It’s not like the semiannual grudge match between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers needed higher stakes, but the football gods bestowed them anyway.

Sunday’s afternoon matchup (3:25 pm, Fox) will be just the third time in series history that both the Bears (9-3) and Packers (8-3-1) will face off with plus-.700 winning percentages after at least 12 games, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

To the winner goes the lead in the NFC North and possibly maintaining the top seed in the conference.

Bears second-year quarterback Caleb Williams knows nothing of the sting of the 211-game rivalry. The Packers have won eight of the last nine games at Lambeau, but Williams and the Bears won last season’s finale.

“The games and how the games have gone, and some of the long streaks that ha

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