2019 and 2022 Gophers football schedule comparison

This year's Gophers football team is already speculated to eclipse the 2019 team. Here's how the schedules for both years match up.

September 28, 2022 at 10:53PM
Minnesota Gophers tight end Brevyn Spann-Ford (88) and running back Trey Potts (3) celebrate Spann-Ford's third quarter touchdown against the Western Illinois Leatherneck Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022 at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minn. ] aaron.lavinsky@startribune.com
Gophers fans and players alike could have a lot to smile about this year if the team can keep up its current run of play. (Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A game-by-game comparison of the Gophers' 2019 and 2022 seasons.

2019

Aug. 29 vs. South Dakota State, W 28-21

Sept. 7 at Fresno State, W 38-35

Sept. 14 vs. Georgia Southern, W 35-32

Sept. 28 at Purdue, W 38-31

Oct. 5 vs. Illinois, W 40-17

Oct. 12 vs. Nebraska, W 34-7

Oct. 19 at Rutgers, W 42-7

Oct. 26 vs. Maryland, W 52-10

Nov. 9 vs. Penn State, W 31-26

Nov. 16 at Iowa, L 19-23

Nov. 23 at Northwestern, W 38-22

Nov. 30 vs. Wisconsin, L 17-38

Jan. 1 vs. Auburn, W 31-24*

  • — Outback Bowl

2022

Sept. 1 vs. New Mexico State, W 38-0

Sept. 10 vs. Western Illinois, W 62-10

Sept. 17 vs. Colorado, W 49-7

Sept. 24 at Michigan State, W 34-7

Oct. 1 vs. Purdue

Oct. 15 at Illinois

Oct. 22 at Penn State

Oct. 29 vs. Rutgers

Nov. 5 at Nebraska

Nov. 12 vs. Northwestern

Nov. 19 vs. Iowa

Nov. 26 at Wisconsin

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Joe Christensen

Sports team leader

Joe Christensen, a Minnesota Star Tribune sports team leader, graduated from the University of Minnesota and spent 15 years covering Major League Baseball, including stops at the Riverside Press-Enterprise and Baltimore Sun. He joined the Minnesota Star Tribune in 2005 and spent four years covering Gophers football.

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