Gopher Football Articles

Gopher Football After barely escaping 1-AA North Dakota State last Saturday on a last second blocked field goal, the Gophers are rewarded with a road trip to play the top ranked team in the nation, the Ohio State Buckeyes. If that in itself weren’t scary enough, the Gophers will be playing this game without tight […] READ MORE

Gopher Football Big Ten Update With Michigan’s 20-6 victory over Iowa on Saturday, it has almost become assured that Michigan and Ohio State will both be 11-0 when the two teams meet on November 18th in Columbus. Ohio State plays the worst 3 teams in the conference (Minnesota, Illinois & Northwestern) before then and Michigan […] READ MORE

Gopher Football Nearly 63,000 fans showed for the first game against North Dakota State in nearly 70 years. Even though the Bison fans were outnumbered by about 5-to-1, they were far more vocal. NDSU fans stood and cheered throughout the game and Gopher fans were largely quiet as church mice. The fan intensity definitely transferred […] READ MORE

Gopher Football After a dismal last couple of weeks, the Gopher football team comes back home to take on the Division 1-AA and new border rival North Dakota State Bison. It’s a game the Gophers should win, but an 0-4 start to the Big Ten season has some Gopher fans worried. No matter how the […] READ MORE

Gopher Football Big Ten update It was an exciting week in the Big Ten once again (at least if you aren’t a Gopher fan). One of the two really big games in the nation in my opinion was Michigan at Penn State. The Wolverines, despite not having Mario Manningham, went into Happy Valley and came […] READ MORE

Gopher Football Not surprisingly, the Gophers had a hard time recovering from last week’s 28-27 overtime loss. Wisconsin thumped them today 48-12. The game was a blowout the whole way with the Badgers jumping out to an early 14-0 lead and a 28-3 halftime bulge. Minnesota is now 0-4 in the Big Ten and 0-3 […] READ MORE

Gopher Football The Gophers head to Madison on Saturday to take on the 5-1 Wisconsin Badgers. The Gophers are coming off a devastating 28-27 OT loss to Penn State and Wisconsin is coming off a blowout win against Northwestern and Indiana. Time is running out for the Gophers to be bowl eligible, and this game […] READ MORE

Gopher Football There were some major shakeups in the polls this week, with none bigger than #2 Auburn losing to previously unranked Arkansas. After eeking out a win against South Carolina last week, Auburn saw it’s luck run out agains the Razorbacks. Speaking of Arkansas, their only loss of the season so far was in […] READ MORE

Gopher Football In the Gophers’ three Big Ten games so far this year they have battled from behind with a shot to win late. This time it looked like the Gophers had the win in overtime. Instead the Gophers end up 0-3 in conference play. The overtime play that was the killer was a fourth […] READ MORE

Gopher Football The Gophers try to get in the winning column in Big Ten play on Saturday morning when Penn State comes to town. Penn State has not won in Minnesota since a 27-17 victory in 1998, with Minnesota having won 25-16 (2000) and 16-7 (2004) since that time. Even though Penn State did bring […] READ MORE