The University of Wisconsin football program heads into the 2026 offseason with something far more urgent than a typical offseason checklist.
After a 4–8 season that exposed the gap between where the Badgers are and where they want to be, Luke Fickell and his coaching staff are now staring down a transfer portal window that will go a long way toward determining whether this rebuild gains enough traction to continue or if it drifts further off course and forces another reset.
The transfer portal officially opens on Jan. 2, and every Power Four program knows what’s coming.