Gopher football to play USC

by HutchLeaderGuy on Jan 22, 2009 2:48 PM CST

From Marcus Fuller at the Pioneer Press:

The Gophers are finalizing a contract to play a two-year, home-and-home football series against national power Southern California. Minnesota would travel to Los Angeles to play the Trojans in 2010, and USC would face the Gophers at TCF Bank Stadium by 2016.

Boy, that is the year Justin Conzeimus said we were going to the Rose Bowl to Paul Allen. He wasn't kidding. It's just a regular season game.

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UCLA plays at the Rose Bowl, not USC

but this might still be as close as we will ever get to the Rose Bowl

by duckman86 on Jan 22, 2009 3:42 PM CST reply actions

Wow

I like it, though.

by rencito on Jan 22, 2009 4:09 PM CST reply actions

2010

That means 2010 would look like:

TBD
@UNLV
Washington State
@USC

I’m assuming the USC game would be fourth and not first. Otherwise that would be back to back road games out west to start off the season. But if they were back to back, I would probably go to Vegas for the UNLV game, stay in Vegas for a few days and then head to LA for the game at SC the next Saturday. That would be a nice trip!

by rencito on Jan 22, 2009 4:32 PM CST reply actions

Fantastic...

…can’t wait to see the Gophers playing in a game with the Song Girls on the sidelines and Snoop Dogg and Will Ferrell looking on as well.

They very well may lose by 50, but at least we’re playing some good squads.

by JG2112 on Jan 22, 2009 8:27 PM CST reply actions

If you have to choose...

…what trip do you take? Los Angeles or Las Vegas?

I’ve had the Las Vegas trip marked on my calendar for over a year now, but with a USC game in the mix, I might have to make a change. I guess we’ll see what happens.

USC would be cool because we’d be up against a big time opponent, but UNLV combines perhaps the two greatest things in my life: Gophers football and Las Vegas. It’s a tough choice.

by ReelBigChris on Jan 23, 2009 12:02 AM CST reply actions