The Golden Gophers football team will play a solid team from the SEC … in a decade.
Minnesota announced Wednesday that it’s added a future two-game series against Mississippi State for the 2026 and 2027 seasons. This is a fairly big move considering the Gophers don’t normally play really good teams during the non-conference schedule. TCU in 2015 and USC in 2012 were difficult opponents, but the majority of the non-conference opponents, like most teams, are pretty weak.
Mississippi State, down this year at 3-5, has been to six straight bowl games. In 2014 they went to the Orange Bowl and were ranked No. 1 in the AP poll for a short time.
The series will bring the Bulldogs to TCF Bank Stadium in 2026 and back to Mississippi in 2027.
Mississippi State will be Minnesota’s first regular-season SEC opponent since Vanderbilt in 1959. The most recent game against an SEC member was in 2015 when the Gophers lost to Missouri in the Citrus Bowl.
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— Minnesota Football (@GopherFootball) November 2, 2016
The agreement with the Bulldogs comes after the Gophers announced last week an agreement to a home-and-series with BYU in 2020 as well as future games with Colorado and Georgia Southern.
