Badgers on how Gophers won the Axe last year: ‘They beat our butts’

BleedGopher · Thursday at 5:50 PM

Per Greder:

“They beat our butts; they wore us down. They were a better team than we were,” Renfro said Thursday during Big Ten Media Days at Mandalay Bay Resort. “They walked off the field with that Axe.”

Badgers on how Gophers won the Axe last year: ‘They beat our butts’

P.J. Fleck improved to 4-4 against Wisconsin in a dominant win last November.

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Go Gophers!!

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 · Thursday at 5:54 PM

Get used to it.

BilldGopher · Thursday at 7:13 PM

Better than kool-aid...

Bayfield Gopher · Friday at 9:16 AM

I have been to Camp Randall/Gopher games numerous times in the past 4 decades. Our son and my two grandsons were at their first CFB game. They had a ball!. I have never seen CR so quiet and subdued after the beat down last Fall. Badger fans were heading to the exits mid 4th quarter. The Badger 5th Quarter was dull. The Gophers owned CR. It was sweet!

Schnauzer · Friday at 9:34 AM

Its getting pretty rough over there in Wisconsin. They have begun to dig out old replays of the 2005 Gopher/Badger game to get them through these lean times.

stocker08 · Friday at 12:13 PM

Time to put together a streak.

mngg11 · Friday at 12:29 PM

stocker08 said:
Time to put together a streak.

Get a proper gap going again

Spaulding!No! · Friday at 1:55 PM

Turn the clock back 6 years and Koi is a badger or Hawkeye.

Ski-U-Ham · Friday at 2:43 PM

Spaulding!No! said:
Turn the clock back 6 years and Koi is a badger or Hawkeye.

If he wasn't a Gopher he would be setting his sights way higher than WI or IA

MonikerSchmoniker45 · Friday at 2:46 PM

Spaulding!No! said:
Turn the clock back 6 years and Koi is a badger or Hawkeye.

Buckeye....Lauranitis 2.0

Spaulding!No! · Friday at 5:39 PM

MonikerSchmoniker45 said:
Buckeye....Lauranitis 2.0

True.

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 · Friday at 7:01 PM

Ski-U-Ham said:
If he wasn't a Gopher he would be setting his sights way higher than WI or IA

I can't think of an in-state recruit rated as high as Koi going to one of the main rivals. They usually end up at ND, OSU, or a Southern blue blood.

mggoph · Friday at 7:32 PM

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 said:
I can't think of an in-state recruit rated as high as Koi going to one of the main rivals. They usually end up at ND, OSU, or a Southern blue blood.

Does it really matter?

Gophers7NatTitlesBadgers0 · Friday at 8:50 PM

mggoph said:
Does it really matter?

Personally, no it doesn't. The perception by at least one is Koi would be going to wi or IA before PJ became the coach.

Dave H · 2025-07-26T10:58:41-0500

Yeah but Spaulding isn't real

GopherEnEspaña · 2025-07-26T12:12:08-0500

If I love PJ for anything, it's for finally building a roster with just as much, or more, size, athleticism, and talent than Wisconsin. First time I've ever seen us be the real bullies and big-brother the Badgers. Felt good bros.

BilldGopher · 2025-07-26T14:40:14-0500

Need to do the same to I-O-W-A...

BTChamp · 2025-07-26T16:24:31-0500

GopherEnEspaña said:
If I love PJ for anything, it's for finally building a roster with just as much, or more, size, athleticism, and talent than Wisconsin. First time I've ever seen us be the real bullies and big-brother the Badgers. Felt good bros.

So true. And I also believe his quiet recruiting of in state "kids". 8 year olds, 12 year olds and such. He's had 9 years to create the "I want to be a Gopher" mentality. Instead of ndsu, shitsconsin, whyowa getting the northern/outstate kids, they want to be Gophers. Just another small item he's doing. Making it a true state wide team.

Badgers on how Gophers won the Axe last year: ‘They beat our butts’

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