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Gopher Football Will the real Minnesota please stand up? A week after looking like the bottom of the Big Ten barrel, the Gophers looked like world beaters as everything came together in a 45-0 drubbing of Illinois. The defense held the Illini, a team averaging 307 yards per game in Big Ten play, to 231 […] READ MORE
Gopher Football After giving up points in bunches just last week against Michigan State the Gopher defense made a complete turnaround in shutting out Illinois today. It’s the first Big Ten shutout for the Gophers since they beat Indiana 12-0 in 1990. The Gopher offense was just as powerful, amassing nearly 600 yards in total […] READ MORE
Gopher Football The Minnesota defense gets its first shot to prove that last Saturday’s debacle at Michigan State was a fluke. The Gophers had problems in about every area imaginable versus the Spartans, and they really have no where to go but up. Illinois will present an offense than can be dangerous, but if they […] READ MORE
Gopher Football The Minnesota Gophers return to the field on Saturday afternoon to face the Illinois Fighting Illini at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Minnesota is coming off their worst loss in 6 years after getting smacked around by Michigan State to the tune of 51-17. Even more surprising than the huge defensive collapse for […] READ MORE
Gopher Football The Gopher train derailed Saturday afternoon in East Lansing Michigan when the MSU Spartans set team and series records in a 51-17 thrashing of Minnesota. Just about every position on the field struggled for Minnesota; completely suprising everyone from the fans, to the players, to the head coach. Minnesota now needs to regroup […] READ MORE
Gopher Football The Gophers have won 16 of their last 21 games. Four of those five losses have come against Michigan and Michigan State. Today Michigan State left no doubt which team deserved to win. The Spartans scored early and often in this game building a 21-point lead by halftime and never looked back. Today’s […] READ MORE
Gopher Football The vaunted Minnesota running game stalled against Michigan in the second half last week, but what better remedy than to play against a team ranked 78th in the country in rush defense (for those who are counting, that’s 21 spots lower than Northwestern, a team the Gophers destroyed with 251 rushing yards). This […] READ MORE
Gopher Football After surrendering nearly 190 yards on the ground against Michigan last week, the Golden Gophers defensive unit will have to improve upon their run stopping if they hope to contain the number two rushing attack in the Big Ten. Michigan State, coming off the heels of a 38-25 victory over Illinois in which […] READ MORE
Gopher Football For the second consecutive year, the Gophers saw a win against Michigan slip away in the final minutes. There were several problems to go around, as the Gophers were uncharacteristicly shut down in the running game in the second half. The rushing defense didn’t do too much better, allowing a season high 190 […] READ MORE
Gopher Football For the second year in a row Michigan snatches a come-from-behind 3-point victory over the Gophers. This time it wasn’t a miraculous fourth quarter comeback for Michigan but they did overcome a 24-17 deficit late in the game. It took the Wolverines just over a minute to drive 87 yards for the winning […] READ MORE