Television: Fox with Gus Johnson (in depth), Joel Klatt (investigation).
Radio: AM-920 in Milwaukee and a state network with Matt Lepay (in depth), Mike Lucas (investigation) and Mark Tauscher (examination).
Line: UW by 5½.
Series: Notre Dame drives, 8-6-2. The groups’ last gathering happened in 1964, with the meeting Irish moving to a 31-7 triumph.
Mentors: UW’s Paul Chryst (56-20 seventh season; 76-39, tenth in general) versus Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly (105-39, twelfth season; 276-96-2, 31st season in general).
More:Can Wisconsin end an inconvenient pattern against Notre Dame? Badgers have lost last six games against positioned groups.
More:Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly and UW’s Paul Chryst minimize the possibilities Jack Coan’s experience with the Badgers will be a key factor Saturday
OUR THINGS TO WATCH
STOP THE RUN, PUT COAN UNDER DURESS
Notre Dame is positioned No. 115 broadly in surging offense at 105.7 yards per games. The Badgers need to keep the Irish underneath that number, compel them into clear passing circumstances and afterward jump start on quarterback Jack Coan, who has been sacked multiple times in three games. Coan is finishing 62.6% of his passes for a normal of 276.0 yards per game, with eight scores and two captures on 99 endeavors. Coan is brilliant, experienced and for the most part precise. In any case, UW can constrain a slip-up or two in the event that it produces reliable strain.
GROUND THE IRISH AIR FORCE
The Irish have scored 41, 32 and 27 focuses in their initial three games, in enormous part on account of large plays on offense. They have hit 14 pass plays 20 yards or longer this season. That incorporates four of somewhere around 41 yards. Expect hostile facilitator Tommy Rees to have Coan assault UW’s auxiliary with profound tosses to wide collectors Kevin Austin (eight gets, 154 yards, one TD), Avery Davis (8-49-1) and Braden Lenzy (7-93-0). UW’s protection restricted Penn State to 43 yards on 22 plays in the main portion of the opener yet gave up pass plays of 49, 52 and 42 yards in the second half when the Nittany Lions scored every one of the 16 of their focuses. The Badgers can’t permit Notre Dame beneficiaries to get free as they did Penn State’s in the second 50% of the opener.
MERTZ MUST VALUE THE FOOTBALL
UW’s safeguard has constrained one turnover this season, a final quarter block attempt in Week 2 against Eastern Michigan. Guarded organizer Jim Leonhard and his players have discussed the need to compel more turnovers. The guard should begin removing the ball all the more often yet quarterback Graham Mertz should make a superior showing securing the ball. Mertz tossed two interferences and experienced two bobbles, losing one, in the season-opening misfortune to Penn State. His bungles came at the Nittany Lions’ 8 and 1. The interferences accompanied UW at the Nittany Lions’ 8 and 32. On par with what UW’s guard is, it needs assistance from the offense.
UW MUST MOVE THE CHAINS ON THIRD DOWN
Under Paul Chryst, Wisconsin customarily has included an effective third-down offense. That wasn’t the case last season when UW changed over only 38.0% of its third-down possibilities and the pattern has proceeded through the initial two games this season. The Badgers have changed over only 12 of 33 third-down possibilities (36.4%) up until now, the No. 12 imprint in the Big Ten. They have changed over only 2 of 11 third-and-long possibilities (7 yards or more) and Mertz is only 6 of 14 for 38 yards, with two sacks, and one transformation on third down. Enormous plays make it simpler to drop the ball rapidly down the field and score however UW actually must be better on third down. Notre Dame has restricted its initial three adversaries to a joined 37.0% change rate.
History example
UW gets back to Soldier Field interestingly since the 2011 season when Russell Wilson and his colleagues steered Northern Illinois, 49-7.
The game was at first set to be played on the Northern Illinois grounds in DeKalb yet was moved to Chicago.
A declared horde of 41,068 saw Wilson pass for 347 yards and three scores — two to Nick Toon and one to Jacob Pedersen. James White and Montee Ball scrambled for 91 yards each, with Ball scoring twice and White once.
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