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Urban Meyer thinks teams on Wisconsin Badgers schedule are tougher than SEC schools

Former Ohio State and Florida head coach Urban Meyer believes the top teams in the Big Ten have surpassed the best of the SEC. The Wisconsin Badgers face both on their 2025 schedule.
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Oct 15, 2016; Madison, WI, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer exits Camp Randall Stadium prior to the game against the Wisconsin Badgers.
Oct 15, 2016; Madison, WI, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer exits Camp Randall Stadium prior to the game against the Wisconsin Badgers. | Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images

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The Wisconsin Badgers have a really difficult schedule for the 2025 season.

Urban Meyer thinks it would be a little easier for them if they played in the SEC instead.

The former Ohio State and Florida head coach was a guest on the Another Dooley Noted Podcast, where he said he believes the top teams in the Big Ten have surpassed the best of the SEC.

"You know what the SEC's done? It’s raised the level,” Meyer said on the podcast. “But the Big Ten has passed the SEC, at the upper part. If you would have told me that 10 years ago, I would’ve said it’s not even close."

He wasn't ready to say the Big Ten conference as a whole is now better than the entirety of the SEC, but all you have to do is look at the recent National Championships for Ohio State and Michigan to see which conference is succeeding more.

This year's expanded College Football Playoff had four teams from the Big Ten (Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Indiana) and three from the SEC (Texas, Georgia, Tennessee).

The problem for Wisconsin is that they face three of those in-conference playoff teams on their schedule.

They also face a historic SEC powerhouse on the schedule in Alabama, but the Crimson Tide's drop-off last season speaks to Meyers point about that conference as a whole.

Luke Fickell can't escape the challenges of either league right now, and it's clear his Badgers will be tested as much as any team in the country in 2025.

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Lorin Cox
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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