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I brought this up at the start of the season and I will do the same at its conclusion. I have seen a marked improvement in the student section in recent years in terms of size and participation. I was getting worried in the Coach Kill years as the Brewster regime and/or the move to campus...

It looks like yet another great home game weather day headed our way this week. The long range forecasts are usually all over the board but once you get to midweek it feels like you can lock it in a bit. So, if all goes according to the current forecast, we should see... cloudy - making the...

I figured Fitz would always be a concern so I was pretty relieved when he... well... when he was relieved. But somehow Northwestern keeps lurking around. I thought they were dead, only to watch them do the big comeback and provide PJ with arguably his worst B1G loss. Northwestern promptly fell...

Lots of excitement over the satisfying win over ranked Nebraska on Friday. But one milestone reached with that win that may have escaped many people: The win marked the win balance with Nebraska since the infamous 13-84 drubbing heard 'round the world in 1983. Counting that loss and Friday's...

It just felt different in the stadium Friday night. Nearly from the opening kickoff, you could just feel it. It now ranks among a handful of games where the atmosphere in the stadium reached a special level. That place gets electric and when it does, I wouldn't trade it for anywhere else...

Taylor playing?

I've rewatched the most recent game a couple times and it is no different in terms of how I often come away with different conclusions than I do being at the game in section 135 where every play on the west side of the field is a loooooong way from me. The thing that stood out to me most for...

Anyone going to this week's game? I have great memories from the one and only time I have watched the Gophers in Columbus. Soooooo many kind words from Buckeye fans and one dude in particular flagged me down in an elevator to talk about old Gopher Greats from eras-gone-by. Super nice people. If...

For a team at the Gopher's talent level, beating Ohio State is certainly unlikely, but not impossible. My anger level increases when coaches (or even fans) act like it is impossible. I realize that fans don't have a direct impact on the game but I have already seen one suggestion that the...

I don't see it happening, but I'm curious what others would predict in terms of Taylor playing this week. fourth choice SHOULD be 36%-50%. It won't let me fix it.

Teams and programs rise and fall all the time. Someone gets the right coach or AD and it becomes a moment in time where they have different fortunes before and after that event. NIL seems to have created a similar moment in time all over the country for basketball and football programs. It...

The backup QB goes 4/5 for 80 yards and a TD, building a QBR of 98.1, surpassing Drake Lindsey. Do we have a quarterback controversy?

2019 was a fun ride. But given all the early season drama, it very easily could have been a 7-5 or 8-4 type year. CrAB doesn't make that 4th down catch against Fresno State? Douglas doesn't show up HUGE deep in Gopher territory as the game clock was expiring against Southern Georgia? Even a...

The University of Minnesota marching band deserves better than the sunken, sound-challenged current band pit in Huntington Bank Stadium. I know on paper it seemed like a great idea. A dedicated spot for the band that created room for fans seated behind the band to still easily see the field...

The context of "bad losses" here is not games where the Gophers played a tough opponent and got blown out when playing poorly on top of being an underdog. I'm simply referring to games against bad opponents that the Gophers had no business losing, but did. So, games like the 2019 matchup with...

I spend my share of time on Threads, Twitter, Tik Tok etc. etc. and of course any 13 year old can publish a flashy "Ranking the B1G helmets" post, or rank the teams for the upcoming season. I am annually amazed at how it is rinse, repeat with putting the Gophers somewhere beyond the #10...

I wasn’t sure where to post this as it isn’t specific to football but it does include football. When St. Thomas went to D1, I wondered if someone would fill the void in the MIAC. St. John’s, Bethel, and Gustavus seemed the most likely. St. John’s had the stellar football heritage and decent...

It's the offseason now and time for some hard hitting topics fit for this time of year. What was your favorite Gopher football loss in the current stadium? Losses all suck, but some suck less than others and after some, it doesn't feel like a sad refugee march to the parking lot. For me...

I’ve long witnessed how the preseason rankings are so heavy in SEC teams, that it becomes difficult for those teams to drop out of the rankings. Rank em high, let them blow through digestible non conference opponents, and then let them mostly maintain their rankings when they lose because any...

Why would you put FCS playoffs on network TV and bury D1 playoffs deep down the cable lineup on often-forgotten TNT? Is it because the FCS contract is older than the new big school playoff?