With two games left, Gophers football knows what it needs to do

By Randy Johnson

With two games left, Gophers football knows what it needs to do

"Start fast, accelerate in the middle and finish strong,'' Fleck often says about a philosophy that can apply to both a game and an entire season.

Saturday at SHI Stadium, that mantra was put to the test in a 26-19 loss to Rutgers, a defeat that ended the Gophers' four-game winning streak and left them with a 6-4 overall record and 4-3 mark in the Big Ten entering this week's bye. Instead of sitting alone in fifth place in the conference -- not a bad place for this program to be, considering the Big Ten's top four likely will be in the College Football Playoff -- the Gophers are tied with Iowa for fifth and are a half-game ahead of Illinois and Wisconsin.

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