This weekend, the Minnesota Golden Gophers will look to beat the Iowa Hawkeyes for the first time in the P.J. Fleck era. If the Gophers are going to do so, it will take a strong defensive effort from the Golden Gophers and require Joe Rossi's unit to play a physical and fundamentally sound game against the run.
There's no sugarcoating it, the Iowa Hawkeyes have one of the worst offenses in all of college football, and it's an offense that is nearly completely one dimensional. The Hawkeyes this season is averaging just under 250 yards per game, including just 130 rushing yards per game and 3.90 yards per carry.