Rutgers just lost a “buy” game to a team that went 0-12 last season. The UMASS Minutemen have never beaten an FBS team since becoming an FBS themselves. That changed with a big upset of Rutgers, and Greg Schiano has egg on his face; Rutgers is now the laughingstock of the Big Ten and the college football world.
For Wisconsin, there’s some buried good news. Really, there are a couple of pieces of good news for the Badgers. The most obvious is that Wisconsin has Rutgers on the schedule. The Badgers face the Scarlet Knights on November 7 at Camp Randall. That was originally considered a swing game on both teams’ schedules. There’s no way that can be true anymore. Rutgers paid over $1.5 million to get beat by UMASS. Ugly.
ESPN Analytics updated its prediction of the game immediately after the Rutgers loss, even though Wisconsin was already the favorite (playing at home). It jumped from a slight favorite to a 72% likelihood for the Badgers to win. Who knows how much that will change by the time the two teams meet. Rutgers has six games between now and then. If they can’t beat UMASS, can they beat any team on their schedule?
Wisconsin has two pieces of good news with Rutgers being embarrassed by UMASS
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