Minnesota Golden Gophers

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG
Team	11	181	3,321	831	4.0	1,113	442	2.5	2,208	389	5.7
Team Rank		91st	90th	21st	98th	93rd	77th	96th	41st	16th	97th
Opponent	11	518	4,951		6.5	2,949	516	5.7	2,002	250	8.0
Opponent Rank		112th	99th		105th	104th	67th	105th	48th	12th	97th
Net		-337	-1,630	+831	-2.5	-1,836	-74	-3.2	+206	+139	-2.3
Net Rank		112th	101st	21st	104th	103rd	81st	105th	41st	7th	102nd

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Greg Murphy G. Murphy	11	115	242	47.5	22.0	1,410	5.8	128.2	6	16	91.4	2.5	6.6
Brett Sadek B. Sadek	11	60	130	46.2	11.8	757	5.8	68.8	7	5	105.1	5.4	3.8
Andy Hare A. Hare	11	2	13	15.4	1.2	26	2.0	2.4	1	4	-4.0	7.7	30.8
Bob Sudler B. Sudler	11	0	2	0.0	0.2	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Adam Kelly A. Kelly	11	1	1	100.0	0.1	15	15.0	1.4	0	0	226.0	0.0	0.0
Dwayne McMullen D. McMullen	11	0	1	0.0	0.1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Rushing	GP	ATT	ATT/G	YDS	YPC	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
David Puk D. Puk	11	73	6.6	287	3.9	26.1	2	76	309
Kevin Wilson K. Wilson	11	61	5.5	197	3.2	17.9	0	63	214
Valdez Baylor V. Baylor	11	55	5.0	229	4.2	20.8	1	73	378
Tony Hunter T. Hunter	11	53	4.8	194	3.7	17.6	1	61	289
Brett Sadek B. Sadek	11	48	4.4	-51	-1.1	-4.6	0
Alan Reid A. Reid	11	39	3.5	158	4.1	14.4	1	44	194
Greg Murphy G. Murphy	11	36	3.3	-70	-1.9	-6.4	0
Malcolm Nelson M. Nelson	11	31	2.8	114	3.7	10.4	0	36	134
Donovan Small D. Small	11	24	2.2	98	4.1	8.9	0	28	135
Andy Hare A. Hare	11	7	0.6	7	1.0	0.6	0
Bob Sudler B. Sudler	11	4	0.4	12	3.0	1.1	0
Melvin Anderson M. Anderson	11	2	0.2	11	5.5	1.0	0	9	91
Dwayne McMullen D. McMullen	11	2	0.2	-5	-2.5	-0.5	0	30	388
Clark Johnson C. Johnson	11	2	0.2	-7	-3.5	-0.6	0	4	28
Kevin Starks K. Starks	11	1	0.1	-2	-2.0	-0.2	0	7	144
Darryl Castile D. Castile	11	1	0.1	-4	-4.0	-0.4	0	5	22

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Jay Carroll J. Carroll	11	37	3.4	459	12.4	41.7	2
Dwayne McMullen D. McMullen	11	28	2.5	393	14.0	35.7	5	30	388
Fred Hartwig F. Hartwig	11	28	2.5	333	11.9	30.3	2
Lungen Howard L. Howard	11	21	1.9	360	17.1	32.7	1
Valdez Baylor V. Baylor	11	18	1.6	149	8.3	13.5	3	73	378
Tony Hunter T. Hunter	11	8	0.7	95	11.9	8.6	0	61	289
Melvin Anderson M. Anderson	11	7	0.6	80	11.4	7.3	0	9	91
Kevin Starks K. Starks	11	6	0.5	146	24.3	13.3	1	7	144
Alan Reid A. Reid	11	5	0.5	36	7.2	3.3	0	44	194
Malcolm Nelson M. Nelson	11	5	0.5	20	4.0	1.8	0	36	134
Donovan Small D. Small	11	4	0.4	37	9.3	3.4	0	28	135
Darryl Castile D. Castile	11	4	0.4	26	6.5	2.4	0	5	22
David Puk D. Puk	11	3	0.3	22	7.3	2.0	0	76	309
Clark Johnson C. Johnson	11	2	0.2	35	17.5	3.2	0	4	28
Kevin Wilson K. Wilson	11	2	0.2	17	8.5	1.5	0	63	214

