#20 Minnesota Golden Gophers

Team

	GP	PTS	YDS	PLY	AVG	RUSH YDS	RUSH ATT	RUSH AVG	PASS YDS	PASS ATT	PASS AVG	1DWN	RUSH 1DWN	PASS 1DWN	PEN 1DWN	PEN	PEN YDS
Team	13	503	6,430	970	6.6	3,759	683	5.5	2,671	287	9.3	326	199	116	116	75	658
Team Rank		8th	7th	18th	5th	3rd	6th	5th	61st	108th	2nd	5th	2nd	64th	64th	35th	44th
Opponent	13	285	4,425		4.9	1,595	452	3.5	2,830	454	6.2	258	107	133	133	59	423
Opponent Rank		37th	41st		32nd	31st	22nd	38th	66th	99th	22nd	76th	61st	90th	90th	116th	117th
Net		+218	+2,005	+970	+1.7	+2,164	+231	+2.0	-159	-167	+3.1	+68	+92	-17	-17	+16	+235
Net Rank		9th	6th	18th	6th	1st	2nd	4th	75th	110th	3rd	16th	1st	81st	81st	99th	108th

Player Stats

Passing	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	ATT/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
Asad Abdul-Khaliq A. Abdul-Khaliq	13	158	250	63.2	19.2	2,401	9.6	184.7	17	5	162.3	6.8	2.0
Benji Kamrath B. Kamrath	8	16	34	47.1	4.3	250	7.4	31.3	1	2	106.8	2.9	5.9
Marion Barber III M. Barber III	13	1	1	100.0	0.1	15	15.0	1.2	0	0	226.0	0.0	0.0
Thomas Tapeh T. Tapeh	13	1	1	100.0	0.1	5	5.0	0.4	0	0	142.0	0.0	0.0
Bryan Cupito B. Cupito	2	0	1	0.0	0.5	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
Marion Barber III M. Barber III	13	207	15.9	1,196	5.8	92.0	17	220	1,315
Laurence Maroney L. Maroney	13	162	12.5	1,121	6.9	86.2	10	163	1,132
Thomas Tapeh T. Tapeh	13	119	9.2	570	4.8	43.8	11	127	656
Asad Abdul-Khaliq A. Abdul-Khaliq	13	88	6.8	370	4.2	28.5	4	89	375
Terry Jackson II T. Jackson II	6	55	9.2	256	4.7	42.7	1
Jared Ellerson J. Ellerson	12	20	1.7	147	7.4	12.3	1	64	1,056
Brandon Hagen B. Hagen	4	12	3.0	51	4.3	12.8	0
Benji Kamrath B. Kamrath	8	10	1.3	17	1.7	2.1	2
Jakari Wallace J. Wallace	4	3	0.8	29	9.7	7.3	0	6	73
Jason Lamers J. Lamers	3	1	0.3	15	15.0	5.0	0
Quentin White Q. White	3	1	0.3	-3	-3.0	-1.0	0

Receiving	GP	REC	REC/G	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	TD	PLY SCM	YDS SCM
Aaron Hosack A. Hosack	11	51	4.6	814	16.0	74.0	8
Jared Ellerson J. Ellerson	12	44	3.7	909	20.7	75.8	5	64	1,056
Tony Patterson T. Patterson	6	21	3.5	257	12.2	42.8	1
Ben Utecht B. Utecht	9	18	2.0	289	16.1	32.1	2
Marion Barber III M. Barber III	13	13	1.0	119	9.2	9.2	0	220	1,315
Matt Spaeth M. Spaeth	8	12	1.5	98	8.2	12.3	0
Thomas Tapeh T. Tapeh	13	8	0.6	86	10.8	6.6	0	127	656
Jakari Wallace J. Wallace	4	3	0.8	44	14.7	11.0	1	6	73
Jarod Posthumus J. Posthumus	3	2	0.7	21	10.5	7.0	1
Laurence Maroney L. Maroney	13	1	0.1	11	11.0	0.8	0	163	1,132
Logan Payne L. Payne	2	1	0.5	11	11.0	5.5	0
Keith Matthews K. Matthews	1	1	1.0	7	7.0	7.0	0
Asad Abdul-Khaliq A. Abdul-Khaliq	13	1	0.1	5	5.0	0.4	0	89	375

Defense	GP	INT	YDS	AVG
Justin Isom J. Isom	4	4	47	11.8
Eli Ward E. Ward	4	3	35	11.7
Justin Fraley J. Fraley	3	2	0	0
Trumaine Banks T. Banks	1	1	0	0
Terrance Campbell T. Campbell	2	1	0	0

