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1993 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1993
team	Minnesota Golden Gophers
sport	football
conference	Big Ten Conference
short_conf	Big Ten
record	4–7
conf_record	3–5
head_coach	Jim Wacker
hc_year	2nd
off_coach	Bob DeBesse
oc_year	2nd
def_coach	Marc Dove
dc_year	2nd
captain	Dennis Cappella
captain2	Antonio Carter
captain3	Russ Heath
captain4	Robert Rogers
stadium	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome

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.

Offensive guard Rob Rogers and wide receiver Omar Douglas were named All-Big Ten second team. Defensive back Justin Conzemius, wide receiver Omar Douglas and linebacker Jeff Rosga were all named second team Academic All-Americans. 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.

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

The total home attendance for the season was 239,973, which averaged to 39,995 per game.

Schedule

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Game summaries

Purdue

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)

Wisconsin

Roster

References

"1993 Minnesota Golden Gophers Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC.
Keiser, Jeff. (June 2017). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf6/80499.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{dead link).
Keiser, Jeff. (June 2017). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf6/80499.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{dead link).
Keiser, Jeff. (June 2017). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf6/80499.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{dead link).
Keiser, Jeff. (September 2018). ["2007 Media Guide"](http://www.gophersports.com//pdf3/80498.pdf?SPSID=39281&SPID=3280&DB_OEM_ID=8400 }}{{Dead link).
Jon Roe. (October 24, 1993). "Gophers shock Badgers: 'U' holds on, upsets No. 15 Wisconsin". Star Tribune.
Vic Feuerherd. (October 24, 1993). "UW gives one away: Six turnovers spell defeat". Wisconsin State Journal.
Jon Roe. (November 14, 1993). "The final: 58-7 -- and it wasn't ''that'' close". Star Tribune.
[https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/10/sports/college-football-purdue-scores-56-and-loses.html NY Times]. Retrieved 2015-Sep-06.

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