Gopher football team looks faces big challenge in Big Ten's Iowa Hawkeyes

The Vikings have announced that Matt Cassell will start at quarterback on Sunday in the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in London. First string quarterback Christian Ponder has a rib injury. And the University of Minnesota football team begins the Big Ten portion of their schedule when they host Iowa tomorrow at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

MPR's Phil Picardi spoke with Howard Sinker about football, a digital sports editor for the Star Tribune, about those stories.

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