We're down to 50 days away!
Greg Larson, 1960 First Team All Big Ten, 1960 National Champion
Bill Light, 1971 First Team All Big Ten
Jack Lynn, 2015 All Big Ten Honorable Mention
Nathan Roy, 2025 FWAA Freshman All American
51 Days Out.
The late Gary Tinsley, who passed away at 22 after his senior season.
I remember it hitting me pretty hard when he passed away. I was about the same age and also set for college graduation that spring in 2012.
From the last game of his career:
A few more players
Darrell Reid...
Bruce Smith, 1940 National Champion, 1940 Second Team All Big Ten, 1941 National Champion, 1941 Heisman Trophy Winner, 1941 First Team All Big Ten, 1941 All American, College Football Hall of Famer.
Always makes me excited to see Nebraska crash and burn whenever these come out. Happened last year, too. I snapped this last year at a sports bar.
They probably had similar hype going into 2022 before dropping their first game in Dublin to Northwestern.
Had been thinking about all time football for this. I'd say for football there could be two.
Classic:
Bronko Nagurski
Bobby Bell
Bruce Smith
Sandy Stephens
Modern
Greg Eslinger
Antoine Winfield Jr.
Mohamed Ibrahim
Tyler Johnson
Probably could be plenty of debate for the modern era. Darrell...
55 on a Friday.
Cedric McKinley
Theiren Cockran, 2013 Second Team All Big Ten, 2014 All Big Ten Honorable Mention, 2015 All Big Ten Honorable Mention
Connor Mayes
Mariano Sori-Marin, 2021 All Big Ten Honorable Mention, 2022 Third Team All Big Ten
Jaylin Hicks
I do feel the national media is usually rather hesitant when predicting the Gophers because of previous history, too. Years where Minnesota was expected to compete at a higher level because of returning talent or coming off a good season, the Gophers usually regressed or didn't go as far as...
It's an extra lazy article because the writer doesn't even have an original thought. It's all based on the CBS Sports piece published earlier. One of use could write the same article based on Sporting News' coverage of CBS Sports' predictions.
According to Sporting News’ article, which itself...
Looks like it's a Mississippi State writer who penned it. Note at the end the article that it originally appeared in Mississippi State's 247 Sports' page. Gopher Gazette just reshared it.
I still think it largely makes sense, though. The blue bloods are ahead, which is expected. I suppose it's...