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Iowa has a really good recruiting class with eight four-stars for 2026 and Kirk is coming back for another season. https://247sports.com/season/2026-football/compositeteamrankings/?Conference=Big%20Ten They will continue to be a very tough out. We are significantly less than 50-50 vs. them...

The best thing would be for the SEC to go 0-5 in the playoff. Everyone in the country wants this now except the southeast. It will get worse for them.

They say they are superior and then complain the B1G team they played was too tough for them. Priceless! The problem isn't that they scheduled a marque non-con match-up. The problem is they weren't good enough to win it!!! This is only the beginning of the end for the SEC. It will get worse...

It's more fun to pretend we kept them from making a bowl game. I'm going with that!

I disagree. GGG & Pair and a Spare podcasts talk all the time about how we're lower end of the B1G in revenue as do many other local and national resources. Even nationally, people talk about PJ doing more with less in Minnesota. Unfortunately, I have never seen any reliable data that we are...

We win at Northwestern with him and Devon Williams. Our young linebackers seemed to be out of position a lot! Of course, they had a lot of players out too. A couple good players being out makes a huge difference!

I think you're being a bit overly negative caliGopher, but you are correct that we had one of the worst secondaries in years and John Nestor came here because he would have been a backup at Iowa. I think he gets on the field there, but not as a starter. We tried to hide our corners against the...

All of you, awesome posts!

We live in a fishbowl like every other fanbase. We always inflate the importance of our guys on the national stage. It's just like the fears that Drake Lindsey will leave. He's not as big a deal as we think he is. Here is a top 50 quarterback list from CBS sports. Drake doesn't even make...

He hasn't shown out very well against better competition this year. It seems more and more likely that he comes back. That would be huge! We need to retain all the talent possible to have a better year next year.

They punted TWICE and had no offensive turnovers, yet both punts were at exactly the wrong time? Or is it just that any time they punt, it's easy to come up with a reason for it being the wrong time? They had a 15-point lead after their slow start. I think any of us will take a 15-point lead...

"Pretty good"? The offense after we went up 28-13 went missed 48-yard field goal, punt, touchdown, missed 40 yard field goal. So kicking sucked once again. That's special teams. The 40-yard field goal was mostly the result of us not having enough time at the end of the game because the...

Our recruiting has been better and I like that, but isn't that true for most of the B1G? Iowa has eight 4-stars in their 2026 class at the moment. I think, don't know, all the money the B1G has is raising all boats. It seems like the rest of the P4 has come down a little bit in comparison...

My recollection is they usually only have one or two. https://247sports.com/college/minnesota/season/2026-football/commits/?rankings=composite Aaden Aytch was an unknown that we got to early, but is getting a lot of attention now with a composite of 0.9228. Can we hang on to this guy from...

NIL priorities: 1) One starting cornerback: Our safeties will look a lot better with competent corner play & we get them both back next year. Go hard for one B1G caliber starting corner and everyone else can get knocked down a peg next year. We've had some bad injury luck at corner and were...

I agree. The easiest way for us to get better results is more money. Just about everything I've heard or read is we are near the bottom of the B1G in revenue. It's hard to expect upper tier results with lower tier money. I think PJ is doing pretty well getting us mid-tier results with low...

GopherGridiron podcast said much of the reason our safeties look worse is because our corners ARE much worse. We lost a corner that would be starting in the NFL right now if he wasn't injured, another very good, experienced corner, and a big, athletic nickelback that also made an NFL roster...

That's a very good point, but I think maybe exaggerated a bit. When you're bringing in portal guys, that would seem to reduce the number of 3*s you need to "settle for". Those guys go to lower programs and portal up if they prove they are worth it. I just don't think there are enough 4*s...

I agree. I'm really not much of a fan of the NFL. It's so clearly all about the money. The more college football becomes that way, the less interest I'll have.

I don't think the Blue Bloods would negotiate a giant TV deal because the networks are smart enough to realize they'll lose 70% of their viewership immediately by ditching the also-rans. And that 70% will just be the start because a lot of the bandwagon fans that just like to jump on to a...