"When you look at them, they're still Iowa. It's Iowa," Fleck said Monday. "You look at everything they lean on, when anything is kind of getting off the tracks, they go right back to what they do and do well and that's run the football."

Minnesota Golden Gophers head football coach P.J. Fleck spoke to reporters this week in preparing for a rivalry matchup against the Iowa Hawkeyes this weekend. The Gophers will try to win games against their border rival in consecutive seasons for the first time since 2010 and 2011.