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Big Ten · 2026 season

The story so far

Wisconsin fans spent the season fixated on Luke Fickell's job, swinging from firing calls after Notre Dame to euphoria at Penn State and a field-rush against USC. The 0-30 shutout at Iowa erased that goodwill, leaving a 5-3 fanbase humiliated and escaping to Brewers baseball.

From Reddit fan threads · through Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 1 · 5-3

Season misery
56Uneasy
Worst week
94Wk 7 · Oct 12–18
Best week
10Wk 4 · Sep 21–27
Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 6: misery 77 (Miserable) · 0-1Wk 2 · Sep 7–13: misery 77 (Miserable) · 1-0Wk 3 · Sep 14–20: misery 53 (Meh) · 1-0Wk 4 · Sep 21–27: misery 10 (Euphoric) · 1-0Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4: misery 23 (Euphoric) · 1-0Wk 7 · Oct 12–18: misery 94 (Despair) · 0-1Wk 8 · Oct 19–25: misery 33 (Content) · 1-0Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 1: misery 84 (Despair) · 0-1Wk 0Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8Wk 9
Weekly misery, Monday to Sunday. Above the line is miserable; below is happy.

Storylines

what fans talked about, week by week
Season-long

  • Firing calls dominated from the opening loss through flat blowouts, Penn State and USC briefly warmed fans, but the UCLA timeout decision and the Iowa shutout revived demands that he go.

    “I feel like his seat is even hotter now.”

    ▲ 236Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 1

    Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 6 ›Wk 3 · Sep 14–20 ›Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 1 ›
Kept coming up
Emerging

angry / anxioushappy / hopefulsplitbigger dot = louder

  1. 84Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 10-1›
  2. 33Wk 8 · Oct 19–251-0›
  3. 94Wk 7 · Oct 12–180-1›
  4. —Wk 6 · Oct 5–11
  5. 23Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 41-0›
  6. 10Wk 4 · Sep 21–271-0›
  7. 53Wk 3 · Sep 14–201-0›
  8. 77Wk 2 · Sep 7–131-0›
  9. 77Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 60-1›
  10. —Wk 0 · Aug 24–30