1993 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

American college football season

1993 Minnesota Golden Gophers football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
Record	4–7 (3–5 Big Ten)
Head coach	Jim Wacker (2nd season)
Offensive coordinator	Bob DeBesse (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Marc Dove (2nd season)
Captain	Dennis Cappella, Antonio Carter, Russ Heath, Robert Rogers
Home stadium	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
Seasons ← 1992 1994 →

1993 Big Ten Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 6 Wisconsin +	6	–	1	–	1	10	–	1	–	1
No. 11 Ohio State +	6	–	1	–	1	10	–	1	–	1
No. 8 Penn State	6	–	2	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
Indiana	5	–	3	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
No. 21 Michigan	5	–	3	–	0	8	–	4	–	0
Illinois	5	–	3	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Michigan State	4	–	4	–	0	6	–	6	–	0
Iowa	3	–	5	–	0	6	–	6	–	0
Minnesota	3	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Northwestern	0	–	8	–	0	2	–	9	–	0
Purdue	0	–	8	–	0	1	–	10	–	0

+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 1993 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach Jim Wacker, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4–7 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 354 to 253.^[1]

Offensive guard Rob Rogers and wide receiver Omar Douglas were named All-Big Ten second team.^[2] Defensive back Justin Conzemius, wide receiver Omar Douglas and linebacker Jeff Rosga were all named second team Academic All-Americans.^[3] Kicker Mike Chalberg, defensive back Justin Conzemius, wide receiver Omar Douglas, offensive lineman Chris Fowlkes, linebacker Peter Hiestand, offensive lineman Todd Jesewitz, linebacker Ben Langford, defensive back Jeff Rosga, linebacker Craig Sauer, tight end Mark Tangen and linebacker Lance Wolkow were named Academic All-Big Ten.^[3]

Omar Douglas was awarded the Bronko Nagurski Award, Bruce Smith Award and Butch Nash Award.^[4] Linebacker Andrew Veit was awarded the Carl Eller Award.^[4] Long snapper Scott Williams was awarded the Bobby Bell Award.^[4] Running back Antonio Carter was awarded the Paul Giel Award.^[4]

The total home attendance for the season was 239,973, which averaged to 39,995 per game.^[5] The season attendance high was against Wisconsin, with 64,798 in attendance.^[5]

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 4	12:00 pm	at No. 17 Penn State	Beaver Stadium University Park, Pennsylvania	MSC	L 20–38	95,387
September 11	6:00 pm	Indiana State*	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis		W 27–10	30,719
September 18	7:00 pm	Kansas State*	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis		L 25–30	36,245
September 25	8:00 pm	at San Diego State*	Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego	KMSP	L 17–48	41,487
October 2	7:00 pm	Indiana	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis		L 19–23	33,315
October 9	6:00 pm	Purdue	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis		W 59–56	31,293
October 16	1:00 pm	at Northwestern	Dyche Stadium Evanston, Illinois		W 28–26	27,814
October 23	6:00 pm	No. 15 Wisconsin	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis (Paul Bunyan's Axe)		W 28–21	64,798
November 6	11:30 am	at Illinois	Memorial Stadium Champaign, Illinois	ESPN	L 20–23	50,192
November 13	11:30 am	Michigan	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis (Little Brown Jug)	ESPN	L 7–58	43,603	^[6]
November 20	1:05 pm	at Iowa	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, Iowa (Floyd of Rosedale)		L 3–21	66,840
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

Game summaries

Purdue

	1	2	3	4	Total
Purdue	14	14	14	14	56
• Minnesota	7	14	28	10	59

Date: October 9
Location: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
Game attendance: 31,293
Game weather: Indoors (dome)

Scoring summary

Q1		PUR	Alstott 15 yard run (Bobich kick)	PUR 7–0

Q1		PUR	Rogers 1 yard run (Bobich kick)	PUR 14–0

Q1		MINN	Douglas 11 yard pass from Eckers (Chalberg kick)	PUR 14–7

Q2		PUR	Alstott 26 yard run (Bobich kick)	PUR 21–7

Q2		MINN	Darkins 1 yard run (Chalberg kick)	PUR 21–14

Q2		PUR	Rogers 1 yard run (Bobich kick)	PUR 28–14

Q2		MINN	Douglas 21 yard pass from Eckers (Chalberg kick)	PUR 28–21

Q3		PUR	Alstott 9 yard pass from Pike (Bobich kick)	PUR 35–21

Q3		MINN	Douglas 31 yard pass from Eckers (Chalberg kick)	PUR 35–28

Q3		PUR	Alstott 11 yard run (Bobich kick)	PUR 42–28

Q3		MINN	Douglas 33 yard pass from Eckers (Chalberg kick)	PUR 42–35

Q3		MINN	Douglas 1 yard pass from Eckers (Chalberg kick)	Tie 42–42

Q3		MINN	Conzemius 55 yard interception return (Chalberg kick)	MINN 49–42

Q4		PUR	Rogers 2 yard run (Bobich kick)	Tie 49–49

Q4		MINN	Garrison 26 yard pass from Eckers (Chalberg kick)	MINN 56–49

Q4		PUR	Alstott 21 yard run (Bobich kick)	Tie 56–56

Q4	:08	MINN	Chalberg 18 yard field goal	MINN 59–56

Scott Eckers 24/36, 402 Yds, 6 TD (school record)
Chris Darkins 30 Rush, 149 Yds, TD
Omar Douglas 8 Rec, 149 Yds, 5 TD (Big Ten record)

^[7]^[8]

Wisconsin

	1	2	3	4	Total
Wisconsin	0	0	14	7	21
• Minnesota	7	14	0	7	28

Date: October 23
Location: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis
Game attendance: 64,798
Game weather: Indoors (dome)

Scoring summary

1	MINN	Darkins 39 yard pass from Eckers (Chalberg kick)	MINN 7-0

2	MINN	Rios 27 yard pass from Eckers (Chalberg kick)	MINN 14-0

2	MINN	Rosga 55 yard interception return (Chalberg kick)	MINN 21-0

3	WIS	Moss 3 yard run (Hall kick)	MINN 21-7

3	WIS	Moss 15 yard run (Hall kick)	MINN 21-14

4	MINN	Darkins 2 yard run (Chalberg kick)	MINN 28-14

4	WIS	Dawkins 16 yard pass from Bevell (Hall kick)	MINN 28-21

^[9]

Roster

1993 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
RB	`44`	Chris Darkins	So
WR	`80`	Omar Douglas	Sr

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
LB	`16`	Craig Sauer	So
DT	`90`	Ed Hawthorne	Jr

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class

Head coach

Jim Wacker

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Roster

References

^ "1993 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
^ Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 180^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 182^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 181^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Keiser, Jeff (2007), 2007 Media Guide (PDF), p. 160^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Jon Roe (November 14, 1993). "The final: 58-7 -- and it wasn't that close". Star Tribune. pp. 1C, 15C – via Newspapers.com.
^ Gainesville Sun. 1993 Oct 10.
^ NY Times. Retrieved 2015-Sep-06.
^ Gainesville Sun. 1993 Oct 24.

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