The No. 12 (CFP) Wisconsin Badgers (9-2 overall, 6-2 B1G) are in Minneapolis and ready to do battle with the No. 8 Minnesota Golden Gophers (10-1 overall, 7-1 B1G) for the right to go to Indianapolis and represent the B1G West in the B1G Title Game. The winner also gets Paul Bunyan’s Axe and a year of lording their accomplishment over their neighbor.
The stakes haven’t been this high in an Axe game in years and years.
Minnesota’s only loss of the season came at Iowa, which is a place that just about every highly ranked team loses, and their only good win came against Penn State a few weeks ago.