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per the Daily:
Saturday will mark the 128th meeting Minnesota between Wisconsin. It is the longest-running rivalry game in all of college football.
However, for the past 25 years, it hasn't felt much like a rivalry. In the last 25 games between the Gophers and the Badgers, the Gophers are 4-21. They haven't beaten Wisconsin since 2003, a 14-game losing streak.
Head coach P.J. Fleck is well aware of the Gophers' past struggles, but says he isn't concerned about it.
"We take one day at a time in our culture, we want to be better today than we were yesterday. We want to respond to whatever result we get in the right way. Just one game is not going to be able to turn everything," Fleck said.
One game may not turn their culture around, but a win this year would mean an opportunity to continue their season and play in a bowl game, the first in Fleck's tenure as head coach.
While Fleck may be bullish about the implications of one game, the players voiced their desire to come away with a win.
"It's something we haven't done here in a very long time ... I can't even remember the Gophers ever having [the axe], I was so young," said linebacker Blake Cashman, a Minnesota native. "It would be a thrill to come back to campus and see all our fans and students very excited. That will be an experience and a moment that we will get to share with them."
http://www.mndaily.com/article/2018/11/s-border-rivalry-not-so-much-for-gophers-in-recent-years
Go Gophers!!
Saturday will mark the 128th meeting Minnesota between Wisconsin. It is the longest-running rivalry game in all of college football.
However, for the past 25 years, it hasn't felt much like a rivalry. In the last 25 games between the Gophers and the Badgers, the Gophers are 4-21. They haven't beaten Wisconsin since 2003, a 14-game losing streak.
Head coach P.J. Fleck is well aware of the Gophers' past struggles, but says he isn't concerned about it.
"We take one day at a time in our culture, we want to be better today than we were yesterday. We want to respond to whatever result we get in the right way. Just one game is not going to be able to turn everything," Fleck said.
One game may not turn their culture around, but a win this year would mean an opportunity to continue their season and play in a bowl game, the first in Fleck's tenure as head coach.
While Fleck may be bullish about the implications of one game, the players voiced their desire to come away with a win.
"It's something we haven't done here in a very long time ... I can't even remember the Gophers ever having [the axe], I was so young," said linebacker Blake Cashman, a Minnesota native. "It would be a thrill to come back to campus and see all our fans and students very excited. That will be an experience and a moment that we will get to share with them."
http://www.mndaily.com/article/2018/11/s-border-rivalry-not-so-much-for-gophers-in-recent-years
Go Gophers!!