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG	TD
Andy Hare A. Hare	11	3	-2	-0.7	0
Andre Harris A. Harris	11	2	18	9	0
Craig White C. White	11	2	11	5.5	0
Craig Graffunder C. Graffunder	11	1	45	45	1
Scott Tessier S. Tessier	11	1	16	16	0
Jerry Keeble J. Keeble	11	1	7	7	0
Duane Dutrieuille D. Dutrieuille	11	1	2	2	0
Mike Darden M. Darden	11	1	0	0	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	PTS
Jim Gallery J. Gallery	11				11	18	51
Brett Sadek B. Sadek	11	0		7			42
Greg Murphy G. Murphy	11	0		6			36
Dwayne McMullen D. McMullen	11	0	5	5			30
Valdez Baylor V. Baylor	11	1	3	4			24
Jay Carroll J. Carroll	11		2	2			12
Fred Hartwig F. Hartwig	11		2	2			12
David Puk D. Puk	11	2	0	2			12
Craig Graffunder C. Graffunder	11			1			6
Andy Hare A. Hare	11	0		1			6
Lungen Howard L. Howard	11		1	1			6
Tony Hunter T. Hunter	11	1	0	1			6
Alan Reid A. Reid	11	1	0	1			6
Kevin Starks K. Starks	11	0	1	1			6

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Melvin Anderson M. Anderson	11	24	468	19.5	0
Donovan Small D. Small	11	16	286	17.9	0
Fred Hartwig F. Hartwig	11	1	8	8.0	0	14	74	5.3	0
Darryl Castile D. Castile	11	9	258	28.7	0
Malcolm Nelson M. Nelson	11	6	75	12.5	0
Alan Reid A. Reid	11					6	63	10.5	0
Jeff Kyle J. Kyle	11					6	30	5.0	0
Clark Johnson C. Johnson	11	2	32	16.0	0
Duane Dutrieuille D. Dutrieuille	11	1	15	15.0	0
Kevin Wilson K. Wilson	11	1	5	5.0	0
Kerry Glenn K. Glenn	11					1	0	0.0	0

	Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	FG 1-19	FG 20-29	FG 30-39	FG 40-49	FG 50+	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
	Jim Gallery J. Gallery	11	11	15	73.3						18	20	90.0	51

	Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG	LNG	BLK
	Paul Blanchard P. Blanchard	11	58	2,071	35.7
	Adam Kelly A. Kelly	11	23	926	40.3

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

1,499

Maiava

1,453

Jennings

1,423

Atkinson

Rush Yards Leaders

644

Sheppard

600

Baugh

592

Riley

Rec Yards Leaders

617

Smith

585

Legree

564

Toney

Pass TD Leaders

14

Taylor

14

Mensah

14

Maiava

Rush TD Leaders

11

Baugh

9

Hawkins

9

Knight

Rec TD Leaders

7

Duff

7

Dixon

7

Smith

QB Rating Leaders

228.2

Mensah

209.1

Stockton

204.6

Hoover

Sack Leaders

7.5

Simmons

7.0

Umanmielen

6.5

Hopkins

CFB 2026 Rankings

PPG Rankings

54.8

53.5

51.8

48.0

47.5

45.0

Opp PPG Rankings

8.0

8.3

8.5

9.0

9.8

10.3

Total Yards Rankings

588.8

550.8

548.3

533.3

532.8

523.8

Rush Yards Rankings

355.7

333.7

332.3

294.8

281.5

281.3

Pass Yards Rankings

392.5

365.3

365.0

361.3

347.3

346.5

Sack Leaders

18.0

17.0

15.0

CFB 2026 Standings

	Southeastern	W	L	PCT
1	Alabama	4	0	1.000
2	Florida	4	0	1.000
3	Georgia	4	0	1.000
4	Mississippi State	4	0	1.000
5	Texas	4	0	1.000
6	Ole Miss	3	1	.750
7	Auburn	3	1	.750
8	Kentucky	3	1	.750
9	LSU	3	1	.750
10	Missouri	3	1	.750
11	Tennessee	3	1	.750
12	Vanderbilt	3	1	.750
13	Arkansas	2	2	.500
14	Oklahoma	2	2	.500
15	South Carolina	2	2	.500
16	Texas A&M	2	2	.500

	Pac-12	W	L	PCT
1	Boise State	3	1	.750
2	Fresno State	3	1	.750
3	Colorado State	2	2	.500
4	Oregon State	2	2	.500
5	Texas State	2	2	.500
6	San Diego State	1	3	.250
7	Utah State	1	3	.250
8	Washington State	1	3	.250

