Great Plains Gopher
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Gophers finished no. 1 as AP national champion in 1940. Four of the teams they defeated also finished in the AP top ten, including Nebraska's Rose Bowl team and Heisman winner Tom Harmon's Michigan (he was stopped three times inside the Gopher five yard line in Michigan's only loss of the season).