When the Gophers take to the Ohio Stadium field Saturday, they will be playing the third-ranked Buckeyes, the reigning Big Ten champions with serious College Football Playoff aspirations. The Gophers? Well, they’ve given up 90 points in back-to-back Big Ten losses and enter the game as 29½-point underdogs. Quite simply, a Minnesota win would go down as the upset of the season in college football. “You can get caught up in the big stadium and all the fans and that, and just them being the No. 3 team in the nation right now,” Gophers senior linebacker Blake Cashman said. “But you’ve just got to forget about that and understand they’re a football team, just like us. They sweat just like we do, they bleed like we do, they went through two-a-days just like we did.”
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