It will be a rare edition of Late Night with Gopher Football on Saturday when Minnesota faces Cal in Berkeley, Calif.

Make that a very late night.

The contest will kick off at 7:30 p.m. local time -- 9:30 p.m. CT -- and likely will not end much before 1 a.m. for folks watching back home in the Twin Cities. Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck said he has gone over the best way to prepare for the late start with a sleep doctor.

"We have a certain process that we do any time when we're heading to different time zones," Fleck said. "We gained a ton of data and then we put together the best plan we possibly can to make sure that we can play our best football from 9:30 Central to almost 1 a.m. Central on our bodies. There's a lot of things we have to do for that to happen, not only just the footbal

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