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Up next for Gophers football: Bowl season

The Gophers will be playing in a bowl game for the fourth time in coach P.J. Fleck's six years in Minnesota.

By Randy Johnson

November 27, 2022 at 11:14PM
P.J. Fleck and his Gophers defeated West Virginia in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl on Dec. 28, 2021, in Phoenix. (Rick Scuteri, Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Up next, Gophers at bowl game, to be determined

The skinny: With their 23-16 victory at Wisconsin on Saturday, the Gophers finished the regular season 8-4 overall and 5-4 in the Big Ten. They'll be playing in a bowl game for the fourth time in coach P.J. Fleck's six years in Minnesota, and which bowl that is will be announced Dec. 4 after the conference championship games are played on Saturday.

The Gophers are 3-0 in bowls under Fleck, winning the Quick Lane Bowl in 2018, the Outback Bowl in 2019 and the Guaranteed Rate Bowl last year. Overall, Minnesota is on a five-game bowl winning streak and is 10-12 in its bowl history.

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Randy Johnson

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Randy Johnson covers University of Minnesota football and college football for the Minnesota Star Tribune, along with Gophers hockey and the Wild.

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