Scoring	GP	RUSH	REC	TOT	FGM	XPM	XP2	PTS
Marion Barber III M. Barber III	13	17	0	17			0	102
Rhys Lloyd R. Lloyd	13			0	14	59	0	101
Laurence Maroney L. Maroney	13	10	0	11			0	66
Thomas Tapeh T. Tapeh	13	11	0	11			0	66
Aaron Hosack A. Hosack	11		8	8			0	48
Jared Ellerson J. Ellerson	12	1	5	6			0	36
Asad Abdul-Khaliq A. Abdul-Khaliq	13	4	0	4			2	28
Benji Kamrath B. Kamrath	8	2		2			0	12
Ben Utecht B. Utecht	9		2	2			0	12
Terry Jackson II T. Jackson II	6	1		1			0	6
Tony Patterson T. Patterson	6		1	1			0	6
John Pawielski J. Pawielski	2			1			0	6
Jarod Posthumus J. Posthumus	3		1	1			0	6
Jakari Wallace J. Wallace	4	0	1	1			0	6
Ryan Donahue R. Donahue	1			0		1	0	1
Ryan Duffy R. Duffy	1			0		1	0	1

Returns	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR TD
Marion Barber III M. Barber III	13	8	172	21.5	0	28	405	14.5	0
Laurence Maroney L. Maroney	13	16	406	25.4	1
Quentin White Q. White	3	3	35	11.7	0	2	19	9.5	0
Matt Spaeth M. Spaeth	8	3	49	16.3	0
Logan Payne L. Payne	2					2	11	5.5	0
Brandon Owens B. Owens	1	1	20	20.0	0
Kyle McKenzie K. McKenzie	2	1	15	15.0	0
Jarod Posthumus J. Posthumus	3	1	7	7.0	0
Jason Lamers J. Lamers	3	1	3	3.0	0
Mario Reese M. Reese	2	1	1	1.0	0

Kicking	GP	FGM	FGA	FG%	XPM	XPA	XP%	PTS
Rhys Lloyd R. Lloyd	13	14	18	77.8	59	61	96.7	101
Ryan Donahue R. Donahue	1				1	1	100.0
Ryan Duffy R. Duffy	1				1	1	100.0

Punting	GP	PUNT	YDS	AVG
Rhys Lloyd R. Lloyd	13	40	1,569	39.2
Ben Utecht B. Utecht	9	3	114	38.0
Mark Rivers M. Rivers	1	2	85	42.5

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CFB 2026 Leaders

Pass Yards Leaders

1,519

Jackson

1,499

Maiava

1,453

Jennings

Rush Yards Leaders

644

Sheppard

600

Baugh

592

Riley

Rec Yards Leaders

617

Smith

585

Legree

564

Toney

Pass TD Leaders

14

Taylor

14

Heintschel

14

Mensah

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

9.0

9.8

10.3

11.0

Total Yards Rankings

588.8

550.8

548.3

533.3

532.8

524.6

Rush Yards Rankings

355.7

333.7

294.8

281.5

281.3

Pass Yards Rankings

392.5

365.3

365.0

361.3

346.5

340.0

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	Northwestern	3	1	.750
11	Michigan	3	1	.750
12	Washington	3	1	.750
13	Illinois	2	2	.500
14	Maryland	2	2	.500
15	Michigan State	2	2	.500
16	Purdue	1	3	.250
17	Rutgers	1	3	.250
18	Penn State	3	2	.600

	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

	Conference USA	W	L	PCT
1	Liberty	4	1	.800
2	Jacksonville State	3	2	.600
3	New Mexico State	2	3	.400
4	Florida International	2	2	.500
5	Kennesaw State	1	3	.250
6	Missouri State	1	3	.250
7	Sam Houston	1	3	.250
8	Middle Tennessee	2	2	.500
9	Delaware	2	3	.400
10	Western Kentucky	1	4	.200

	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

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

	Atlantic Coast	W	L	PCT
1	Pittsburgh	5	0	1.000
2	Miami	4	0	1.000
3	Clemson	3	1	.750
4	Duke	4	0	1.000
5	Virginia	3	1	.750
6	Wake Forest	3	1	.750
7	Louisville	2	2	.500
8	Virginia Tech	4	1	.800
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

	American Athletic	W	L	PCT
1	South Florida	4	0	1.000
2	Florida Atlantic	3	1	.750
3	North Texas	3	2	.600
4	UAB	2	2	.500
5	Army	2	1	.667
6	Memphis	3	1	.750
7	UTSA	3	1	.750
8	East Carolina	2	2	.500
9	Tulane	2	2	.500
10	Rice	1	3	.250
11	Charlotte	0	4	.000
12	Tulsa	3	2	.600
13	Temple	1	3	.250
14	Navy	1	2	.333

	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