Wisconsin comes off to back-to-back 7-6 seasons and they come into the year unranked for the first time since 2016. This isn't a team of a great running back, great offensive line, and solid defense that ruled over the years. Wisconsin returns 15 starters from last year including four on the offensive line but they're replacing quarterback with Tyler Van Dyke a transfer out of Miami. They didn’t blow out anybody last year either, and 24 is a huge number they didn’t cover last year. Hayden Wolff showed some life last year is the starter at quarterback for Western Michigan. They've got 15 starters back and I expect them to hang tough. Western Michigan covers.

I was holding out hoping for 58 or 58.5 but now am seeing this dropping a bit at some books, so we better jump. While Western is clearly the best academic school in the country (I might be biased), it probably isn't scoring more than 13 points in Madison. Meanwhile, seven starters are back on a WMU defense that also added a handful of power conference transfers, so I don't see run-heavy Wisconsin topping 44 points. UW wasn't very good last year offensively in Coach Luke Fickell's first season and now he breaks in a new starting QB in Tyler Van Dyke -- who was very inconsistent at Miami -- and new No. 1 running back with Braelon Allen in the NFL.