Looking to end their best season since 1904 on a high note, the No. 18 Minnesota Golden Gophers traveled to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida and fought hard for a 31-24 win over the No. 12 Auburn...
For the second time in five years, the Gophers are in a New Year's Day bowl game.
Minnesota has never faced Auburn in history, so the Minnesota Daily rewound the clock to Jan. 1, 2015, when the Gophers...
The Gophers are going to Tampa Bay, Florida to play in the Outback Bowl against the Auburn Tigers on New Year's Day.
The No. 18 Gophers are coming off one of their best seasons in over 100 years, finishing...
Coming off of one of their best regular seasons in over 100 years, the Gophers finally know their bowl destination.
No. 18 Minnesota will head to Tampa Bay, Florida to take on the No. 12 Auburn Tigers...
While the Gophers are focused on their upcoming bowl game, which will be announced on Sunday, there has been much talk about how Minnesota's best regular season in decades ended with a loss against Wisconsin.
Over...
Big-time moments call for big-time play calls. Head coach P.J. Fleck admitted he didn't make them. "I apologize to our fans for not being able to get it done, because it falls on my shoulders," he said....
After winning their 10th game of the year, the Gophers football team is having their best regular season since 1904. After last week's win against Northwestern, star wide receiver sophomore Rashod Bateman...
Win, or go home and wait to be placed in a bowl game.
That's what's at stake for the Gophers as they return home to face their No. 13 Big Ten West rival Wisconsin Badgers.
Minnesota comes into the game...
The Minnesota Daily interviewed Colten Bartholomew, a sports reporter who covers the Badgers for the Wisconsin State Journal.
1) Minnesota took the Axe back for the first time in 15 years last year....
After their first loss of the season to Iowa last week, Minnesota silenced critics who questioned their ability to bounce back as they recovered with a strong win on the road Saturday against the Northwestern...
The Gophers know that they need to take care of business. If they win the final two regular season games, the Big Ten Championship awaits. A win there and the possibility of a College Football Playoff...
After beating Penn State at home last week, the Minnesota Gophers looked like a shell of themselves at the start of the game against the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium.
“This game hit us in the...
In college football, upsets happen every week.
When teams look past opponents who might be near the bottom of their division and look ahead to tougher opponents they’ll face in the coming weeks,...
Answering to a sold-out crowd of 51,883 at TCF Bank Stadium, the undefeated Gophers gave fans a game to remember: upsetting then undefeated No.5 Penn State University, reclaiming the Governor's Victory...
Everything was set, and the Gophers were primed to make their first appearance in school history on ESPN’s College GameDay. Head coach P.J. Fleck made his newsworthy pitch after the win over Maryland...
Ahead of its meeting with No. 5 Penn State on Saturday, the University of Minnesota announced a contract extension with football head coach P.J. Fleck, pending Board of Regents approval.
The University...
When the Gophers and the Nittany Lions take the field on Saturday, it will be arguably the biggest game in TCF Bank Stadium history.
The Gophers are 8-0 coming off a 52-10 drubbing of Maryland, a game...
It has been three years since Minnesota last faced Penn State on the gridiron. Entering the game, the Gophers held a 3-0 record, while the Nittany Lions sat at 2-2. That game took place on Oct. 1, 2016...
As the band Queen sings in their well-known song "Bohemian Rhapsody," “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?”
Gophers fans, this is no fantasy — this is real life. October is coming...
Another game, another terrific showing by the Gophers defense.
Minnesota's defense came into the game having only allowed 17 points in the last three games and Saturday's game against Maryland would...
It doesn’t matter who Minnesota is playing this season — their offense has put up points. Some games it takes longer for the offense to get going than others, but have no doubt about it, Minnesota...
Before every home game, The Minnesota Daily chats with a reporter who covers the opponent. This week, the Daily interviewed Andy Kostka from The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of...
The Gophers are playing some of their best football in recent memory, and the program is riding high after getting off to a 7-0 (4-0 in conference) record to start the season.
Last week, the Gophers dominated...
In a sloppy performance, Rutgers gave the Gophers' offense every opportunity to capitalize off of its mistakes.
With sixth ranked Wisconsin losing to lowly Illinois right before the game, the Gophers...
Injuries and a suspension knocked Kamal Martin out of last year's bowl game and trickled over through this year's season opener against South Dakota State. However, when the senior linebacker has been...
The Gophers found the weak point of the Nebraska defense on Saturday night, and they never stopped attacking it as they took down the Cornhuskers 34-7.
After averaging 6.4 yards per carry on 52 rushes...
"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do, it comes from overcoming the thing you once thought you couldn’t."
Those words are a part of a sleeve tattoo on Gophers running back Shannon Brooks’ right...
Off to a 5-0 start for the first time in 15 years, the Gophers look to reverse the fortune of last year's game against Nebraska when they lost 53-28 in Lincoln.
The Gophers face a Cornhusker team that...
Final: 53-28 Nebraska over Minnesota
The last time these two teams met, Nebraska dominated from the get-go, giving Scott Frost his first win as the head coach of the Cornhuskers. This was also the...
This isn't the Gophers defense that Illinois pushed around last year.
While the offense had their ups and downs, Gophers defensive coordinator Joe Rossi and his defense shined, holding the Illinois...
It feels like Rodney Smith has been a Gopher forever.
The now sixth-year senior running back began his Gopher career in 2014, where he used a redshirt his first season under head coach Jerry Kill....
