The Gophers spent Saturday’s second half failing to stop the Iowa Hawkeyes from running the football and leaving Minnesota with Floyd of Rosedale. As the bronzed pig trophy headed south after a

According to PFF, Aireontae Ersery and Kerry Brown were the top performers on offense and defense, respectively. Their continued emergence could help Minnesota as they go into a difficult stretch of their schedule beginning with next week's game at Michigan.

On Saturday night against Iowa, it was the Gophers that were absorbing body blows from Iowa, and the result was a 31-14 Hawkeyes victory sparked by a dominant second half in front of 52,048 at Huntington Bank Stadium.

There were some early positives, plenty of negatives and no shortage of things that stood out from the rivalry game. Here are five of those things that stood out from the Gophers' loss: Johnson scored the game's opening touchdown,

The Minnesota Gophers were stomped in the 2nd half Saturday vs the Iowa Hawkeyes. Here's what we learned in embarrassing defeat.