Minnesota·Big Ten

2019 — The Ten-Win Year

Minnesota's 2019 season (11-2) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 11-2
Final result 11-win season Won the Outback Bowl
AP final #16 post-bowls
SP+ +8.1 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Sout Sta 28-21 W @ Fres Sta 38-35 W vs Geor Sou 35-32 W @ Purdue 38-31 W vs Illinois 40-17 W vs Nebraska 34-7 W @ Rutgers 42-7 W vs Maryland 52-10 W vs Penn St 31-26 L @ Iowa 19-23 W @ Northw 38-22 L vs Wiscon 17-38 W @ Auburn 31-24 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2019.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2019 season's largest margin: Minnesota 52, Maryland 10. A 42-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Minnesota 17, Wisconsin 38. A 21-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Minnesota beat Auburn 31-24 in the postseason.

"Row the boat"
— Minnesota fanbase voice · 2019· synthesized
What it meant

2019 is a middle chapter for Minnesota — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.