2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team


The 2020 Wisconsin Badgers football team represents the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Badgers are led by sixth-year head coach Paul Chryst and compete as members of the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They play their home games at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin.

Previous season

The 2019 team started the year nineteenth in the pre-season AP Poll. The team finished with two regular season losses, and were invited to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 2012 to play Oregon. The Badgers lost the game and finished the year at 10–4.

Offseason

2020 NFL Draft

Transfers

Preseason

Spring game

The Badgers spring scrimmage and practice on April 18, 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Award watch lists

Listed in the order that they were released
Davey O'Brien AwardJack CoanQBSR
Chuck Bednarik AwardJack SanbornLBJR
Doak Walker AwardNakia WatsonRBSO
John Mackey AwardJake FergusonTEJR
Butkus AwardJack SanbornLBJR
Jim Thorpe AwardEric BurrellSSR
Outland TrophyCole Van LanenOLSR

Preseason Big ten Poll

Schedule

Games cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

The Badgers 2020 schedule originally consisted of six home games, four away games, and two neutral site games. The Badgers would have hosted two of its three non-conference games at Camp Randall; the first on September 12 against Southern Illinois from the Missouri Valley, then the next week on September 19, playing Appalachian State, a member of the Sun Belt Conference. The last non-conference matchup on October 3 was a primetime game guaranteed to air on NBC against Notre Dame as part of the Fighting Irish's neutral-site Shamrock Series at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, with Notre Dame as the designated home team.
The Big Ten Conference cancelled all non-conference games on July 9 due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the day before, the November 7 away game at Northwestern was moved from the neutral site Wrigley Field in Chicago back to Ryan Field in Evanston. Both Notre Dame and Wisconsin plan to fulfill their contract and play the Lambeau Field game in a subsequent season.

Current schedule

In Big Ten Conference play, Wisconsin will play all members of the West Division, and draws Indiana, Michigan, and Maryland from the East Division.
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Roster

Rankings

Game summaries

Indiana

at Michigan

Minnesota

at Maryland

Illinois

vs Northwestern

at Purdue

Nebraska

at Iowa

Awards and honors