Packers roster cuts, Wisconsin football opener and IndyCar highlight the week ahead for Wisconsin sports Aug. 26-Sept. 1

Here is the look ahead at Milwaukee-area and other Wisconsin sports events for the week of Aug. 26.

Roster cuts

When: 3 p.m. Tuesday

What to know: NFL teams must cut their rosters from 90 to 53.

More: Predicting the Green Bay Packers 53-man roster: Kicker, backup quarterback still in flux

San Francisco at Milwaukee

When: 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. Wednesday, 1:10 p.m. Thursday (all televised on Bally Sports Wisconsin)

What to know: Perhaps the Brewers will luck out and not have to face one of the most dominant starting pitchers in the second half in San Francisco left-hander Blake Snell.

Milwaukee at Cincinnati

When: 11:40 a.m. (BSWis and MLBN) and 5:40 p.m. Friday (BSWis), 6:15 p.m. Saturday (Fox), 11:10 a.m. Sunday (BSWis)

What to know: Anything can, and usually does, happen in the bandbox that is Great American Ball Park. Opening with a doubleheader, the Brewers are going to need to pitch well in this series.

Western Michigan at Wisconsin

When: 8 p.m. Friday (FS1)

What to know: The Badgers, coming off a 7-6 season under first-year coach Luke Fickell, open the season against a Broncos team that went 4-8 last season.

WISCONSIN BADGERS VOLLEYBALL

When: Sunday and Monday (Sept. 2) at Fiserv Forum.

Schedule: UW vs. Texas, 11:30 a.m. Sunday (Fox); Minnesota vs. Stanford, 2 p.m. Sunday (FS1); UW vs. Stanford, 4 p.m. Monday (Fox); Minnesota vs. Texas, 6:30 p.m. Monday (FS1).

What to know: The Badgers, whose season ended in the national semifinals with a loss to Texas, will aim for revenge when they face the Longhorns in the first match of the event in Milwaukee.

MOTOR SPORTS

Crandon Off Road World Championships

When: Thursday-Sunday

What to know: The Wisconsin Northwoods hosts the biggest pro and amateur event in short-course off-road racing for trucks, buggies and side-by sides, as it has since 1970.

More: How the ‘Baja of the Northwoods’ changed a tiny Wisconsin town and became the center of a sport’s universe

IndyCar weekend at Milwaukee Mile

When: Milwaukee Hy-Vee 250s at 5:05 p.m. Saturday (Peacock) and 2 p.m. Sunday (USA, Peacock).

What to know: The open-wheel cars that have been so important to the history of the track return after an eight-year absence for a pair of 250-mile races.

First games of seasons: Tuesday for cross country, boys soccer, volleyball; Thursday-Friday for 8-player football