The Wisconsin Badgers, fresh off a 28-14 Week 1 win over Western Michigan, have turned the page to their Week 2 matchup with South Dakota.
Head coach Luke Fickell met with the media on Monday to preview the upcoming contest, plus reflect back on his team’s performance against the Broncos and why the Badgers struggled to pull away.
“Obviously every game you go into, you got a plan. And there are some things that, yeah, you don’t want to do everything in Week 1. But you also don’t know exactly what it is that you’re gonna get,” Fickell explained. “The thing that probably changed as we got into the game as much as anything is, whether we had some other things that we didn’t end up doing, we got a lot of things that we didn’t expect. And credit to them. Defensively they changed up a lot from what we had expected they would be in. And offensively, they really did a lot of different things that we didn’t expect to see as well. Which limits you.”
Fickell dispelled the notion that his staff was saving its true game plan for Week 3’s matchup with Alabama. He went on to sum up why he thought the game remained competitive into the fourth quarter, despite Wisconsin having the clear talent and skill advantage: