Minnesota Football Schedule Breakdown: Sure Wins, Potential Losses, Big Ten Teams Missed

Pete Fiutak

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In the new 18-team Big Ten, it’s all about the schedules, who everyone misses and where, and when the nasty games are. You know who the biggest teams are - some get a much bigger break than others.

No game is a 100% lock in the Big Ten, and there are always surprises, but for the most part, what are the relatively certain wins on the 2024 Minnesota football schedule? What are the likely underdog games - the true 50/50 games are left alone - and which Big Ten teams does Minnesota miss?

Minnesota Football Schedule: Relatively certain Golden Gopher wins

Nevada, Rhode Island

Minnesota Football Schedule: Relatively certain Golden Gopher underdog games

at Illinois, at Michigan, Penn State, at UCLA, USC, at Wisconsin

Minnesota Football Schedule: Who do the Golden Gophers miss in the Big Ten?

Indiana, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Purdue, Washington

2024 Minnesota Football Schedule

Aug 29 North Carolina
Sept 7 Rhode Island
Sept 14 Nevada
Sept 21 Iowa
Sept 28 at Michigan
Oct 5 USC
Oct 12 at UCLA
Oct 19 OPEN DATE
Oct 26 Maryland
Nov 2 at Illinois
Nov 9 at Rutgers
Nov 16 OPEN DATE
Nov 23 Penn State
Nov 30 at Wisconsin

Pete Fiutak

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Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com starting in 1998, Pete Fiutak was a college football part of the very start of Rivals, Scout, the FOXSports.com relaunch, Stadium/Campus Insiders, and the USA TODAY College Wire sites. 

He was the first ever on-air guest on CBS Sports Network, was a talking head for five years at Stadium, and did in-stadium TV work at the first five College Football Playoff National Championships. But all anyone really seems to care about is that he did all the player ratings for various college football and basketball video games for four years in the 2000s.