  We study holographic superconductors in five dimensional
Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity both numerically and analytically. We find the
critical temperature of the superconductor decreases as backreaction is
increased, although the effect of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling is more subtle: the
critical temperature first decreases then increases as the coupling tends
towards the Chern-Simons value in a backreaction dependent fashion. We compute
the conductivity of the system, finding the energy gap, and show that the
effect of both backreaction and higher curvature is to increase the gap ratio
$\omega_g/T_c$, thus there is no universal relation for these superconductors.
