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Last year's schedule was soft, but it also did include Alabama, USC, and Iowa. The D was stout by anyone's standard.

Badger fan here. This write-up is great to look at. I think my response would be that the Badger defense gets consistently underrated. It was the #1 scoring defense in the NATION last year. Granted, we are breaking in a new DC, but most of the starters are back and last week was pretty similar looking to last year. If anything, it looks like the current DC is doing less substituting play-to-play, so hurry up offenses may cause less confusion for personnel patterns. If you're able to score like you describe, then indeed you could win. I think you're underestimating the opponent, however.

Madison on gameday is more of a bar-turned-into-outdoor-beer-garden scene. Camp Randall parking is mostly in the neighborhoods surrounding the stadium, and while there are some people who are tailgating in the neighborhoods - I assume hosted by the people who live there - most of the pageantry is at the bars. If you've never been to Madison and may never visit again, there are some things you might want to do. There is a whole board on the Wisconsin scout site devoted to tailgating and visiting Madison http://www.scout.com/college/wisconsin/forums/2562-tailgating. The pinned topic at the top is a good start. Watch out for a bit of foul language and taunting on the Brees Terrace side of Camp Randall - it's a big college house party scene, and the taunting is actually meant to be good-natured, but not everyone knows that going in, I wouldn't really expect much animus for this game, however, but it's happened before.