	Big 10	W	L	PCT
1	UCLA	4	0	1.000
2	Indiana	4	0	1.000
3	Iowa	4	0	1.000
4	Nebraska	4	0	1.000
5	Minnesota	3	1	.750
6	Ohio State	3	1	.750
7	Oregon	3	1	.750
8	Wisconsin	3	1	.750
9	USC	4	1	.800
10	Michigan	3	1	.750
11	Penn State	3	1	.750
12	Washington	3	1	.750
13	Northwestern	2	1	.667
14	Illinois	2	2	.500
15	Maryland	2	2	.500
16	Michigan State	2	2	.500
17	Purdue	1	3	.250
18	Rutgers	1	3	.250

	Big 12	W	L	PCT
1	Cincinnati	4	0	1.000
2	Texas Tech	4	0	1.000
3	Utah	4	0	1.000
4	BYU	3	0	1.000
5	Baylor	3	1	.750
6	Oklahoma State	3	1	.750
7	UCF	3	1	.750
8	Arizona State	2	1	.667
9	Arizona	3	1	.750
10	Houston	3	1	.750
11	Kansas State	3	1	.750
12	West Virginia	3	1	.750
13	Colorado	2	2	.500
14	Iowa State	2	2	.500
15	TCU	2	2	.500
16	Kansas	1	2	.333

	Mid-American	W	L	PCT
1	UMass	4	0	1.000
2	Kent State	2	2	.500
3	Eastern Michigan	2	3	.400
4	Toledo	3	1	.750
5	Buffalo	2	2	.500
6	Central Michigan	2	2	.500
7	Miami (OH)	2	2	.500
8	Ohio	2	2	.500
9	Western Michigan	2	2	.500
10	Akron	1	3	.250
11	Bowling Green	0	4	.000
12	Ball State	1	3	.250
13	Sacramento State	1	4	.200

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Miami	4	0	1.000
2	Clemson	3	1	.750
3	Duke	4	0	1.000
4	Pittsburgh	4	0	1.000
5	Virginia Tech	4	0	1.000
6	Virginia	3	1	.750
7	Wake Forest	3	1	.750
8	Louisville	2	2	.500
9	SMU	3	1	.750
10	California	2	2	.500
11	Stanford	2	2	.500
12	North Carolina	2	1	.667
13	Boston College	2	2	.500
14	Florida State	2	2	.500
15	NC State	2	2	.500
16	Georgia Tech	1	3	.250
17	Syracuse	1	2	.333

	Independent	W	L	PCT
1	Notre Dame	4	0	1.000
2	UConn	2	2	.500

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	South Florida	4	0	1.000
2	Florida Atlantic	3	1	.750
3	UAB	2	2	.500
4	Army	2	1	.667
5	Memphis	3	1	.750
6	Tulsa	3	1	.750
7	UTSA	3	1	.750
8	East Carolina	2	2	.500
9	North Texas	2	2	.500
10	Tulane	2	2	.500
11	Rice	1	3	.250
12	Charlotte	0	4	.000
13	Temple	1	3	.250
14	Navy	1	2	.333

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Jacksonville State	3	2	.600
2	Liberty	3	1	.750
3	Delaware	2	2	.500
4	Florida International	2	2	.500
5	Kennesaw State	1	3	.250
6	Missouri State	1	3	.250
7	New Mexico State	1	3	.250
8	Sam Houston	1	3	.250
9	Western Kentucky	1	3	.250
10	Middle Tennessee	2	2	.500

	Sun Belt	W	L	PCT
1	James Madison	4	0	1.000
2	Louisiana	3	1	.750
3	Appalachian State	3	1	.750
4	South Alabama	2	2	.500
5	Georgia State	3	1	.750
6	Marshall	3	1	.750
7	Arkansas State	2	2	.500
8	Troy	2	2	.500
9	Georgia Southern	1	3	.250
10	Louisiana Tech	1	2	.333
11	Southern Miss	1	3	.250
12	Coastal Carolina	1	3	.250
13	Old Dominion	1	3	.250
14	Louisiana-Monroe	0	4	.000

	Mountain West	W	L	PCT
1	North Dakota State	4	0	1.000
2	UNLV	2	2	.500
3	Wyoming	2	2	.500
4	Air Force	2	1	.667
5	New Mexico	3	1	.750
6	San Jose State	2	2	.500
7	UTEP	1	3	.250
8	Northern Illinois	0	4	.000
9	Nevada	1	3	.250
10	Hawai'i	1	3	.250