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Gopher Football The Minnesota Gophers will host their final game in the inaugural season of TCF Bank Stadium when the South Dakota State Jackrabbits come to town. The Gophers will be trying to do what they could not do last week against Illinois ““ become bowl eligible. To do that they’ll need to take care […] READ MORE
Gopher Football Tim Brewster’s motivational ploy this week is simple: South Dakota State beat Northern Iowa, which gave Iowa fits in week 1. If you don’t prepare to the maximum, we will not win this game! Those few words should be enough for at minimum, the dozens of guys who were here for the 2007 […] READ MORE
Gopher Football The Gophers suffered their first bad loss of the season Saturday when they were upset by Illinois 35-32. It was the first half that did the Gophers in, with Illinois jumping out to a 28-7 lead at halftime. The Gophers would mount a valiant comeback in the second half, but when the game […] READ MORE
Gopher Football University of Minnesota football players Adam Weber and Garrett Brown were honored with Big Ten weekly awards Sunday night. Weber was named the Big Ten Conference Offensive Player of the Week, while Brown shared the league’s Defensive Player of the Week award with Wisconsin’s Chris Borland. Weber became Minnesota’s career-passing yardage record-holder in […] READ MORE
Gopher Football After a day’s worth of watching college football I was starting to get sick of the cheesy Halloween puns. But after the Gopher ““ Michigan State game tonight I don’t know how you can avoid them. The game was full of tricks ““ including a team-record tying 16 penalties by the Gophers ““ […] READ MORE
Gopher Football Gopher head coach Tim Brewster held his weekly press conference today, where he revealed that star Gopher WR Eric Decker will miss the remainder of the regular season with a sprained arch in his foot. Brewster was hopeful that Decker could return for a possible bowl game, but they are unsure yet if […] READ MORE
Gopher Football The Minnesota Gopher football team got whipped Saturday, losing to Penn State 20-0. There have been worse losses on the scoreboard in Gopher history, but I doubt there have been too many games where the Gopher offense has been as thoroughly dominated as they were on Saturday. Through about the first 40 minutes […] READ MORE
Gopher Football A strong case can be made that Saturday’s Gophers opponent, Penn State, is the team we know the least about in the conference, and maybe the nation. Their five wins are against Akron, Syracuse, Temple, Illinois, and Eastern Illinois. The combined record of the four D 1-A schools (Eastern Ill. is a Football […] READ MORE
Gopher Football Former Gophers quarterback Bryan Cupito (’02-’06), the school’s all-time leader in passing yards and touchdown passes, has another rare distinction. He is among only a handful of players to have experienced a bowl game each year he was on campus. Cupito engineered rivalry wins over Iowa, Penn State, and Michigan. He also was […] READ MORE
Gopher Football The Gophers made homecoming a happy one Saturday, defeating the Purdue Boilermakers 35-20. Minnesota looked sloppy early on, allowing Purdue to build a 10-0 lead, but after the Gophers pulled within 10-7 Purdue went into meltdown mode. An INT, fumble, blocked FG for a TD and a 7-yard punt by Purdue helped the […] READ MORE