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So, which one is it? "Rankings typically don't mean crap" or "rankings really don't matter that much?" Those two statements don't mean the same thing. Apparently, that escaped you. I'll believe that the Gophers are favored at Iowa when I see it.

Yeah, that one always cracks me up. If I could dedicate myself to being enraged about any season with less than 9 wins, we'd never have a season with fewer than 9 wins again!

I guess it depends upon what you mean by a "slight" favorite. Iowa is 9-1 against us over the last 10 games. They are ranked #23 against our #57 by Sagarin, #22 against our #52 by Team Rankings, #32 to our #56 by Massey, and #32 to our #63 by College Football at Sports Reference. I suppose if...

For this team, that would fantastic. We're not talking about the 2021 team that had to lose to Bowling Green and 5-7 Illinois (both at home!) in order to finish 8-4.

I don't think so. Everybody (well, almost everybody) loves an upset story.

Even our home-town writers don't believe we can win this one. Minnesota’s lack of balance — especially rushing inconsistency — puts a lot of pressure on Lindsey to trade possessions with a faster, more explosive opponent. I wouldn't say the rushing has been "inconsistent." I'd say it's been...

I suppose that it can. I also have been thinking about the 2018 team that struggled through most of the season, particularly on defense (they surrendered 40+ points four times and gave up 50+ points twice), but they dominated three of their last four opponents. They made two major changes...

To state the obvious, the Gophers will have to be better than they were in their two conference victories to beat Nebraska. I think they might be but I still can't get over the hump to pick a Gopher win. I think it will be close. Nebraska 31, Minnesota 27

I don't think that's the main difference. The main difference between those two teams is that Iowa was able to score 37 points against Wisconsin on 319 yards from scrimmage and hold Wisconsin to zero points. Purdue didn't beat us with 456 yards from scrimmage and allowed 27 points by Minnesota...

Yeah, the problem with bitching about the refs constantly is that it tends to be very one sided (in addition to being annoying). Fans are very sensitive about calls against them and calls they don't get but are indifferent to the quality of calls against the other team or non-calls against...

I don't think that's a difficult question. The team clearly isn't as good as "we" thought they could be. Fans overwhelmingly are optimistic before the season starts and this board is no exception. What's helping us so far is that there are more than a few conference teams who also aren't as...

Agreed. Wisconsin looks to be in worse shape than us but I'm not sure who the other team will be. Maybe Michigan State.

Purdue receivers with the dropsies now

Whew! A lot of bend but not brake from the defense tonight.

Mostly he's handled himself well tonight

All right.

Kerry Brown got one of the interceptions.

3: one by Perich, one by Nestor, and one by Brown

That's three interceptions against Browne tonight.

Wow! Koi saved his best for late!