It’s kind of a shame that Wisconsin/Minnesota doesn’t get as much national coverage as some of the other big time rivalry week games. The battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe has everything you would want in terms of storylines!
The two teams play in close proximity to each other, the two teams don’t like each other, the fans definitely don’t like each other (despite being basically the same), the game has been played forever, there is a killer trophy involved, it snows during the game sometimes, recently it has Big Ten West implications...what more could you want?