Minnesota Welcomes Invitation to Take part in Fee Bowl

The College of Minnesota soccer staff has accepted an invite to compete within the Fee Bowl on Dec. 26, 2025, in Phoenix. The Gophers will face New Mexico at 3:30 p.m. CT at Chase Subject on ESPN. This would be the first-ever assembly between Minnesota and New Mexico. 

The Fee Bowl would be the twenty sixth all-time bowl recreation for Minnesota. The Gophers most lately performed within the Fee Bowl in 2021 once they beat West Virginia 18-6 on Dec. 28.

Minnesota has gained eight straight bowl video games courting again to the 2015 Fast Lane Bowl. That’s the longest lively streak within the nation, the longest in Large Ten historical past and tied for the fourth longest in school soccer historical past. 

The Gophers are 6-0 in bowl video games underneath head coach P.J. Fleck, as they posted wins towards Virginia Tech (2025 Duke’s Mayo Bowl), Bowling Inexperienced (2023 Fast Lane Bowl), Syracuse (2022 Unhealthy Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl), West Virginia (2021 Assured Fee Bowl), Auburn (2020 Outback Bowl) and Georgia Tech (2018 Fast Lane Bowl).

Fleck’s six bowl wins are essentially the most at school historical past by a coach and his six bowl wins symbolize 46% of Minnesota’s total 13 bowl wins as a program.

Since Fleck arrived in Minnesota in 2017, the Gophers have gone 26-4 towards non-conference opponents, together with bowl video games, which at 86.7% is the sixth-best successful share within the FBS in that span behind solely Georgia (95.0%), Maryland (88.9%), Alabama (88.1%), Penn State (87.9%) and Kentucky (86.8%). 

Tickets for the Fee Bowl are on sale now.