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3 teams on Wisconsin Badgers schedule are projected to make 2025 College Football Playoff, with more on the fringe

The Wisconsin Badgers will stand in the way of multiple teams' paths to the College Football Playoff in 2025. It's up to Luke Fickell to play spoiler and keep them out of the postseason.
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Sep 14, 2024; Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Wisconsin Badgers head coach Luke Fickell is shown during the first quarter of a game against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Camp Randall Stadium.
Sep 14, 2024; Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Wisconsin Badgers head coach Luke Fickell is shown during the first quarter of a game against the Alabama Crimson Tide at Camp Randall Stadium. | Mark Hoffman/USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images

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The Wisconsin Badgers aren't just playing some good teams on their 2025 schedule. They're playing some of the very best teams in the country.

When the year is said and done, Luke Fickell could face as many as three teams that go on to make the college football playoff.

CBS Sports' Brad Crawford put together a post-spring projection of which teams could make the CFP in 2025, and three of them are on Wisconsin's schedule.

He has the No. 1 seed as the defending champion Ohio State Buckeyes, who the Badgers host at Camp Randall on Oct. 18.

The week after that game, Wisconsin will be on the road to play the Oregon Ducks, who are an 8 seed on CBS Sports' projection.

The Alabama Crimson Tide are No. 7, and they host UW for the third game of the season on Sept. 13.

Wisconsin will also play an Indiana Hoosiers team that made the playoff last year, and the Illinois Fighting Illini are expected to make a push for the postseason too, playing the Badgers along the way.

Wins over Wisconsin will be important parts of those teams trying to convince the selection committee where they should be seeded in the CFP.

It's up to Fickell and his team to play spoiler and keep their Big Ten rivals out of the seeding with some upsets in the regular season.

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LORIN COX

Lorin Cox is the managing editor of Wisconsin Badgers on SI. He has been covering Badgers sports since 2014, when he was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin. He previously wrote for the Wisconsin State Journal, NBC Sports Chicago and USA Today Sports Media Group, and he is a former analyst for Pro Football Focus.

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