Minneapolis, MN (My Sportsbook) - The University of Minnesota is set to name Tim Brewster its new head football coach.

Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi offered Brewster the position late Monday night and he accepted Tuesday morning. The school will introduce him at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.

Brewster was most recently the Denver Broncos tight ends coach but has a strong college background.

The 46-year old Brewster was an assistant to Mack Brown at North Carolina and Texas, and was credited for recruiting a number of the players on the Longhorns' 2005 national championship team.

Brewster also has experience in the Big Ten as a player. He was a two-time All-Big Ten selection at Illinois and captained the 1983 Illini team that played in the 1984 Rose Bowl.

Brewster takes over the Minnesota program from Glen Mason, who was fired after a historic 44-41 overtime loss to Texas Tech in the Insight Bowl. The Gophers led 38-7 in the third quarter, but somehow managed to blow the 31-point advantage, suffering the biggest collapse in Division I-A bowl history.

Mason led the Golden Gophers to a 64-57 record in 10 seasons, but was 3-4 in bowls.

Inheriting a perennial Big Ten bottom-feeder, Mason suffered through 3-9 and 5-6 finishes in 1997 and 1998 before turning the program around in 1999, as Minnesota went 8-4.

Mason's best season came in 2003, when the Golden Gophers finished 10-3, and won a Sun Bowl matchup with Oregon.