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 )
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Big East Conference (1979–2013)
2009 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team