Late on Tuesday afternoon Jeff Potrykus of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel tweeted out what we all knew might be coming: the Wisconsin Badgers and Minnesota Golden Gophers’ annual battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe was canceled for this coming Saturday.
The Gophers had canceled practice on Tuesday due to potential positive COVID-19 tests from Monday and had been dealing with players missing games all season, so this isn’t a huge shock. Having the game canceled also means that the Badgers are ineligible for the Big Ten Championship game, although they were a long shot to make that game anyway after losing to Northwestern.