The 2006 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota as a member of the Big Ten Conference during the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. In their tenth and final year under head coach Glen Mason, the Golden Gophers compiled an overall record of 6–7 with a mark of 3–5 in conference play, tying for sixth place in the Big Ten. Minnesota was invited to the Insight Bowl, where the Golden Gophers lost to Texas Tech. The team played home games at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis. Mason was fired on December 31, two days after the Gophers' epic collapse in the last 20 minutes of the Insight Bowl against Texas Tech, in which Minnesota blew a 38–7 lead to lose 44–41 in overtime. The comeback was the biggest in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) postseason history. Wiki link