The Minnesota Golden Gophers (9-4) capped their season with an 18-6 win over the West Virginia Mountaineers (6-7) Tuesday night in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. It was a bittersweet night as the Gophers bid farewell to a number of seniors who have been impact players throughout their careers at Minnesota, but there were plenty of highlights for the maroon and gold.
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Daniel Faalele’s first career touchdown. The cherry on top was that a West Virginia player saw Faalele lined up at fullback and immediately panicked, calling a timeout. But whatever the Mountaineers discussed during the break was for naught, as Minnesota came out of the timeout in the same formation and ran the same play, allowing Faalele to rumble into the end zone.