With all of the injuries the Gophers had to overcome, winning this bowl game was a fitting end to the season. The Gophers were clearly the better team in this matchup and really should have scored way more points. Before the game, the roof of the stadium was left open for pregame festivities and it was raining cats and dogs. This made no sense considering the game was already going to be played on a baseball field and in the desert. This only made the game sloppier and diffic

We have made it to College Football Bowl season! Our Minnesota Golden Gophers finished the season at 8-4 and earned a spot in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl against the West Virginia Mountaineers, who finished 6-6 on the year and 6th place in the Big 12. The game will be played at Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ, home of the MLB’s Arizona Diamondbacks. It looks to be a pretty unique setting! Minnesota, rightfully so, comes into this matchup as 5-point favorites… and I honestly think th

The Minnesota Gophers DOMINATED their biggest rival, the Wisconsin Badgers, 23-13 to bring home Paul Bunyan's Axe and prevent the Badgers from winning the Big Ten West. Instead, our other rival, the Iowa Hawkeyes, will be facing the Michigan Wolverines for the Big Ten Title. All week we heard about how dominant Wisconsin's defense was, but it ended up being Minnesota's defense that swarmed and won the day. The Gophers offense put up 23 points on the Badgers' defense, while th

GET YOUR POPCORN READY! The Minnesota Gophers and Wisconsin Badgers have one of the oldest rivalries in all of college football. The Badgers have won 16 of the last 17 meetings and now own a 62-60-8 overall lead. Since the arrival of PJ Fleck though, the University of Minnesota football program has been completely turned around, both on and off the field. The Gophers are now a team that is becoming a consistent threat in the Big Ten West and will continue to do so in years to

The Minnesota Gophers did exactly what they needed to do to defeat the Indiana Hoosiers. In my preview, I had predicted that the Gophers would win 34-10. The final score ended up being 35-14, in favor of the good guys. With all of Indiana's injuries, the Gophers were able to take advantage of that and win the game in every aspect. This was exactly the type of game the Gophers needed to gain some confidence and momentum moving into the final game of the season, after dropping

The Minnesota Gophers have faced plenty of adversity this season. Most recently, they are coming off of 2 straight losses that they should have won. There are still 2 regular season games left to turn the season back around. Indiana is the worst team in the Big Ten at 0-7 in the conference, as well as being one of the worst Power-5 teams in the nation. The Hoosiers have lost 18 players to season ending injuries and will be starting their 3rd String QB, as their 1st and 2nd St

The recent Minnesota Gophers 4 game winning streak felt like the season was finally back on track. The Gophers were ranked #20 and had sole possession of 1st Place in the Big Ten West. Since then, the Gophers have dropped back-to-back games to Illinois and Iowa and in both cases they could have easily resulted in wins. It is disappointing, but us as fans do need to remind ourselves of how far this program has come since PJ Fleck has come to town, both ON and OFF the field. Ob

Rivalry week is upon us! The battle for the Floyd of Rosedale Trophy starts this Saturday at 2:30pm in Iowa City. Iowa has had the upper hand as of late in this rivalry series; winning the last 6 meetings, 8 of the last 9 meetings, and haven't lost to Minnesota in Iowa City since 1999. Minnesota is going to have to bring their 'A' game in this one if they are going to come out of the game with Floyd. Here are a few games that show some comparison against the same opponents: M

After finally getting ranked in the Top 20, the Minnesota Gophers came out flat at home versus Illinois, ending the Gopher's 4-game winning streak. The Gophers are now 0-2 against teams that sport the color orange, but the good news is they don't have anymore orange schools on the current schedule! I don't have much to go over with this performance. It reminded me very much of the Bowling Green game with the Gophers offense deciding not to show up, unfortunately. Illinois gra

The Minnesota Gophers are ranked #20 in the nation, they currently have sole possession of 1st place in the Big Ten West, and they just added a 2-year extension for Head Coach PJ Fleck which locks him in through 2028. After starting the season 2-2, the Gophers are now looking to extend their winning streak to 5 games against Illinois. Offensively, Minnesota is going to continue to run the ball with Bucko Irving and Ky Thomas behind the talented and RED HOT Offensive Line and

