The 2006 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the college football season of 2006–2007. Coached by Glen Mason, the Gophers played their home games at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as they had since Memorial Stadium closed after the 1981 season.
Mason was fired on December 31, 2006, two days after the Gophers' epic collapse in the last 20 minutes of the Insight Bowl against Texas Tech, which saw Minnesota blow a 38–7 lead to lose 44–41 in overtime. The Tech comeback was the biggest in NCAA Division I-A postseason history.
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—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
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But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
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—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)