2009 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

The 2009 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was the third under head coach Tim Brewster. They began play on September 5, 2009, at Syracuse, a member of the Big East Conference. On September 12, the Minnesota opened the new TCF Bank Stadium with a 20–13 win against Air Force, moving from the Metrodome, which had been their home stadium since 1982. The Golden Gophers finished the season 6–7 and 3–5 in Big Ten play and lost 13–14 to Iowa State in the Insight Bowl. Despite the worse overall record, the Golden Gophers only suffered two blowout losses in the 2009 season (20-0 to Penn State and 38–7 to Ohio State), compared to 3 in 2008 (55–0 to Iowa, 42–21 to Kansas, 29–6 to a 3–9 Michigan team, and one could possibly also include a 34–21 loss to Ohio State that was 34–6 until the Buckeye reserves came in).

2009 Minnesota Golden Gophers football
Insight Bowl, L 13–14 vs. Iowa State
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Record6–7 (3–5 Big Ten)
Head coach
  • Tim Brewster (3rd season)
Offensive coordinatorJedd Fisch (1st season)
Co-defensive coordinatorKevin Cosgrove (1st season)
Co-defensive coordinatorRonnie Lee (1st season)
CaptainGarrett Brown, Lee Campbell, Eric Decker, Simoni Lawrence, Eric Small, Adam Weber
Home stadiumTCF Bank Stadium
2009 Big Ten Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
No. 5 Ohio State $  7 1   11 2  
No. 7 Iowa %  6 2   11 2  
No. 9 Penn State  6 2   11 2  
Northwestern  5 3   8 5  
No. 16 Wisconsin  5 3   10 3  
Michigan State  4 4   6 7  
Purdue  4 4   5 7  
Minnesota  3 5   6 7  
Illinois  2 6   3 9  
Michigan  1 7   5 7  
Indiana  1 7   4 8  
  • $ BCS representative as conference champion
  • % BCS at-large representative
Rankings from AP Poll
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