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Which five teams have the potential to go from good to elite?

- Wisconsin

All the Badgers have done is win 40 games in four years with four straight trips to Florida on New Year's Day, with a 2-2 record against the SEC, but they still don't get much in the way of respect. Maybe that's because they needed everything in the bag to get by lousy teams like UNLV, Citadel, Iowa and Minnesota and it's hard for any Big Ten team to get any national love. The team was battered by major injuries on both sides of the ball, and now it comes back loaded with a tremendous stable of running backs, a nice offensive line, and a no-name defense that'll be really, really good with LB Jonathan Casillas, FS Shane Carter and DE Matt Shaughnessy among the Big Ten's three best players.

Easy schedules have never really mattered to Wisconsin, who always seems to play down to its competition, but this year's slate isn't bad if the team can get by a nasty early road trip to Fresno State. If you're going to play at Michigan, this is the year, while the other three road dates are at Iowa, Michigan State and Indiana. Ohio State, Penn State and Illinois have to come to Madison.