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I'm not so angry about the touchdown. They got the ball in good field position to start. I'm angry about the Gophers' first offensive series. Guys need to wake up.

Yes, but there's no use in continuing to return to it. Plus, we've had worse recently (losing to Northwestern last year after having a three-touchdown lead with one quarter remaining and, of course, the infamous Bowling Green loss). Update: UNC has closed the lead to 3 points.

At least there is a silver lining among those two. Athan is showing us the wisdom of moving on to Max. Athan is now at 7 of 22 for 69 yards (3.1 per attempt average) with an interception.

Pretty tough to beat Tanner's 10.2 yards per attempt in 2019. That was 4th in the nation behind Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, and Tyler Huntley. Those three all made it to the NFL. He also had 30 TD passes compared to 7 interceptions that season. Tanner himself would never come close to those...

You said "passing defense" and I gave you their correct ranking for that measure in terms of yards per play. I have them at 94th in scoring defense. You should check your numbers. However, we can cut them some slack because, according to Sagarin, they've played the toughest schedule in the...

Well, I don't know what constitutes "horrible" but they are ranked currently at #88 in yards per pass allowed at 7.57 per attempt (We are #3 nationally at 4.56 per attempt). That's not good but there are worse teams - like Purdue for example at 8.74 yards per attempt. The worst team in the...

That's partially true but USC passed the ball 38 times. UNC, Michigan, and Iowa didn't pass that much. However, currently we are #3 in the nation in yards per pass allowed (4.56 yards per attempt) behind only Washington and Texas.

No, but he probably didn't think that UCLA would start the season at 1-4 despite the tough schedule. I really doubt he thought that UCLA would lose to Indiana by 29 points. I suspect he would be less bullish in predicting games now. I'm just saying. All these other predictions were made very...

Posting that one isn't quite fair. That was made by a fan blogger well before the season started.

Not only is he a fine QB and apparently a very good teammate; he's also quotes the classics, like Thin Lizzy!

Not this old fart

#1 against the pass is a bit misleading (although we're close) because I don't think using average yards passing per game tells the whole story. Of the four power conference teams we faced, three didn't pass that much. North Carolina passed 23 times (most of them were by the starter who was...

Hopefully, he goes with the path of least resistance. It shouldn't take a lot of scoring to beat UCLA since they haven't reached 20 points so far in the season. Speaking of Maryland, they are also the worst in the Big Ten in being penalized. That seems to be a perennial problem with them...

The pass defense did look very good against USC and I was glad that USC went to the pass as much as they did because they were shredding us on the ground.

Yes, Omar Shariff's character makes a great entrance by shooting Lawrence's Arab guide. O'Toole: "Why did you shoot that man?" Shariff: "He knew that he is not allowed to drink from this well." O'Toole: "Why didn't you shoot me?" Shariff: "You are welcome." I think my favorite scene has to...

I watched the replay. I have to say it was much easier watching USC gashing us on their running plays knowing already that we had won the game. Thankfully we have a fine passing defense which came through again at the end.

The defense has a definite dichotomy between the run and the pass. The pass defense probably is the best I've seen in my time as a Gopher fan. The rushing defense is another matter. Iowa's running game in the second half killed us and USC mauled us pretty badly with their run game. I was...

We're 1-9 against Iowa in the last 10 years. If you like playing them so much then maybe you're the weird one.

Well, we just don't agree and this isn't a religion that I'm bound to obey.

We do play Oregon and Ohio State next season though and we still have Iowa. I get sick of playing Iowa and Wisconsin every year. I don't know why "rivalries" mean much in an 18 team league stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I'd rather rotate among all the teams in the league.