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If Iowa earns an Orange Bowl bid, the defense gets dibs on the oceanside rooms in Miami.

The game was still in reach and the momentum looked to be turning when Iowa quarterback James Vandenberg lost a snap and the Gophers defense recovered.

Minnesota recovered an Iowa fumble on the Hawkeyes' 29-yard line. With the help of a pass interference penalty, the Gophers set up on first-and-goal from the 2. First down, Pat Angerer and Mike Daniels stuff quarterback MarQueis Gray for no gain.

The Minnesota Gophers' offense, battered and bruised, has broken. Saturday afternoon at Kinnick Stadium, it officially came to a halt in the shadow of Iowa's goal posts in the fourth quarter of a 12-0 loss to Iowa.

The half-filled student section at TCF Bank Stadium seemed to mirror the host team's degree of concentrative powers.

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Freshman James Vandenberg threw for 117 yards, and 15th-ranked Iowa kept its hopes for a BCS bowl bid alive by beating Minnesota 12-0 on Saturday.

Favorites dominated the college football landscape last week, covering at a 61% clip after two straight winning weeks by the underdogs.

It was another busy weekend in Big Ten country, and in honor of "Cup-Half-Empty Day" , here are five disappointments that jumped out at me from Saturday's action.

The 15th-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes will attempt to halt a two-game losing streak when they play host to the Minnesota Golden Gophers in a Big Ten Conference clash.

The Minnesota football team is hitting the road this weekend -- literally. The Golden Gophers will take about a five-hour bus ride to and from Iowa rather than flying.

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Michael Carter sacks Thomas O'Brien . AP Photo The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers struggled its way 16-13 win over the Football Championship Subdivision South Dakota State Jackrabbits at TCF Bank Stadium.

Minnesota 16, South Dakota State 13. AP Photo MNTa , MNTO101 B9 DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS Eric Ellestad's 25-yard field goal with 2: remaining gave Minnesota the lead, and the struggling Golden Gophers hung on for an ugl9 16-12 2 victor9 over lower-division South Dakota State on Saturday.

Minnesota doesn't have to be reminded about the last game against a lower-division opponent from a bordering state, and that memory isn't pleasant.

ILLINOIS: The Fighting Illini have their first win streak of the season after holding off Minnesota in Minneapolis over the weekend, 35-32. Young QB Jacob Charest threw for a career-high 185 yards and a TD after replacing Juice Williams, who left in the first quarter with an ankle injury.

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After another disappointing loss, one thing is painfully clear about the Golden Gophers football team: This squad still has the stink of Glen Mason on them.A Throughout Mason's tenure, there were two constants:A a stellar, clock-grinding run game and a consistent pattern of failing each and every time the team had a chance to elevate itself to the ...

Terry Hawthorne returned an interception for a touchdown and Clay Nurse had four of Illinois' eight sacks to lead the Illini to a 35-32 victory over Minnesota on Saturday.

MINNEAPOLIS – The supposedly high-performance offenses at Illinois and Minnesota spent most of the first seven weeks of the season stuck in the shop, sputtering and struggling to get going.