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Early preview: Gophers open as favorites over Virginia Tech in Duke's Mayo Bowl
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Can Minnesota extend its bowl winning streak to six?

on Jan. 3 in the Duke's Mayo Bowl in Charlotte, N.C. Early betting odds view Minnesota as a 4.5-point favorite.

"I don't know much about their football team, no disrespect there, but I just haven't started studying them just yet," Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck said on Sunday. "There's five or six teams that people talk about in 3-4 destinations, you'd be getting ahead on 20 teams. We're focusing on our team right now. But, I do know if you go back and look at their stats and all the close games they've lost, this is easily a team that could be 10-2...

"He was the defensive coordinator at Penn State when we played them here in 2019. I went out to visit Penn State a few years ago and got a chance to see him when he was out there," Fleck said. "He's a really good defensive mind, does a really good job. Coming from the James Franklin tree, you're going to be incredibly organized, you're going to have a really good team that plays incredibly hard. I mean, you're going to fly around.

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