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Way-too-early college football Top 25 rankings show just how hard Wisconsin Badgers' 2025 schedule will be

Seven of the Badgers' opponents could be ranked in the Top 25 to start the 2025 season
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Wisconsin offensive lineman Joe Brunner (56) help running back Tawee Walker (3) move the pile during the first quarter of their game against Alabama Saturday, September 14, 2024 at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin offensive lineman Joe Brunner (56) help running back Tawee Walker (3) move the pile during the first quarter of their game against Alabama Saturday, September 14, 2024 at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. | Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

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It's no secret that the Wisconsin Badgers will face an incredibly difficult schedule in 2025.

When the initial Top 25 college football rankings come out this fall, it's going to look even tougher.

Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt put together his own projected Top 25 after spring practices, and more than half of the Badgers 2025 schedule is ranked.

No one will be surprised to see Ohio State at or near the top when the Buckeyes come to Camp Randall on October 18.

Alabama at No. 9 will be the first big test of 2025 for Luke Fickell in Wisconsin's third game of the season.

Only three of UW's Big Ten opponents this season are not ranked in the Top 25 by Klatt.

Maybe by the time teams like Indiana and Illinois face the Badgers later in the season, they won't be ranked, or at least not ranked so high.

But Wisconsin's four game stretch of playing at Michigan, home vs Iowa and Ohio State, and then on the road against Ohio State is going to be brutal.

For better or worse, we'll find out what this year's Badgers team is made of.

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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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