Keep in mind, this was a Minnesota team that went to a bowl the year before.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> 1 2 3 4 F
- - - - --
Ohio 13 0 3 7 23
Minnesota 0 0 14 3 17 </pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ohio-C Brinker 50 pass from D Jackson (kick failed), OU 6-0
Ohio-Mohler 35 pass from C Brinker (Kerr kick), OU 13-0
Minn.-R Johnson 65 pass from Abdul-khaliq (Nystrom kick), OU 13-7
Minnesota-R Johnson 61 pass from Abdul-khaliq (Nystrom kick), MINN 14-13
Ohio-FG Kerr 43, OU 16-14
Ohio-C Brinker 6 run (Kerr kick), OU 23-14
Minnesota-FG Nystrom 47, OU 23-17
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> Ohio Minnesota
First downs 22 14
Rushed-yards 73-363 26-147
Passing yards 90 223
Sacked-yards lost 2-13 2-15
Return yards 0 46
Passes 3-9-0 10-28-1
Punts 8-42.9 5-46.8
Fumbles-lost 2-0 1-1
Penalties-yards 6-50 1-5
Time of possession 40:13 19:47 </pre><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Individual Statistics
RUSHING: Ohio-C Brinker 24-119, K Logan 7-91, D Jackson 20-62,
J Patterson 9-37, R Ray 6-31, J Sherrill 7-23. Minnesota-T
Redmon 12-67, Abdul-khaliq 10-50, Tapeh 4-30.
PASSING: Ohio-D Jackson 2-8-0-55, C Brinker 1-1-0-35.
Minnesota-Abdul-khaliq 10-28-1-223.
RECEIVING: Ohio-C Brinker 1-50, Mohler 1-35, J Sherrill 1-5.
Minnesota-R Johnson 4-144, Mays 3-29, E Jones 2-11, Utecht 1-39.
RECAP....
Halfback Chad Brinker caught a touchdown
pass, threw another and rushed for 119 yards and a score as Ohio
held the ball for more than 40 minutes and recorded a stunning
23-17 victory over Minnesota.
Coming off a 25-15 loss at Iowa State, the Bearcats (1-1) were
three-touchdown underdogs against a Minnesota team that rolled
over Louisiana-Monroe, 47-10, in its season opener.
But Ohio avenged last season's 33-7 defeat with a wishbone
attack that amassed 363 yards on the ground. Dontrell Jackson
completed only 2-of-8 passes, but one of the completions was a
50-yarder to Brinker four minutes into the game that gave the
Bobcats a 6-0 lead.
Brinker threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Joe Mohler before the
first quarter ended, and Ohio took a 13-0 cushion into the
locker room.
But the Golden Gophers (1-1) roared back in the third quarter
behind freshman Asad Abdul-Khaliq, who threw touchdown passes of
65 and 61 yards to Ron Johnson. The scores came on the second
play of consecutive drives.
Unfazed, Ohio answered with a 13-play, 54-yard march that
consumed more than six minutes and ended with Kevin Kerr's
43-yard field goal that put the Bobcats ahead for good, 16-14.
After Minnesota's Dan Nystrom missed a 37-yard field goal
attempt, freshman Keland Logan broke off a 67-yard run to set up
Brinker's six-yard touchdown with 14:42 left in the fourth
quarter.
Nystrom answered with a 47-yard field goal with 4:54 to play,
but the Bobcats were able to run out the clock and defeated the
Gophers for the first time in nine all-time meetings (1-7-1). It
was Ohio's first win over a Big Ten Conference foe since a 14-12
triumph at Northwestern in 1973.
Abdul-Khaliq was only 10-of-28 for 223 yards and two TDs. He
also ran 10 times for 50 yards, but Minnesota committed two
turnovers and was only 3-of-12 on third-down conversions.
