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Minnesota Football: RoWINg to Iowa – Opponent Preview
The Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-2) return to action this week for a Homecoming matchup with the No. 15-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes (5-1) in the latest battle for the Floyd of Rosedale on Saturday, Oct. 24, at 2:30 p.m. CT. Can they score on offense? The big news out of Iowa City this week was head coach […]
2026 Minnesota Golden Gophers in the NFL: Week 6
Another week, and even more injuries creeping up for the former Gophers in the league. Between multiple bye weeks and injuries nearly half of the Gophers on this list either saw very limited action or no action at all in Week 6. Hopefully players will begin to heel and the stats will pick up as […]
Big Ten Football Power Poll: Week Seven
Week Seven in the college football world was insane. Seven of the top ten teams in the country lost this week. Three different SEC teams lost to unranked opponents. But over here in the Big Ten—well chalk reigned supreme. Yes one of those top ten teams that lost was Indiana—but they lost to #4 Ohio […]
Golden Gophers Weekend Recap
The Gopher football team may have been on their bye week, but nearly every other Golden Gopher fall sport and several winter ones were in action this past weekend. We saw some epic wins on the ice and on the course as well as on the volleyball court, and a painful loss on the pitch. […]
Tori McKinney to Miss Season With Knee Injury
The Gopher women’s basketball team announced Monday morning that junior guard Tori McKinney suffered a knee injury in practice last weekend and will miss the entire 2026-27 season. It’s a huge blow to Minnesota’s chances at returning to the NCAA Sweet 16 for the second season in a row. McKinney was a huge player in […]
Minnesota Football: Gophers set for 2:30 p.m. kickoff against Indiana
The Big Ten has announced that kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. CT when the Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-2) travel to Bloomington to face the No. 6-ranked Indiana Hoosiers (6-1) on Halloween. The game will be televised on CBS. A lot has changed for the Hoosiers since these two teams last squared off five years […]
The Monday Perspective knows when you have to pivot
We have been sitting with the loss at Purdue for several days now. I still wake up in a cold sweat seeing Femi Ijeboi run for nearly 200 yards on the Gopher defense. The offense couldn’t move the ball against the Big Ten’s worst defense; Purdue’s worst-in-the-league rushing attack ran for 299 yards. And the […]
Gophers Head Up I-35 to Face #9 UMD Bulldogs
After a week off to try and figure out what went wrong in their opening series of the season, the Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s hockey team will take the bus ride up Interstate 35 to face off against a ranked in-state rival. The Gophers will face their second of three straight ranked opponents when they […]
Gophers Host #1 Ohio State in WCHA Clash
The #3 ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers women’s hockey team will host another leg of the tri-pillars of supremacy in women’s college hockey when the #1 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes come to Ridder Arena this weekend. Both teams are still undefeated on the season with Minnesota sitting at 4-0 and with Ohio State at 6-0. The […]
Fall Sports Golden Nugz
With the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team on their bye week this week, it seems like a good time to take a look at the other Gophers fall and winter sports that are well into their seasons and recap the most recent action and look ahead to when you can catch them play next. Full […]
2026 Minnesota Golden Gophers in the NFL: Week 5
It was not a great week for former Gophers in the NFL with several not playing due to injury and those who did not having the quality of games we are used to seeing. Blake Cashman again wowed and led the Vikings defense, but that was the only real bright spot. Hopefully this week will […]
A college football weekend of hate-watching
The thing that separates college football from the NFL is the passion that surrounds it. People love their NFL teams and are wildly enthusiastic about them, but there rarely is the emotional tie that people develop with their favorite college football teams. This is much more prevalent in the south, but exists throughout the Big […]
Big Ten Football Power Poll: Week Six
