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With today’s win, the Gophers haven’t lost this year to any team under .500. Their 3 losses come to teams with a combined 18-5 record. While that NW loss was still an awful choke job, the fact that we lost isn’t as damning now as we thought then.

College football fandom is way different than pro leagues. I’ll watch Ohio State now because they’re in the same tier and conference that we are. If we move down, why would I care about Ohio State vs. Tennessee? I have no connection to those schools. Now multiply that by a ton of other...

Don’t kink shame, guys.

I only ask the football gods two things if we make a bowl game: (1) someplace south of the mason dixon and (2) not in a baseball stadium.

If we make any bowl game: ok season If we make a bowl game and beat Wisconsin: definite success

Love it. You can tell he wanted this as bad as the fans. He’s a weird cookie, but he’s our weird cookie.

Iowa made a deal with the devil. No other explanation.

I’d love to know what kind of deal Iowa made with the devil because they probably will finish 11-1 or 10-2 with a truly godawful offense. It’s horrifying and fascinating, and a real indictment on the B1G West. But yeah, they aren’t making the playoffs. Michigan/Ohio State/Penn State will make...

Hawkeyes Edge Gophers in Punt-Fest (I expect this to be a repeat of the Nebraska game, but with us losing this time because Iowa is our new curse)

It’s a sad state of affairs that I’d be thrilled with this result.

I wouldn’t hate it if Michigan wins it all. But really, I’ll cheer for any team in the playoffs outside the SEC not named Wisconsin or Iowa.

Can we just fast forward to the super conference of the elite and be done with it? Programs like Minnesota, Mizzou, Arizona, West Virgina, Purdue, etc., are just never going to field a competitive team the way the game is heading. I didn’t tune in tonight not because I was afraid of losing...

Losses to Michigan and THE Ohio State are expected. There are a few bad losses in here (Bowling Green, New Mexico State), and some good ones (Auburn, 2-2 with Penn State). It looks pretty good generally. The only real black mark is 5-19 against Iowa and Wisconsin. That’s pretty...

Michigan cruises to 31-3 lead by 3rd quarter and tacks on another TD to get to 38 in the 4th, but the Gophers manage in garbage time what no other team has so far: score more than 7 against Michigan. Michigan 38 Gophers 10.

Good to see the celebration. We can be grumpy fans all we want, still lingering on Northwestern. But it’s great that the team isn’t!

Every B1G west game plus MSU (the 5 non-Michigan/OSU games) is about a coin flip. None of these teams is very good. I think we win at least 2. If we can win 3 of 5, we’ll be going bowling at 6-6. If we get a bowl game—any bowl game—and beat just one of Iowa or Wisconsin, that’s a passing C- on...

Any team in the B1G west can realistically beat any other team in the B1G west. Am I confident we beat Iowa this year? No. But wouldn’t shock me either. Iowa is not very good.

Do they not provide t-shirts? I didn’t think “[color] outs” worked all that well otherwise. I don’t think it’s going to look so great against a less interesting (not to say bad!) team after arguably the worst Gopher loss in a decade or more.

PJ was one of the hottest candidates when we hired him. We hired Tubby Smith. Those are both hires in my relatively short time as a Gopher fan. The notion that Minnesota can’t hire desirable coaches is just wrong. That said, I wouldn’t fire PJ at this point. He took over, improved the team in...

Be positive. There’s almost no way this can be worse than a 21-point fourth quarter meltdown against Northwestern.