Wisconsin Badgers among top schools for this 2026 Texas edge rusher who recently revisited

Luke Fickell and the University of Wisconsin football program are still in contention for an emerging edge rusher from Texas.

Ben Duncum, who plays for Austin Lake Travis, announced Thursday his top eight schools via Instagram. Wisconsin made the cut alongside California, Houston, Kansas State, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma State and BYU.

Duncum's had a busy June thus far, making official visits to Oklahoma State, Wisconsin and Kansas State. He also had set an OV to Kentucky for this upcoming weekend.

Duncum, his mother and brother-in-law were in Madison the weekend of June 13-15.

"I had a great time here," Duncum told Wisconsin Badgers On SI on Sunday. "Did a lot of fun things, coming on a pontoon boat with the coaches, some of the other recruits, too. We had four boats out there. Coach (Luke) Fickell rode up on his jet skis with his kids. It was really personal, really family-orientated. Coaches were doing flips off of boats with us. It was pretty awesome.

"Then we had laser tag and hibachi last night. It was really cool, and then got to hang out with the players a lot also after all our activities."