Much has been made about the potential status of Nebraska's slated home finale on Dec. 12 against Minnesota.Â
The Gophers had to cancel a game last weekend against Wisconsin and canceled this weekend against Northwestern due to an uptick in positive COVID-19 cases within their program. As of Monday, Minnesota had 47 positive cases (26 staff, 21 players) since Nov. 19.Â
 which aired on Fox 9 in Minneapolis this week, Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck said this week that his program just got back to work Wednesday in outdoor-only, small-group conditioning workouts.Â
Minnesota is hoping to be back to practice this week, which would mean good things for the viability of playing Dec. 12 at Memorial Stadium against Nebraska.Â
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Of course, nothing is certain at this point.Â
"You just never know when we are going to officially play again," he said. "We plan on playing against Nebraska. There will be a lot of guys out for that game, based on that 21-day window, but again, we plan on playing."