Minnesota Golden Gophers vs Nebraska Cornhuskers Match Player Stats On Nov 22, 2014

SportsDirect Inc. staff
Nov 22, 2014

Minnesota 28, No. 19 Nebraska 24: Quarterback Mitch Leidner rushed for 111 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 3:25 remaining, as the visiting Golden Gophers rallied to edge the Cornhuskers in Big Ten play.

Leidner, who ran in from the 2 for the winning score, carried the ball 22 times and completed 8-of-17 passes for 135 yards as Minnesota (8-3, 5-2 Big Ten) stayed in the hunt for a spot in the conference championship game. Golden Gophers leading rusher David Cobb ran for 80 yards and a touchdown before leaving with a leg injury in the third quarter.

Ameer Abdullah rushed for 98 yards and scored his 20th touchdown of the season for Nebraska (8-3, 4-3), which lost to Minnesota for the first time at home since 1960. Tommy Armstrong Jr. went 12-of-19 through the air for 223 yards for the Cornhuskers, who fumbled with 1:19 remaining in the contest before the Gophers ran out the clock.

Cobb burst 17 yards for a score early in the second half and Rodrick Williams Jr. swept into the end zone on fourth down from 19 yards out to pull Minnesota within 24-21 with 1:47 left in the third. The Gophers drove 80 yards in 10 plays for the decisive score, including a key 38-yard pass from Leidner to KJ Maye on third down.

Abdullah scooted 2 yards to open the scoring and Minnesota answered with a nine-play, 71-yard drive as Leidner bulled in from the 1 with 4:43 left in the first period. Armstrong hit De’Mornay Pierson-El for an 18-yard scoring strike and Nate Gerry scampered 85 yards after Randy Gregory blocked a field goal to give the Cornhuskers a 21-7 lead at halftime.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Nebraska WR Kenny Bell, the school’s all-time leader in receiving yards, was lost to an injury in the first quarter after his 73-yard reception set up Abdullah’s touchdown and did not return. … Cobb is 35 yards shy of breaking Laurence Maroney’s single-season school rushing record (1,464) set in 2005. … Minnesota is 9-4 in its last 13 Big Ten games.