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Huntington Bank Stadium is the football stadium for the Minnesota Golden Gophers college football team at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 52,525-seat on-campus "horseshoe" style stadium is designed to support future expansion to seat up to 80,000 people, and cost $303.3 million to build.
The state nickname derives from a political cartoon by R. O. Sweeny, published as a broadside in 1858. The cartoon depicted state legislators as gophers dragging the state in the wrong direction. [13] The nickname was associated with the university as early as the publication of the first yearbook in 1888, which was titled "The Gopher". [14]
The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (commonly called the Metrodome) was a domed sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.It opened in 1982 as a replacement for Metropolitan Stadium, the former home of the National Football League's (NFL) Minnesota Vikings and Major League Baseball's (MLB) Minnesota Twins, and Memorial Stadium, the former home of the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team.
The 2024 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represents the University of Minnesota in the Big Ten Conference during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Gophers are led by P. J. Fleck in his eighth year as head coach.
Minnesota and Penn State had never played a game prior to the later team's entrance into the Big Ten in 1993. [6] The long-independent Nittany Lions were matched with the Golden Gophers for their first-ever in-conference game, and their first game of the 1993 season, on September 4 at Beaver Stadium.
The 2019 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Gophers played their home games at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and competed in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by third-year head coach P. J. Fleck.
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Perich received offers from schools such as USC, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Washington, [8] as well as late offers from Florida State and Ohio State. [9] He committed to play college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers .