Wisconsin faces SEC power in Action Network bowl prediction for 2024 season

The Action Network’s Brett McMurphy released his final bowl predictions for the 2024 college football season on Monday.

His final postseason picks come with Week 0 set to begin on Saturday.

McMurphy has Wisconsin facing Texas A&M in the Music City Bowl on Dec. 30 in Nashville, Tennessee. While it would mark the Badgers’ 23rd consecutive year in a bowl game, it would certainly be an underwhelming result knowing the dynamic created by the newly expanded 12-team College Football Playoff.

Wisconsin has appeared in the Music City Bowl once before, falling to Auburn 28-14 in December of 2003. Last season’s matchup in the game was between Auburn (6-6) and Maryland (7-5), so that’s roughly where McMurphy expects Wisconsin’s record to fall in the regular season.

Luke Fickell and his squad have a rather challenging schedule in 2024, facing upper-echelon programs including Alabama (home), USC (road), Penn State (home) and Oregon (home). The Badgers enter the season as underdogs in seven games , so McMurphy’s prediction isn’t a slight towards Wisconsin by any means.

Wisconsin’s 2024 campaign lines up to be a memorable one thanks to the high number of of marquee matchups on the schedule.