BuckAround: A Wisconsin Badgers Football Podcast

The title pretty much explains the premise of this one.

Max gets a cold at least twice per year. Don't let him try and convince you otherwise.

Rich and Max Look back at what they learned from spring practice 2026

Rich and Max give their thoughts on the first ⅓ of Spring Practice and talk about the string of recent commitments for the Badgers.

Don't let sports make you mad

Rich and Max take a look at Colton Joseph's 2025 season at Old Dominion and talk about how he fits in with Wisconsin for 2026

Rich and Max discuss the roster post-portal. They talk about it so much they push off breaking down Colton Joseph for next time.

Rich and Max find 5 different ways to say Luke Fickell has a lot to prove this year.

Rich and Max talk about the roster turnover in the transfer portal.

Early portal talk, coaching conjecture, and partially informed discussions of NIL. This episode has it all!

Late show this week but Rich and Max cover the Minnesota game (quickly!) and talk about Luke Fickell's roster building vision elucidated at his National Signing Day Press Conference.

Rich and Max discuss the Badgers 27-10 win over Illinois. Max is happy. Rich wants to temper your expectations.

Rich and Max discuss the 31-7 loss to Indiana and Max gets really angry at the end.

Lots of talk of field storming and cave crickets. A stupid game deserves a really stupid show.

Rich is joined by special guest Jim Polzin to discuss the latest Badger loss and give his thoughts on the state of the program, NIL, and why football is different than basketball.

Rich and Max basically record the same show as last week except they talk about a letter from Chris McIntosh

Let's just play your voicemails and vent some rage

It's time for media beefs and cannibal rats on Russian ghost ships.

Rich and Max talk about the state of the 2-2 Badgers during the bye week. Optimism wouldn't be a word to use to describe this episode.

Max is joined by a special guest host to discuss what may be the beginning of the end of the Luke Fickell era.

Rich and Max discuss the Badger's 38-14 loss in Tuscaloosa. It wasn't fun.

Rich and Max discuss the Badgers 2nd win of the season with fewer cat comparisons.

Rich and Max discuss the 17-0 win over Miami of Ohio. And we learn a lot about Rich's pets.

Rich and Max get ready for Miami of Ohio and discuss spices. Max does not like Rosemary

Rich and Max recorded in the morning. You may need to set this one at 1x speed to account for the coffee.

Camp seems to be moving along in an unremarkable fasion but the show gets weird. And we have listener questions!

How do the Badgers exceed expectations this year? What's the roadmap to falling short. Rich and Max give their thoughts. Also, Big Ten Media days are going on and there's nothing interesting to talk about there at all.

There is a lot going on with the defense we don't exectly get at this point.

Colten Bartholowem of Badger Extra joins the podcast to give his take from spring.

It's time to predict the future! And to finally get around to answering a listener question that's been around for a month...

The Spring Showcase had a special guest who shares his thoughts on the day.

Tanner Koziol. Kevin Heywood. Is there light in the darkness? The BSAPM makes a return!

Rich and Max talk a little spring practice and then dig into a 3 month old listener question

Rich and Max are basically looking for the same stuff...no idea if this is good or bad.

Rich and Max discuss the Luke Fickell media blitz and talk about what DAnny O'Neil brings to the Badgers

Watching Maryland's offensive line stumble through 11 games was troubling.

It's time to find a new team to root for.

Lots of insane conjecture about the Xavier Lucas situation and discussions of the comings and goings in the transfer portal.

Ryan Andersen from the Dairy Raid joins the podcast to talk through Phil Longo's time in Madison and looks ahead to what Jeff Grimes might mean for the offense in 2025.

More like the Leaden Buckys after 2024, amirite? There was a Ball-Ratzlaff award winner however.

Rich and Max briefly discuss the hire of Jeff Grimes as OC but focus most of their attention on roster management in the transfer portal era.

It's Early signing day and we don't talk about it once. I'm not kidding. You've been warned.

People are in a bad place right now.

We talked about Phil Longo in this epsiode quite a bit for reasons you can probably deduce.

There was a lot of cursing on the TalkAround. It was warranted. Also, we had a guest host this week!

So I guess we have to talk about the QB situation again. But we put it off for as long as we can before we actually do.

No team ever looks good scoring 23 points...or can they?

Have the Badgers truly turned a corner?

Purdue is a dumpster fire if the dumpster was first filled with dog poop

Most people never thought they were winning this game, why are they so upset?