The Gophers dominated in their first game of Big Ten conference play. The Gophers went into West Lafayette well prepared and took the steam out of the Boilermakers with a score of 38-31.
It was a career...
To preview the upcoming game game against Illinois, we interviewed Miles Powers-Huang, staff writer from The Daily Illini, to get an inside look at the Illini.
Illinois is 2-2 so far on the year...
Gopher fans have waited many years to see quarterback play like they saw against Purdue on Saturday. Quarterback Tanner Morgan played a game most fans will never forget. He broke a Big Ten record and shattered...
It’s not going to be an easy road for the Gophers as they resume play after a much-needed bye week. The final nine games of the season come against Big Ten opponents, and with Big Ten West title aspirations,...
After a week to get healthy and prepare for the season ahead, the Gophers head into Big Ten play undefeated, but with much to work on.
An area of strength that Gophers teams have almost always had is running...
To some fans, a game at home against the Georgia Southern Eagles Saturday sounded like an easy win. The Gophers were a 17-point favorite before the game began. After the fourth quarter ended, however,...
To some fans, a game at home against the Georgia Southern Eagles Saturday sounded like an easy win. The Gophers were a 17-point favorite before the game began. After the fourth quarter ended, however,...
Gophers football (2-0) hosts Georgia Southern (1-1) Saturday afternoon as the Gophers go for their 18th straight win against nonconference opponents, the longest nonconference win streak in Division I.
The...
The Gophers play their second home game of the season against Georgia Southern on Saturday, looking for a win and to enter their bye week on a high note.
After the bye, the Gophers begin Big Ten...
Gophers fans are all too familiar with inconsistent quarterback play.
With quarterbacks like Max Shortell, Conor Rhoda, MarQueis Gray, Mitch Leidner and Philip Nelson, the list can go on for a while....
For much of Saturday night, the Gophers looked in control against the Fresno State Bulldogs. Yet, every time Minnesota looked to be gaining momentum, something got in the way: themselves.
Minnesota needed...
Everyone knows about Gopher’s senior star wide receiver Tyler Johnson. However, it’s another receiver who will be just as crucial to the Gopher’s success in 2019: sophomore Rashod Bateman.
Coming...
The Gophers were a 14.5-point favorite over the FCS fourth-ranked South Dakota State Jackrabbits heading into the game, but the game ended up much closer than that as the Gophers shook off some rust against...
In a press release sent out Saturday morning, Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck announced that quarterback Zack Annexstad is out indefinitely after suffering a foot injury during practice on Friday.
Fleck...
The Gophers men’s basketball team had their second to last practice on Thursday before head coach Richard Pitino and his squad embark on a nine-day trip to Italy. During the trip, the team will travel...
At the University of Georgia, Rachel Zilinskas was a seven-time All-American long distance swimmer who competed in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic trials. After tearing her rotator cuff her sophomore year, she...
Rotoworld’s Thor Nystrom sat down with the Minnesota Daily to share his ideas about the Gophers' upcoming football season.
Nystrom is the lead college football writer at Rotoworld, an NBC affiliate....
While playing football, Gophers redshirt freshman defensive end Alex Reigelsperger always knew there was a possibility that athletes can be seriously injured. He just never thought it could happen to him.
It...
The Gophers' men's gymnastics team's 2019 recruiting class has made waves on the national stage before even suiting up in maroon and gold.
Incoming freshmen Crew Bold and Donte McKinney have qualified...
The Gophers lost a top recruit from their 2018 recruiting class Tuesday night.
Redshirt freshman defensive lineman Alex Reigelsperger announced on Twitter that he was retiring due to medical reasons....
He’s still a year away from joining the Gopher Football team, but cornerback Richard Agyekum from the Netherlands is ready to make his way to Minnesota.
Agyekum is one of two recruits in the Gopher’s...
The University of Minnesota named Alicea Strodel as its new women's rowing head coach on Monday.
"It is an honor to be chosen to coach at Minnesota and within the Big Ten Conference, the best rowing conference...
Temi Ogunrinde’s prolific career with the Gophers' track and field team took a complete left turn after her first year. Despite having success as a sprinter in high school and freshman year of college,...
Head coach P.J. Fleck and the Gophers continue to reel in recruits for their 2020 class. After a string of three-star commitments over the last few weeks, the program received a verbal commitment from...
The Gophers football team has a tough decision to make for the top running back spot heading into the 2019 season, but to head coach P.J. Fleck, it's a decision he looks forward to making.
Heading into...
Jordan Murphy and Amir Coffey were hoping to be the first Gophers selected in the NBA draft since 2004, but Thursday night came and went without either player hearing their name called.
However,...
P.J. Fleck and his coaching staff continue to stay hot on the recruiting trail for their 2020 class.
On Tuesday June 18 the Gophers received a commitment from offensive lineman Martes Lewis. On Thursday,...
In what was a controversial choice for Gopher basketball star Amir Coffey to enter the 2019 NBA Draft, he went undrafted last night.
The 6-foot-8 small forward chose to forego his senior year to...
The Gophers softball team had its most successful season in school history in 2019.
Despite losing in the Women’s College World Series to UCLA and the University of Washington, weeks later they are still...
P.J. Fleck’s signature Twitter spotlight went off more than a few times over the weekend as Gophers football received eight verbal commitments to their 2020 class.
Defensive ends Claude Larkins Jr. and...
Brett Schulze was sitting with his family in his Maple Grove, Minnesota home on June 4, when his phone rang. It was a call he had been waiting for.
On the other end was Justin Morgenstern, a Philadelphia...
