2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

The 2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their seventh year under head coach Glen Mason, the Golden Gophers compiled a 103 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 503 to 285. The team made an appearance in the Sun Bowl. The 2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was ranked 17th in the final USA Today/AFCA Coaches poll and 20th in the final Associated Press poll. This was the most recent season in which Minnesota defeated the Wisconsin Badgers and received Paul Bunyan's Axe until 2018.

2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football
Sun Bowl champion
Sun Bowl, W 3130 vs. Oregon
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 17
APNo. 20
Record103 (53 Big Ten)
Head coach
Co-offensive coordinatorMitch Browning (4th as OC, 7th overall season)
Co-offensive coordinatorTony Petersen (4th as OC, 5th overall season)
Defensive coordinatorGreg Hudson (1st as DC, 3rd overall season)
CaptainAsad Abdul-Khaliq, Dan Kwapinski, Ben Utecht, Eli Ward
Home stadiumHubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
2003 Big Ten Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
No. 6 Michigan $  7 1   10 3  
No. 4 Ohio State %  6 2   11 2  
No. 18 Purdue  6 2   9 4  
No. 8 Iowa  5 3   10 3  
No. 20 Minnesota  5 3   10 3  
Michigan State  5 3   8 5  
Wisconsin  4 4   7 6  
Northwestern  4 4   6 7  
Penn State  1 7   3 9  
Indiana  1 7   2 10  
Illinois  0 8   1 11  
  • % BCS at-large representative
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
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