Coming off an 8-5 season, the University of Wisconsin football team had many skeptics, a legion of people from near and far who thought the program was headed downhill after it had averaged 10 wins a year since 2009.
Five games into this season, most of those skeptics have been converted. Or, in this case, re-converted.
UW is 5-0, ranked eighth and the only team in the nation that hasn't trailed all season. Its offense ranks 11th in scoring and its defense ranks first in just about every major statistical category in the 130-team Football Bowl Subdivision.