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The defending state champion and runner-up, Gophers basketball commit Cedric Tomes and future Iowa State teammates are in the spotlight in Friday's Strib Varsity Class 6A football livestreams.

After a Jeykll and Hyde showing the past two weeks, it'll be interesting to see which Minnesota Gophers team shows up on Saturday against Michigan State.

Try as they might to identify quarterbacks of the future, the Vikings are usually better with quarterbacks of the past.

J.J. McCarthy is back at starting QB for the Vikings, facing a tall task against his former Michigan teammate Aidan Hutchinson and the Lions.

The Wild have lost five games in a row, including the first four in a six-game homestand. They were drubbed 4-1 by the Penguins on Thursday.

After being with the Gophers program for seven seasons, Joe Rossi left to become Michigan State's defensive coordinator. He returns with the Spartans to Huntington Bank Stadium on Saturday.

Mason Moe and Brodie Ziemer scored for the Gophers, who have lost six of their first nine games to start the season.

Pittsburgh won 4-1, breaking a 1-1 tie with third period goals from Bryan Rust, Anthony Mantha and Ben Kindel.

Detroit has rolled to a 5-2 record despite having to replace Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson, who both moved to NFL head coaching jobs.

Kansas City faces Buffalo in a classic; Josh Allen won the past four regular season meetings, but Patrick Mahomes won the past four playoff games.