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per Sid:
I have covered Gophers football for 75 years, and I have never seen a display like I saw after P.J. Fleck’s 17th-ranked squad defeated No. 4 Penn State 31-26 on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.
It’s one of the greatest victories in program history.
Bowl representatives from both the Orange Bowl and the Citrus Bowl were at the game and they told me the Gophers are a top candidate to play in either of those stellar games.
Fleck told me during the week that the game was going to come down to which team limited mistakes. The fact that the game was decided on a an interception by Jordan Howden in the end zone — with Penn State driving with a chance to win — showed that the Gophers coach was right.
The Gophers won the turnover battle 3-1, and that made all the difference in a game that saw Penn State total 518 yards of offense.
“We knew we had to be able to play our style of football,” Fleck said. “There was nothing different about it. It had to be us. We didn’t have to do anything different, we just had to be able to do it better than we did the week before. I know that sounds cliché and coach-speak and gimmicky, but at the end of the day it’s really not — it’s how you win football games.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-put-together-a-historic-performance-vs-penn-state/564712901/
Go Gophers!!
I have covered Gophers football for 75 years, and I have never seen a display like I saw after P.J. Fleck’s 17th-ranked squad defeated No. 4 Penn State 31-26 on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.
It’s one of the greatest victories in program history.
Bowl representatives from both the Orange Bowl and the Citrus Bowl were at the game and they told me the Gophers are a top candidate to play in either of those stellar games.
Fleck told me during the week that the game was going to come down to which team limited mistakes. The fact that the game was decided on a an interception by Jordan Howden in the end zone — with Penn State driving with a chance to win — showed that the Gophers coach was right.
The Gophers won the turnover battle 3-1, and that made all the difference in a game that saw Penn State total 518 yards of offense.
“We knew we had to be able to play our style of football,” Fleck said. “There was nothing different about it. It had to be us. We didn’t have to do anything different, we just had to be able to do it better than we did the week before. I know that sounds cliché and coach-speak and gimmicky, but at the end of the day it’s really not — it’s how you win football games.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-put-together-a-historic-performance-vs-penn-state/564712901/
Go Gophers!!