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    Illinois will wear these sweet throwback uniforms vs. Michigan Saturday. The 1920s-themed uniforms commemorates 100th anniversary of Red Grange’s 6-TD

    I love throwback jerseys. I'd be happy if we'd have a maroon jersey, a gold jersey, and then a throwback uniform for homecoming. Anything to keep the gray practice jerseys that they called "anthracite" from ever coming back.
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    POST GAME THREAD: GOPHERS COMPLETE HOLLYWOOD SWEEP!!

    But there's no way that one defender was going to get through!
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    POST GAME THREAD: GOPHERS COMPLETE HOLLYWOOD SWEEP!!

    I think you're right in incenting keeping the helmet secured properly. If it was just a game flow issue, they wouldn't need a rule, and could just say that the offense doesn't need to wait for a defensive player to put his helmet back on and the offense doesn't get any extra time other than the...
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    B1G/SEC talk scheduling agreement?

    I'd love this. If B1G and SEC are going to be the dominant conferences, there will likely be a lot of arguments about which conference was tougher when comparing similar records at playoff time. Giving the conferences a bunch of head to head matchups to compare them with would be great data...
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    Oregon 12 Players on the Field

    For defensive offside or 1 men on the field, since you can take the penalty without a loss of down, it feels like intent of the rule is that the offense gets to do the play over with the benefit of the 5 yard penalty. Allowing the offense to restore the clock to the start of they play seems like...
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    Oregon 12 Players on the Field

    One fix would be to expand and emphasize the unfair act rule. Empower officials to, in the event of an intentional foul to gain a tactical advantage, craft a remedy that they think is sufficient to undo the advantage gained. There is a rule that says if a player jumps off the bench to tackle a...
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    What grade would you give Gophers coaches in win over UCLA?

    Whatever decision the coach makes, he's trusting someone. He trusted the punt team to execute and the defense to get a quick stop. If he goes for it on fourth, he's trusting the offense to convert. His job is to evaluate the scenarios, and decide who he's going to trust and what hill he's...
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    Kicker

    That's why asking your golf partner "do you exhale at the top or bottom of your swing" is so effective!
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    Kicker

    Could just be the yips. I know it's absurd to compare D1 football to beer league softball, but one year I was on a team with no pitcher. We kept having different guys try, no one could hit the strike zone and we walked a lot of guys. One day I said "it's just lobbing a softball into a big...
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    Vannini: The gap between the best CFB teams and the middle-tier teams hasn't been this small in at least a decade and it makes every week a wild ride.

    Is there data or is this just a comment? It contradicts the prevailing narrative that the changes to the landscape are widening the gap between the top schools and the next tier. But I tend to think he's right.
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    Gophers Remaining schedule

    After what happened to FSU last year, I'm convinced we could get to 9-3 and they'd take a 6-6 SEC team over us.
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    The Gophers likely lose the USC and UCLA games without Koi Perich's big plays. They'd have a 2-5 record right now.

    That's the nature of close games. Didn't have a lot of margin for error in either USC or UCLA. So one blown or made play by lots of players could have been the difference. Conversely, North Carolina and Michiga. were close losses. Bet there are a lot of individual players where a few less...
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    POST GAME THREAD: GOPHERS COMPLETE HOLLYWOOD SWEEP!!

    What a difference two weeks makes. Before USC, every game on the schedule felt losable, except maybe UCLA (not saying i thought we'd lose all the them, just that there was no individual game i felt confident we'd win), and we were wondering where six would come from to get to a bowl. All of a...
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    2024-2025 Gopher Soccer

    Hopefully we beat PSU, but if told told me we'd come away with 1 win out of those two games before the OSU game, I'd have taken it. I don't care about almost lowing a lead any more than I care about almost winning. It's competitive sports, you either win or lose (or, in some sports, tie)...
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    Gophers Women's Hockey 2024-25 Season

    Hopefully we get five points when we get them at home to even up the head to head. We played a couple of solid games, but if we want to contend for a conference title, getting one out of six points is rough.
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    What grade would you give Gophers coaches in win over UCLA?

    Did not have the team ready to play in the first half, so no A from me this week. But, they adjusted well and won it in the second, so a solid B. Can't afford to only play one half against better teams, but was good enough against the opponent we had this week.
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    ***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA AT UCLA AT ROSE BOWL STADIUM IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    Same as not kicking on the goal line against USC, I disagreed with the coach at the time. But, it worked, so no complaint from me. He trusted his defense and they got him the ball back in good field position, and then the offense executed a good drive. Well-coached second half.
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    ***OFFICIAL MINNESOTA AT UCLA AT ROSE BOWL STADIUM IN-GAME THREAD!!!***

    Wonder what our play calling would have looked like if we got the ball at our own 37 with 46 seconds left in the half and one time out. UCLA was a bad pass from turning that situation into a TD.



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