Dear Andy: Is Wisconsin stuck? Could the Spartans miss a bowl? Will a Pac-12 team make the Playoff?

There’s a B1G return to an previous place from a well-recognized face on Saturday, and you’ve got questions …

Badger fan right here: Because the years go by, it feels increasingly just like the 2017 Orange Bowl recreation was the high-water mark for the Paul Chryst period in Madison. That was a crew on the rise who received a New 12 months’s Six Sport, and it led to a Rose Bowl look after the 2019 season. The outcomes have been combined/disappointing since then, particularly within the improvement of Graham Mertz. Is there any state of affairs the place the Badgers would/ought to transfer on from Chryst? Who would the choice even be?

It seems like this system is caught, however I’m undecided as to what route they need to go in, or if it might actually change in any respect. Is the present state of this system (win 7/8 video games, possibly compete within the Huge Ten West) nearly as good as it might get for Wisconsin soccer? — Joe

It’s becoming that Joe asks this query on the week former Badgers coach Bret Bielema brings his Illinois crew to Camp Randall Stadium. There’s a variety of cosmic power swirling. There’s the coach who left for what he thought have been greener pastures (however weren’t) returning with a crew inbuilt Wisconsin’s picture. There’s the truth that Chryst can tie Bielema’s win mark at Wisconsin (68) by beating Bielema’s crew on Saturday. And there shall be a variety of questions if someway Bielema and the Illini handle to out-Wisconsin the Badgers.

Joe feels like a variety of the Wisconsin followers who’ve been debating within the feedback beneath the tales written by The Athletic’s Wisconsin beat author Jesse Temple.