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Football: Badgers return to practice Monday with eyes on Michigan as active COVID-19 cases in program drops to five

In a stunning turn of fortune, the University of Wisconsin football team woke up Monday beginning to shift their focus of limiting and recovering from COVID-19 to ordinary game preparations and practice ahead of their scheduled contest against Michigan in Ann Arbor Saturday, Nov. 14.

As recent as last week, the Wisconsin football program had 27 active COVID-19 cases, including 15 players and 12 staff members. Wednesday, Nov. 4, whispers on social media began to surface with speculations that in the coming days, Athletic Director Barry Alvarez and his team would announce the cancellation of the rest of the Badgers season.