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Monday, November 23, 2009

Kent Youngblood: Gophers Insider

Signs point to a return to Insight Bowl

The more pressing question revolves around the Gophers offense, which failed to score a touchdown in the past two games.

Photo right: Duane Bennett (center)

Are there any standards for the Gopher athletic programs? Favre is better than when he was at Green Bay. Brock Lesnar should go recuperate in Key West.

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Subway Classic final: Gophers 87, Colorado 78

Gophers hold off Colorado

Ashley Ellis-Milan

Ashley Ellis-Milan

Kiara Buford scored 24 points and Ashley Ellis-Milan made a key putback basket down the stretch.

Jim Souhan, columnist

Blame for offense's collapse falls squarely on Brewster

Tim Brewster

Tim Brewster

The facts are not the problem. A Minnesota football team finishing 6-6, or 3-5 in the Big Ten, or losing 12-0 to Iowa in Kinnick Stadium -- those facts, the ones that provided a coda to the 2009 regular season, are the norm for this program, not jarring aberrations.

Defense puts the pressure on Iowa

A creative and relentless array of blitz packages helped the Gophers confuse the Hawkeyes and kept the U in the game.

At 6-5, Weis would have hard time arguing firing

Charlie Weis wouldn't blame Notre Dame for firing him.

Photo right: Charlie Weis

BCS at-large bids up for grabs

Iowa and Penn State ended their seasons eligible for an at-large BCS bid, and Oklahoma State and Virginia Tech are also in position to be eligible for invites to the four big-money bowl games even though they have no shot to win their conferences.

Ole Miss, Cal, UNC back in Top 25

Mississippi, California and North Carolina, teams that started the season with lofty expectations before stumbling, have surged back into the AP Top 25 college football poll.

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Michigan State's Izzo wins No. 340

Tom Izzo won his 340th game at Michigan State on Sunday, tying the school record for victories in the No. 2 Spartans' 90-60 win over Valparaiso.

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