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Illinois receivers are way too good to give Altmeyer so much time to throw. Might as well bring pressure; we can’t cover their receivers.

On the fake punt, if 25 would have looked back, he could have made a block on the Illinois pursuit guy. Play would have worked.

PJ is strangling the clock today.

Altmeyer was already almost to the ground. No reason to stick a mitt in there. Wasn’t thinking ..,

No penalties on Illinois yet; Gophs have 3.

We’re ahead at halftime on the road against a ranked team … I like where we sit. We’ll see how it goes.

Lately, the Gophers have made good half-time adjustments. I hope that continues today. We get the ball first.

Bielema vs PJ in the 2:00 minute drill is no contest.

Football is hard …

PJ playing for a FG in last 2:00 minutes …

Guess so ..

A little early in a close, back-and-forth game for “the sky is falling” posts ..,

Only defensive issue so far is that we’re getting outnumbered on the edge on bubble screens. Defense against run looks much improved.

Too slow developing, too.

Beyond strange. Oregon will destroy Michigan. Gophers’ move still looks big, but not as unusual as I thought, when you put it in context of other games this week. Thanks for the global view.

3:45 pm on Friday. Betting line has held firm at Gophers by 3 points. Why are the Gophs favored (by bettors) over a ranked opponent? My guess: Illinois WR Pat Bryant remains in the concussion protocol and won’t see action tomorrow. Whatever the reason is—Go Gophers!

Start fast; take sellout crowd out of the equation. Play a complete game: make good half-time adjustments; don’t purposely go turtle in the 4th Q. And, most important, win the turn over battle decisively. Tall order. But the way both our offense and defense have come together recently, it isn’t...

The more dependable targets, with leaping ability and hood hands, the better. Brosmer will find them.

To recap: betting opened, logically, with Illinois favored to win by 2.5 (3.0 on some sites). Within 48 hours, line shifted to Minnesota being favored by 3.0. This is a huge shift. Also a counter-intuitive shift: Unranked (not close to being ranked) Minnesota is now favored by bettors to beat...

In his press conference, Bielema sounded as though he hoped most of those guys (not Feagin) should be ready for the Gopher game. The WR with a concussion” (Pat Bryant) is Illinois’ top offensive threat, a Daniel Jackson type WR, only 3 inches taller. Bielema says Bryant is going to practice...