While it would have been nice to have brought Floyd home to the Twin Cities and freed him from his 4-year captivity in the land to the south, the Gopher loss last Saturday does do one thing to make Big Ten West followers intrigued. It sets up a one-game winner-take-all Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe in Minneapolis on November 30th. Rarely does the schedule work out in such a fashion to have the top two teams in the division play each other on the last day of the regular season with the division on the line. And on top of that, the two teams facing each other are the two teams that participate in the most-played rivalry in FBS football.
Big Ten West Review Week 12 Edition