Week Six confirms that parity has hit the Big Ten hard in 2026. There are two top teams (and frankly we may find out after this weekend that there’s really only one GREAT team) and then three through fourteeen are all pretty damn interchangeable. It’s a mess. But welcome to the reality of college football […]
Get to know the Gopher Basketball roster
We are just a few weeks away from Gopher basketball. Before you know it, we will be watching Gopher hockey on Friday, football on Saturday and dedicating a couple more nights every week to men’s and women’s basketball. We are just a little more than a week away from the team’s opening scrimmage against Omaha […]
Minnesota Football: Gophers set for afternoon kickoff against Iowa
The Big Ten has announced that kickoff is set for 2 or 2:30 p.m. CT when the Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-2) host the No. 17-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes (5-1) on Saturday, Oct. 24, at Huntington Bank Stadium. The game will be televised on a network that has yet to be announced. The Gophers have lost two […]
Minnesota Football vs. Purdue: The Elite, The Meh & The Ugly
The Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-2) got trounced, 41-13, by the Purdue Boilermakers (3-3) on Saturday, effectively wiping out any positive buzz remaining from the previous week’s win over Michigan. The Ugly Where do I even begin? I think I’ll start with 183. That is the average number of rushing yards per game the Purdue defense […]
Purdue runs at will and crushes Minnesota 41-13
Former Gopher, Fame Ijeboi rushed for 195 yards and three touchdowns to mog Minnesota as Purdue cruised to a 41-13 win. A game that was controlled by the Boilermakers early and they never relinquished. PJ Fleck has been proud of his team’s ability to play complementary football. All three phases playing well and coming away […]
OPEN THREAD: Gophers at Purdue in prime time
Under the lights and ready for another Gopher win.
Minnesota Football vs. Purdue: Staff Predictions
The Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-1) take their unblemished Big Ten record on the road to face the Purdue Boilermakers (2-3) for a primetime matchup at 7 p.m. CT in West Lafayette on Saturday, Oct. 10. This Week’s Thoughts: GopherNation: This is going to be dangerously close, but Drake Lindsey leads the offense on a game-winning drive […]
3 Keys to beating Purdue and how to watch
Speaking of moments and memories, this series has had its share of memorable games. I was at the game in 1993 that ended with a 59-56 win for the Gophers behind Omar Douglas’s six touchdown receptions. And again in 1995, when Chris Darkins went off for 294 yards and Minnesota went for two with under […]
2026 Minnesota Golden Gophers in the NFL: Week 4
The injury bug has started to hit as several Gophers got hurt in Week 4 and are now either out or questionable for Week 5. The defense again reigns with impressive performances from Jack Gibbons and Boye Mafe, and a huge sack from Justin Walley! Below see how the former Gophers did in Week 4 […]
Minnesota Football: RoWINg to Purdue – Opponent Preview
The Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-1) take their unblemished Big Ten record on the road to face the Purdue Boilermakers (2-3) for a primetime matchup at 7 p.m. CT in West Lafayette on Saturday, Oct. 10. Can they score on offense? One of the most surprising developments of the Boilermakers’ season has been the improvement of […]
Big Ten Football Power Poll: Week Five
Week Five had several good games including obviously the most memorable one with the Gophers winning the Jug at home for the first since since 1977. Ohio State dominated Iowa, Maryland looked good for about 25 minutes and then remembered they were Maryland and gave up 32 consecutive points. and it might be Northwestern is […]
Minnesota Football: The Gophers have a tight end problem
It’s no secret the Minnesota Golden Gophers have struggled to run the ball this season. As of this writing, the Gophers rank 16th in the Big Ten and 116th nationally in rushing offense, averaging 120.4 yards per game on the ground. They have yet to even crack 200 rushing yards in a game this season. […]
The Monday Perspective thinks that nothing can steal this from us.
This is a results-oriented world. Winning is all that matters. PJ Fleck is paid to win football games; fans care only about winning football games and sometimes we get so caught up in just the results that we fail to enjoy the elite moments when they occur. In PJ Fleck’s postgame press conference, this was […]
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