Recent content by TwistingMyMelon

Delaware played in a bowl in 2025 (its first FBS season) because there were not enough 6-win teams to fill the bowls. They won it too. I'm glad they changed the rule.

I agree that the defense was erratic last season (after being very good the year before) but I would say the offense mostly was below average throughout the year. Despite having the same records, the 2024 team was much stronger than the 2025 team by the numbers. Defensively, the 2024 team...

On that I agree but I still maintain that the offense was a bigger problem than the defense.

A common sentiment I've seen here over the years is that Nebraska fans live in the past and are delusional about their program's strength. I've perused Nebraska board threads frequently over the last ten years and formerly worked with a number of Nebraska alums and I don't get that impression...

I think you're confused. Minnesota was not 15th in scoring defense in the Big Ten. They were 10th at 22.9 points allowed per game. That's not great (not as good as Fleck's 21, 22, and 24 teams) but it's not bad either. Big Ten teams tend to be good defensive teams overall. Minnesota WAS...

Here's another beautiful piece of hackery (from Maize N Brew) listing Minnesota's schedule as the 13th toughest in the conference: No. 13 - Minnesota Golden Gophers Toughest Games: at Washington, Michigan, Iowa, at Indiana, at Penn State If the expectation for P.J. Fleck is to make a bowl...

I don't think MS State will win that game but they could be better than their record for the last two years suggests. They have a dynamic, dual-threat young QB and a pretty high-octane offense. Their biggest problems recently have been on defense. I think we're fine on defense for the...

"The Gophers have been competitive in recent years, but a step back in the win column signals roster turnover finally catching up with depth issues on both lines." Yet the team is ranked somewhere around 7th in the country by ESPN for returning production. Hacks.

I think that's a fair expectation. I expect that the team should be better than last year considering that they kept the majority of their top performers and picked up some helpful transfers. However, the schedule is tougher than last year. First of all, we have only 4 conference games at...

That's only 8 more spaces and I hope that a team like USC was last season wouldn't make it. Not only did they have a lowly NET ranking, they also finished only 7-13 in conference.

Yeah, I forgot about that. In that case, I would agree that 10 is probable but it could end up being difficult to go beyond that. Lets look at last season. The only conference teams with winning records who were left out were Indiana and USC. Both finished 18-14. USC lost its last 8 games...

We're now in the third year of the 18 team league. 9 teams made the tournament last year and 8 made it the year before. I'd say 12 is a stretch.

Compared to last year's team once the roster of active scholarship players was reduced to 7 players, absolutely. The only players who could be called 4s or 5s were JCJ and Grove and then we had just Grove. Still, there are only 4 players that you could call 4s or 5s on this team (Durkin...

A sentiment occasionally expressed in the past was that NCAA basketball was a coaches' game while the NBA was a players' game. I do wonder in the age of unlimited free agency and well-paid college players if the NCAA has become less of a coaches' game and more of a players' game. I'm often...

Gophers coach P.J. Fleck said the program is handling Lindsey’s discipline internally and that it is ongoing. He would not say if Lindsey would miss any game time as part of any punishment. How about letting him play only the first half of the opener against Eastern Illinois? That should be...