Gopher Football Articles

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

Gopher Football In the Big Ten … Ohio State once again proved that they are the easy choice as #1 team in the nation after an impressive 38-17 road win at previously ranked #12 Iowa. Ohio State appears to be a team without a major weakness and could be headed to a final week showdown […] READ MORE

Gopher Football The game had the makings of a blowout early, as Michigan scored a touchdown almost effortlessly on the game’s opening drive. It was 14-0 less than a minute into the second quarter with the Wolverines finding plenty of success running and throwing. Minnesota’s defense stiffened from there and the Gophers tried to stage […] READ MORE

Gopher Football The Gophers will try to get back on the winning track as well as defend the Little Brown Jug when the Michigan Wolverines comes to town on Saturday night. The Gophers are coming off a 27-21 loss to Purdue in a game that they could’ve won, while Michigan ran their record to 4-0 […] READ MORE