The Golden Gophers are the football team of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. They compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the NCAA and play in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference.
Minnesota claims 7 national championships, winning the most recent of these titles in 1960. The Gophers have a longstanding rivalry with Wisconsin, and their rivalry game is the most-played of any in the FBS. The winner of this game receives Paul Bunyan's Axe.
