FLOYD OF RIDGEDALE - Minnesota and Iowa A&M battle it out every year in MCAA football. The winner of the game earns the right to keep the bronze statue of a pig called “Floyd of Ridgedale.”
The year was 2007, and emotions were running hot heading into the Minnesota-Iowa A&M game. Kevin Kube's Gophers were 3-2, improbably leading the North Star Conference, and Dave Boese's Cowtippers were 3-2, trailing the Gophers by one game in the conference standings.
 The game in 2005 was at Iowa A&M, and the host team's coach made the bold prediction that Iowa A&M fans were keeping their BBQ grills ready for fresh "gopher meat", adding "The fact that this team leads the NSC right now is the biggest travishamockery in college football today."
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Laughing out loud, Minnesota’s Coach replied that the Iowa A&M fans "really would be stupid enough to try and cook gopher meat and eat it. They should just go back to raising their corn and pigs and leave the football to the real men, the men to their north."
Following that statement, Boese sent Kube an email: Iowa A&M folks are excited over your statement about our fans' lack of sense and the fact that raising corn and pigs is all we do well...I will bet you a Minnesota prize hog against an Iowa prize hog that Iowa A&M wins.” And thus, Floyd of Ridgedale was born...
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