The Minnesota Gophers traveled to Northwestern and took care of business, continuing to dominate the teams they need to beat. In the preview for this game, I had written "The passing game should be quiet, yet efficient again, letting the backfield and OL control the day and likely run up the score...The Gophers enter this road game as 7.5 point favorites and I feel that is being generous. I predict the Gophers to win this game in convincing fashion, 38-10, improving to 6-2 an

The Minnesota Gophers, coming off 3 straight wins, will travel to play against the defending Big Ten West Champion Northwestern Wildcats on Saturday at 2:30pm. This is a big week for the Gophers and the program, as a win on Saturday will officially make the Gophers bowl eligible. This is not the Gophers final goal of the season, but it crosses off one of the expected season to season goals, one that we did not reach last season partly due to the shortened season. Another nice

The Minnesota Gophers won this game from start to finish and on both sides of the ball. Their rushing attack was as good as it's been all year and the defense just seems to keep improving as the season rolls on. The 2 Freshman RBs, Bucko Irving and Ky Thomas, became the 4th and 5th different 100-yard rushers for Minnesota in only the 7th game of the season as the Gophers were able to gain a monstrous 326 yards on ground which led to the 34-16 victory over Maryland. Here is a

Minnesota Gophers will host the Maryland Terrapins from the Big Ten East at 2:30 pm on Saturday. This should be an interesting matchup as the Gophers look to continue improving as we move into the second half of the regular season. The Gophers are coming off of 2 straight Big Ten victories, while the Terps are are coming off of 2 straight losses in blowout fashion. Maryland is still a school that gets very good recruits and should not be taken lightly. Last season, the Terps

Here's a look at how the preview of this game went for Birdman's Blog: "This will be a close game throughout and my prediction is Minnesota will win at home 26-20. (Literally every site I looked up has Nebraska winning this matchup and all those people are a bunch of stupid idiots. Nebraska continues to be bad under Scott Frost and they still don't know how to win.)" The final score was 30-23, as the Gophers were able to hold off the Nebraska Cornhuskers, yet again. The $5 Bi

The Minnesota Gophers are coming off a MUCH needed bye week as they return to Big Ten West play against a tough Nebraska team. Both teams have shown to play to the level of their opponent, so who knows what will happen in this matchup. The Gophers have won 3 out of the 4 games in this rivalry trophy game ($5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy) since PJ Fleck has come to Minnesota. On one hand, the Gophers have played tough against Ohio State, Colorado, and Purdue, but have played po

The Gophers bounced back on Saturday with a fantastic 20-13 win over a good Purdue Boilermakers team. Honestly, Purdue made a HUGE mistake in playing the Gophers a week after the Gophers struggled against a weak MAC team. Earlier in the season, the Gophers traveled to Boulder, CO a week after struggling against another MAC team and obliterated the Buffaloes, 30-0. The main question coming in was which Minnesota Gophers football team was going to show up. It is a valid questio

We are going to keep things positive for this preview. Whatever happened last week wasn't the Gophers that we have come to know since PJ Fleck took over in Minnesota. The Gophers will be traveling to Purdue this Saturday to take on the Boilermakers at 11am Central Time. It's early in the season and the Big Ten West is 100% up for grabs with all the deciding games right in front of the Gophers over the next couple of months. The experienced Gopher football team will have plent

The nation was in shock as Saturday's final score meant the Minnesota Gophers likely won't be attending the College Football Playoff as a participant this season, I know, I am shocked too. In classic Minnesota sports fashion, the Gophers got upset 14-10 by Bowling Green, one of the worst teams in college football, on Homecoming, and after coming into the game favored by an enormous 31-points! Nobody saw this coming besides maybe the Bowling Green football players. For a team

Our Minnesota Gophers traveled to Boulder, CO, clearly ticked off from Week 1 & Week 2, and proceeded to dominate every aspect of the game. The Gophers won on offense, defense, special teams, coaching, and even decided to rock cooler chrome gold helmets than the home team Buffaloes. The 30-0 score didn't tell the whole story of dominance that it should have as the Gophers kicker, who is very good, had an off day missing 2 field goals and 1 extra point as well as the refs scre