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It's wild to me that people think USC is a pick 'em game when they are the #11 ranked team in the nation with a history of strong performance while we are like 6-40 against ranked teams in the last few decades with a history of losing even winnable games, including losing to a bad UNC game this...

Those four pick them games may fit the category for us, but I would be surprised if we are favored in any. Maybe Maryland at home following a bye. At Rutgers, at Illinois, at WI - those will all have the home team favored (Illinois likely heavily favored). The UCLA game is a must win game for...

We've played UNC, Iowa, and MI - all of which are incompetent offenses. We found a way to lose all three (finding ways to lose being the core of our identity). We've lost 7 or 8 straight against P4 opponents. We're too weak and slow to focus on the run, so the passing schema better get a whole...

USC 36 MN 13

All of this was transparently predictable. CFB is less cool than it used to be - just straight up. Players are also less cool I think just due to their need to maximize money during age 18-22. What a nightmare. These cats are already glamorized on campus and now doing so with hundreds of...

I think this season is especially damning in our program direction. We are upper-classman heavy with a lot of positions this group recruited. DL, LB, WR, and OL are all underwhelming. And I’m not convinced it’s due to talent. The game management and adjustments seem to be a net negative. Special...

So it is bad - 1 win every 2-3 years. I was making a little brother analogy not a claim on records. This includes 0-14 stretches against WI and 1-8 against IA. These have also been pretty mediocre to poor teams which are propped up record and defensive numbers-wise by playing in the insanely...

Because that depends on the length of time we are choosing but if we did everything 2000 and after, yeah 1/10 sounds about right when thinking a combined record against IA and WI. I don't know maybe it's more like 1/8 or such but it isn't good. And we celebrate 3 of 6, absolute parity, against...

This futility against P4/P5 opponents is the most directional and damning information we have about the strength of the program. UNC is a bad program and probably (we hoped) about on par with us. It’s really embarrassing, disheartening, and sad that, on top of consistently playing boring...

Lol oh man CBJ catching it even in the offseason and on the football thread. He deserves it but egad Gopher brothers will the buffoonery of our FB and BB programs ever end?

The program is not chaotic - it is consistent. Consistent in its losing. Consistent in its boring and predictable style of play. Consistent in being completely incapable of overcoming any deficit of 7+ points. Consistent in getting absolutely drilled by our main "rivals" (who I can't imagine...

MI - 45 MN - 13

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Those are good standalone records but the B1G West has been so abysmal for so long that those records were inflated. Like winning the AL Central most years. We saw that come to fruition when they got smashed every year in the B1G title game. Fleck's WI record is better but I guess I am still...

I get it and want to agree but to me this just emphasizes what has been the core personality of the program for a long time in rivalry games - find a way to lose no matter what. Given how bad Iowa and WI have been, it bends all probability that we’ve been so futile against them. But we have -...

Can we really say this? After getting absolutely manhandled and finding every way to make fools of ourselves for 15 years prior to some more recent parity? Every year they look bad we find ways to look equally bad or worse. Maybe we will get some clarity on us being good or them being bad with...

MN - 26 NEV - 19

I like to think like that too but both teams have pretty routinely kicked our ass for the last few decades.

lol man just more classic Gopher football. Seemingly outplayed by a lower-level opponent. Nothing intimidating or well done by the Offense, Defense, or Special Teams. Consistent experience ms like this is why we have an apathetic fan base.

One good throw to Driver, one terrible swing pass that got Major popped. Gifted a face mask penalty. Mistake by their QB to not tuck and run for easy first. Redding catches a punt and slowly runs around losing a yard. Uninspiring start.