Minnesota Gophers

In the modern era of College Football, the Minnesota Gophers football team has been far from elite. In fact, a six win season and a trip to a bowl game seems like the barometer for the program on success vs. failure. Long before my generation or even my parents one, the Minnesota Gophers football program was racking up not only Big10 Titles, but National Titles as well...

ESPN's Trevor Matich joins Overtime on Wednesday with Jeff Thurn to preview the Big Ten, including an outlook on the Minnesota Gophers.

One man had the Minnesota Gophers figured out, and hilariously countered the dreaded Kiss Cam.

As having attended many University of Minnesota Gopher football games while I was a student at the University, I only had the experience of going to games at the Metrodome. Today, that all changed.  Iowa's visit to TCF Bank Stadium coincided with my first visit to the stadium...

Tubby Smith had his best team, signed a contract extension through the 2016-2017 season last summer, and it looked like he was going to be the guy in Minnesota for awhile until the news broke today about his future.

Minnesota's football program has grown accustomed to setbacks. That also means the Gophers have plenty of experience with learning how to move on.

We still have one more September weekend of college football , but Jerry Palm has released his bowl projections for all 35 bowl games, including five BCS games. Husker fans will be happy, Gopher, Hawkeye and Cyclone fans not so much. Follow Jerry Palm on Twitter at @jppalmCBS.