Northwestern answered Minnesota’s touchdown with one of their own, taking the ball 69 yards in seven plays. The drive concluded with Dan Persa finding Jeremy Ebert from 25 yards out as the Wildcats burned the Minnesota blitz for the score.
The Wildcats went for a two-point conversion to tie the score, but Persa’s pass fell incomplete in the end zone, and the Gophers retain their two-point advantage at 28-26.