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A change in roles has brought out the best in Gophers junior cornerback Ryan Collado.

Daniel Murray kicked two field goals and Iowa's defense forced three turnovers Saturday, leading the 15th-ranked Hawkeyes to 12-0 Big Ten win over Minnesota.

Iowa senior lineback A.J. Edds led the Iowa defense with an interception, sack, and seven tackles as Iowa shut out Minnesota, 12-0. The play-by-play: The Hawkeyes started on offense and got going early.

Eric Ellestad's 25-yard field goal with 2:22 remaining gave Minnesota the lead, and the struggling Golden Gophers hung on for an ugly 16-13 victory over lower-division South Dakota State on Saturday.

Jeff Tow-Arnett , his right leg taped tight and braced, returned to the practice field Tuesday.

As the first half ended Saturday with Illinois leading by 21 points, there were boos aimed at the Gophers in TCF Bank Stadium.

One team had no chance at a bowl game. The other had to win to become bowl eligible.

Illinois at Minnesota When: 11:00 a.m. at TCF Bank Stadium TV: BTN; Radio: WIND 560-AM. Series: Minnesota leads 32-27-3. Coaches: Ron Zook ; Tim Brewster Players to watch: This newly intense rivalry took a wrong turn last year for Illinois despite a Memorial Stadium-record 503 total yards by QB Juice Williams.

Following the Gophers crushing loss at Ohio State, several observers thought that the Univeristy of Minnesota's football season was basically over.A We'd seen this script before.A It appeared as Gopher fans would be in for a repeat of 2008.

MINNEAPOLIS - The ball bounced off tight end Nick Tow-Arnett's chest and into the air, landing right in the hands of running back Duane Bennett.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 5:40 pm US/Central JON KRAWCZYNSKI, AP Sports Writer MINNEAPOLIS 1 of 1 Quarterback Adam Weber #8 of the Minnesota Golden Gophers awaits the snap against the Illinois Fighting Illini at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome on Nov.

Michigan State's bowl drive went from hitting a speed bump against Iowa a week earlier to running into a roadblock with a 42-34 loss against Minnesota in TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday night.

The Gophers were called for one penalty after another Saturday night, but they also kept making one big play after another offensively to pull out their biggest win of the season, beating Michigan State 42-34 at TCF Bank Stadium.

The spotlight kept focusing on Troy Stoudermire last week for the wrong reasons.

The University of Minnesota football team came close to its fourth end of game comeback win this season Saturday, but failed to claim Paul Bunyan's Axe for the sixth-straight year in a 31-28 loss Saturday against Wisconsin in front of a sellout crowd of 50,805 fans in the first Big Ten Conference game at TCF Bank Stadium.

MINNEAPOLIS - Nate Triplett christened Minnesota's new stadium with a career-high 17 tackles and a 52-yard fumble return for a score to carry the Gophers to a 20-13 win over Air Force on Saturday night.

Sometime before the Gophers' season opener against Syracuse on Saturday, Eric Decker will receive a call on his cell phone from "Ron Jon." And surely he will answer it.

In order to catch Ohio State and Penn State in this season's Big Ten title race, the other contenders need every advantage they can get.

And the University of Minnesota football team had to declare winners and losers atop the depth chart from tailback to wide receiver to defensive end heading into the Sept.

Despite receiving playing time as freshman wide receiver last season and having a big spring game this year, Brodrick Smith decided to leave the University of Minnesota football team to be closer to home, Gophers coach Tim Brewster announced today.