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Gophers football building 2023 recruiting class with big in-state linemen

The Gophers football program wants players from the state of Minnesota to be the foundation of each recruiting class. The rub is the state’s talent base doesn’t run more than a few inches deep, so the U must look elsewhere for the majority of signees every year. In head coach P.J. Fleck’s six recruiting classes since taking over the program in 2017, the U has signed an average of 3.6 scholarship players from Minnesota, ranging from a high of five in 2017 to a low of two in 2021.