The matchup with Iowa on Saturday was supposed to be a litmus test for the Wisconsin football team. Where are they as a program? After losing to the Hawkeyes in four straight seasons, and in blowout fashion the last two, the Badgers had a chance to show they were back on a level playing field with their rivals.
Instead, we got the exact same thing we’ve seen in recent years: a beatdown.
If you follow the trends of these two programs in the last five seasons and just checked the box score of this game, the 30-0 loss wouldn’t seem like a big surprise.
But this Wisconsin football team has shown signs of life and is a program on the rise, instead of the one we’ve seen the past four seasons. They kept up with Notre Dame in Week 1 before the wheels fell off in the second half, and they beat No. 16 USC convincingly just a week ago.
