page_title: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
section_title: College football
hierarchical_section_title: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome / Stadium usage / College football
caption_attribution_description: English: The Metrodome well before the 91st battle for the Little Brown Jug: a college football game between the visiting Michigan Wolverines and the Minnesota Golden Gophers on November 8, 2008. Michigan would win, 29-6; as a result, the Wolverines could claim to have never lost in the Metrodome during the Gophers time there.
context_page_description: The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was a domed sports stadium located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. It opened in 1982 as a replacement for Metropolitan Stadium, the former home of the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings and Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins, and Memorial Stadium, the former home of the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team.
  The Metrodome was the home of the Vikings from 1982 to 2013, the Twins from 1982 to 2009, the National Basketball Association's Minnesota Timberwolves in their 1989–90 inaugural season, the Golden Gophers football team until 2008 and the occasional home of the Golden Gophers baseball team from 1985 to 2010 and their full-time home in 2012. It was also the home of the Minnesota Strikers of the North American Soccer League in 1984. On January 18, 2014, the Metrodome roof was deflated, signaling the beginning of demolition work. The Vikings played at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium for the 2014 and 2015 NFL seasons, ahead of the planned opening of U.S. Bank Stadium in 2016.
context_section_description: Beginning in the 1982 college football season, the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers began playing their home football games at the Metrodome. The first game was a 57–3 victory over the Ohio Bobcats on September 11, 1982. The Gophers football record at the Metrodome 1982–2008 (27 seasons) 169 total games 87–80–2 .521%. 109 Big Ten Conference games 41–66–2 .385%
  With the Gophers' move to TCF Bank Stadium, only two NCAA Division I FBS football programs now play in domed stadiums. Idaho and Syracuse have their own such facilities on campus (the Kibbie Dome and the Carrier Dome, respectively). When the Gophers first moved to the Metrodome, the NFL-class facilities were seen as an improvement over the aging Memorial Stadium. Initially, attendance increased. However, fans waxed nostalgic over fall days playing outdoors on campus. TCF Bank Stadium now provides an outdoor, on-campus venue for the team.
caption: The Metrodome in 2008, before the 91st battle for the Little Brown Jug rivalry game between the Minnesota Golden Gophers and Michigan Wolverines.
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