Leidner ran 13 yards for a touchdown with 4 26 remaining, and the Golden Gophers held on for a 21-14 win over Central Michigan in the Quick Lane Bowl on Monday night in Detroit.
Playing inhospitable hosts, the Boston College Eagles sent the Minnesota Golden Gophers on their way with a 5-2 whipping Saturday in Worcester, Mass.
Some lay their towels in the grassy dunes, sheltering in the sand's folds like gophers on a prairie.
Had the Wildcats fallen to the Golden Gophers on Saturday, reaching nine wins would have necessitated upsetting the Buckeyes, who routed Northwestern, 87-54, in December.
But, in early June of that year, when they were finally able to set foot on the mountain, they saw ants, beetles, aphids, and pocket gophers on the move.
In the absence of gophers on the island, individuals with reduced deterrence and tolerance would have a selective advantage over those retaining defenses against gophers.
At Enterprise there were graffiti marks in the bathrooms, holes in the ceilings and gopher holes on the athletic field until NBC's cameras and corporate sponsors arrived.
For the most part, it has worked, although there was a day when the Gottliebs heard loud hisses coming from the entrance hall of the house and found all four cats surrounding a three-foot gopher snake on the tiled floor.
This model can be used to predict the distribution of special status species that depend on gophers, and can be used to guide conservation efforts by increasing the spatial extent of non-cultivated gopher habitat on suitable areas intervening alfalfa fields.
