2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team information
American college football season
2003Minnesota Golden Gophers football
Sun Bowl champion
Sun Bowl, W 31–30 vs. Oregon
Conference
Big Ten Conference
Ranking
Coaches
No. 17
AP
No. 20
Record
10–3 (5–3 Big Ten)
Head coach
Glen Mason (7th season)
Co-offensive coordinator
Mitch Browning (4th as OC, 7th overall season)
Co-offensive coordinator
Tony Petersen (4th as OC, 5th overall season)
Defensive coordinator
Greg Hudson (1st as DC, 3rd overall season)
Captain
Asad Abdul-Khaliq, Dan Kwapinski, Ben Utecht, Eli Ward
Home stadium
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
Seasons
← 2002
2004 →
2003 Big Ten Conference football standings
v
t
e
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
W
L
No. 6 Michigan $
7
–
1
10
–
3
No. 4 Ohio State %
6
–
2
11
–
2
No. 18 Purdue
6
–
2
9
–
4
No. 8 Iowa
5
–
3
10
–
3
No. 20 Minnesota
5
–
3
10
–
3
Michigan State
5
–
3
8
–
5
Wisconsin
4
–
4
7
–
6
Northwestern
4
–
4
6
–
7
Penn State
1
–
7
3
–
9
Indiana
1
–
7
2
–
10
Illinois
0
–
8
1
–
11
% – BCS at-large representative
$ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
The 2003 Gopher-Wolverine game.
The 2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their seventh year under head coach Glen Mason, the Golden Gophers compiled a 10–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 503 to 285.[1] The team made an appearance in the Sun Bowl. The 2003 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was ranked 17th in the final USA Today/AFCA Coaches poll and 20th in the final Associated Press poll. This was the most recent season in which Minnesota defeated the Wisconsin Badgers and received Paul Bunyan's Axe until 2018.
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