Wisconsin vs. Indiana 2017 live stream: How to watch online

The Wisconsin Badgers’ defense stands alone as one of the most punishing units in the Big Ten. Their offense, however, leaves some questions to be answered — especially without wideout Jazz Peavy and a hobbled Jonathan Taylor. Can the No. 9 Badgers overcome those losses and stretch their record to 9-0 when they face the Indiana Hoosiers? Kickoff is scheduled for noon ET and will be broadcast live on ABC (live stream).

The Hoosiers have hung with some good teams this fall only to repeatedly fall short. Indiana followed blowouts against top 10 teams Ohio State and Penn State with one-possession defeats against Michigan, Purdue, and Maryland. That means this team is ripe for its first Big Ten win — and Wisconsin would be the kind of high-profile victim that redeems an otherwise disappointing season.

Every Indiana football game is the same, for we are forever stuck in college football purgatory. This is a template, but this one gets revised from Crushing Loss Against Ranked Opponent to Soulbreaking Loss That Pushes Entire Season To The Brink of Failure. I don’t like to be dramatic, and I don’t like to overreact, and I don’t like to blame coaches. An 8-win Indiana season that seemed to be there for the taking a few months prior’s quickly turning into one that could see the Hoosiers at home for the holidays for the first time since 2014.

On paper, the Hoosiers should be an easy “W,” but after Wisconsin struggled to get much-harder-than-they-needed-to-be wins against fellow Big Ten sophisticates Purdue, Maryland, and Illinois, and with big games against Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota on the horizon, this one feels like a trap.

The point of this whole rambling is mostly this: Look for Wisconsin to greatly expand its offense, possibly against Indiana, but most definitely against Iowa, Michigan, and Minnesota. It will make things easier on the players to execute, and will essentially just be concepts and plays the other team doesn’t know to be prepared for. Chryst has orchestrated some fun offenses in the past, and I think this one can be too, just not yet.

“No, I didn’t even know there was a show to be honest with you,” Edwards said. “I just kind of thought it was something that came out.”

Peyton Ramsey and Richard Lagow lit up Maryland last Saturday, combining for 410 passing yards and five touchdowns -- though they needed 62 passes to get there. It will be tough to replicate that against Wisconsin. The Badgers rank No. 1 in the FBS in terms of opposing passer efficiency and 15th in passing yards allowed. That no-fly zone defense should handcuff the Hoosiers Saturday.

The Hoosiers are better than their 3-5 record suggests, and they’ll have the opportunity to take advantage of a Badger offense that has underwhelmed in two of the last three weeks. Indiana will keep this one close in a low-scoring affair, but eventually fall short.