Gopher Football
 

The University of Minnesota Gophers football team began playing in 1882, making the team one of the oldest programs in college football history. The Golden Gophers will begin playing at the new TCF Bank Stadium for the 2009 football season. TCF Bank Stadium, which is on the University of Minnesota campus, is located at 2009 University Ave SE in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The TCF Bank Stadium seating chart can hold up to 50,300 Golden Gophers football fans. Before the new TCF Bank Stadium was built, the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team played at the HHH Metrodome from 1982 through the 2008 season. Check the Minnesota Gophers schedule to ensure you see the games at TCF Bank Stadium this football season!

The Gophers football team has produced one Heisman Trophy award winner in Bruce Smith back in 1941. Bruce Smith’s jersey number, 54, was the first to be retired by the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, in 1977. Buy your Gophers football tickets now to see the whole Minnesota Gophers team play this football season, you never know when the next Heisman Trophy might be given to our very own Gopher player!

The Golden Gophers football team has won 18 Big Ten Conference Championships, with the most recent in 1967. Of the 12 Bowl games that the Minnesota Gophers have played in, the Gophers football team has won 5 of those games. The Minnesota Gophers football alumni that went on the NFL draft total 333 players, 17 of which were 1st round draft picks. Bud Grant, who played as a Golden Gopher in college at the University of Minnesota, went on to be Minnesota Vikings football coach from 1967-1983 and 1985 and was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1994.

The Golden Gophers colors are maroon and gold and Goldy Gopher is the University of Minnesota mascot. The big games you’ll want to buy Minnesota Gophers football tickets for this season are against Gophers rivals the Iowa Hawkeyes, Wisconsin Badgers and the Michigan Wolverines. But be sure to buy Golden Gophers tickets early because with the excitement of the new TCF Bank Stadium, Gophers tickets will not be around for long!