They'll be battling for Paul Bunyan's Axe in 2020 after all.
Less than a month after the Minnesota-Wisconsin football game was called off because of a coronavirus outbreak on the Gopher team, the Big Ten is allowing college football's oldest continuously played rivalry to take place.
When the Big Ten came out with a revised league-only football schedule after nearly canceling the season altogether because of the coronavirus pandemic, each team had eight regular season games scheduled.
Also scheduled was a "Championship Week" crossover game, with teams from the Big Ten west division playing at their corresponding east division counterpart.
That formula became fluid after the Big Ten allowed unbeaten Ohio State to play Northwestern in the league championship game despite playing only five games.
That's one fewer than the limit originally set by the Big Ten for a team to qualify for the title game.
With that exception in the books, momentum grew for the Gophers and Badgers to reschedule their game, with the winner taking Paul Bunyan's Axe.
Kickoff is at 3 on Saturday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison for the 130th meeting in history, barring any more covid outbreaks for either team.
The Gophers and Badgers have played each other in football every year since 1907.
Wisconsin leads the all-time series 61-60 with eight ties after winning last season at TCF Bank Stadium 38-17.
The last time the border rivals met in Madison, the Gophers won 37-15 to snap a 14-game losing streak in the series.