Five weeks ago, when the 2025 Wisconsin Badgers season appeared dead and buried, The Axe Game shimmered weakly in the distance as a relative afterthought. Fast forward to the present, and Badgers/Gophers feels like the biggest moment of Wisconsin’s once lost season–a handsome capper to a Fickell redemption arc that nobody saw coming.

Wisconsin football hits the road for its 2025 regular season finale on Saturday afternoon. The opponent: the arch-rival Minnesota Golden Gophers.

After taking down Wisconsin 24-7 last year to win the Paul Bunyan Axe, the Minnesota Gophers will try to retain the trophy Saturday at Huntington Bank Stadium with kickoff set for 2:30 p.m.

Following its fifth 20-point victory of the season, and the first over a power-conference opponent, Wisconsin looks for its third straight holiday tournament ti

The Wisconsin Badgers take on the James Madison Dukes at Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. The teams meet Saturday for the first time this season.

The Wisconsin Badgers football team beat the Illinois Fighting Illini at Madison's Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday, Nov. 22.

Key matchup: Wisconsin run game vs. Gophers rush defense. The Badgers ran for 209 yards and three scores against the Illini, while an unsound Gophers defense gave up 220 and two TDs to the Wildcats.

Wisconsin had three players with 12-plus kills as the 10th-ranked Badgers easily swept No. 18 Minnesota to conclude the regular season.

On Thursday afternoon, the TCU Horned Frogs shocked the college basketball world by knocking off the defending national champions, the No. 10 Florida Gators, by a score of 84-80. With a three-headed offensive attack from David Punch,