The football game between Maryland and Minnesota on Saturday in Minneapolis will certainly bring back some memories for first-year Gophers coach P.J. Fleck.
As a senior at Northern Illinois in 2003, Fleck played a major role in his team’s 20-13 season-opening overtime victory against the 15th-ranked Terps in DeKalb, Ill.
"We expected to win this game, we came in thinking we were going to win, and we did," Fleck, who caught 13 passes for 116 yards and a touchdown, said afterward.
Said Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen at the time: "I knew this would be a close game.