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per Randy:
When the Gophers take to the Ohio Stadium field Saturday, they will be playing the third-ranked Buckeyes, the reigning Big Ten champions with serious College Football Playoff aspirations.
The Gophers? Well, they’ve given up 90 points in back-to-back Big Ten losses and enter the game as 29½-point underdogs. Quite simply, a Minnesota win would go down as the upset of the season in college football.
“You can get caught up in the big stadium and all the fans and that, and just them being the No. 3 team in the nation right now,” Gophers senior linebacker Blake Cashman said. “But you’ve just got to forget about that and understand they’re a football team, just like us. They sweat just like we do, they bleed like we do, they went through two-a-days just like we did.”
With that approach, Cashman has some kindred spirits on the 2000 and 1981 Gophers squads, which were the only ones to beat Ohio State in the past 40 meetings. What some of the key figures from those teams remember is belief turning to confidence, then to victory.
“We put the time in to win,” said Mike Hohensee, the quarterback who engineered the Gophers’ 35-31 victory in 1981 at Memorial Stadium by passing for 444 yards and five touchdowns. “We didn’t just go out there and try hard. We tried hard with a purpose.”
Glen Mason coached the 2000 Gophers to a 29-17 victory at Ohio State. “On any given day, if you have a bunch of guys who play together better as a team, you can beat anybody, even if they have more talent,” he said. “That was a classic example.”
http://www.startribune.com/two-brig...er-ohio-state-in-the-past-50-years/497312751/
Go Gophers!!
When the Gophers take to the Ohio Stadium field Saturday, they will be playing the third-ranked Buckeyes, the reigning Big Ten champions with serious College Football Playoff aspirations.
The Gophers? Well, they’ve given up 90 points in back-to-back Big Ten losses and enter the game as 29½-point underdogs. Quite simply, a Minnesota win would go down as the upset of the season in college football.
“You can get caught up in the big stadium and all the fans and that, and just them being the No. 3 team in the nation right now,” Gophers senior linebacker Blake Cashman said. “But you’ve just got to forget about that and understand they’re a football team, just like us. They sweat just like we do, they bleed like we do, they went through two-a-days just like we did.”
With that approach, Cashman has some kindred spirits on the 2000 and 1981 Gophers squads, which were the only ones to beat Ohio State in the past 40 meetings. What some of the key figures from those teams remember is belief turning to confidence, then to victory.
“We put the time in to win,” said Mike Hohensee, the quarterback who engineered the Gophers’ 35-31 victory in 1981 at Memorial Stadium by passing for 444 yards and five touchdowns. “We didn’t just go out there and try hard. We tried hard with a purpose.”
Glen Mason coached the 2000 Gophers to a 29-17 victory at Ohio State. “On any given day, if you have a bunch of guys who play together better as a team, you can beat anybody, even if they have more talent,” he said. “That was a classic example.”
http://www.startribune.com/two-brig...er-ohio-state-in-the-past-50-years/497312751/
Go Gophers!!