Michigan football vs. Wisconsin preview: Behind Enemy Lines
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Wolverines and Badgers meet this weekend for the first time since 2021, and a lot has changed in Madison since then.
Badger247's Nick Osen joins "Behind Enemy Lines" to explain why Luke Fickell has struggled, and he breaks down what Michigan should expect from an injury-plagued offense, a stout run defense and more as Wisconsin desperately seeks a statement win at the Big House.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to a new episode of Behind Enemy Lines. I'm your host |
| 0:04.8 | Alejandro Suniga here from the Michigan Insider, Michigan.247Sports.com. On Behind Enemy Lines, |
| 0:10.8 | we take a close look at the Michigan football team's upcoming opponent with a beat reporter who |
| 0:14.9 | covers that program. This week, the Wolverines are hosting the Wisconsin Badgers. It's the first |
| 0:20.7 | time the two programs have met since 2021. It's the first time the two programs |
| 0:21.6 | have met since 2021. It's going to be a noon kickoff, a maze out at the big house. |
| 0:27.0 | Wisconsin presents an opportunity, a stout run defense, a struggling offense, and an offensive |
| 0:33.2 | line that has a lot of new faces on it. We're going to dive into all of that, so let's go ahead and get started as we go behind |
| 0:40.1 | enemy lines on the Wisconsin Badgers. |
| 0:43.1 | Our guest for this week's episode of Behind Enemy Lines is Nick O'Son, who covers the |
| 0:47.6 | Wisconsin Badgers for Badger 24-7, part of our 24-7 sports network. |
| 0:52.1 | Nick, let's go ahead and dive right into the question. |
| 0:55.0 | Everyone outside of Madison is thinking about this Wisconsin program under Luke Fickle. |
| 1:00.0 | Michigan hasn't seen them since 2021. |
| 1:02.5 | Obviously, started paying closer attention to them this year, knowing that this matchup was coming up. |
| 1:07.8 | And I was watching that Maryland game a couple weeks ago. |
| 1:10.6 | And A, it was a 27 to 10 loss |
| 1:13.5 | but B you just saw the reaction from the crowd from the folks at camp randall it seems like whatever |
| 1:21.4 | luke fickle had planned for wisconsin hasn't necessarily panned out in year three. Where is he in this tenure? What's he |
| 1:32.0 | trying to build? And why hasn't it necessarily worked out to the level that I think most people |
| 1:37.0 | expected when the hot commodity out of Cincinnati was hired out in Madison. |
| 1:46.6 | Yeah, Alejandro, thank you so much for having me. |
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