Why did the Gophers lose?
1- The Bowling Green Defensive Coaching Staff thoroughly out coached our offensive coaching staff. We had no clue where their stunts and blitzes were coming from.
2- Made absolutely NO SENSE for Fleck to go for it on 4th and 1 from our own 29 WHEN leading. Differentiated it from when he went for it against tOSU when we were in danger of being blown out early. If we punt at that point of this game, there is a chance this game would have ended 10-7 home team. I thought our defense was good, I think BG has a very nice short passing game.
3- Morgan was terrible, but a little bit in his defense, our receivers were not getting open, and when they did, they weren't always looking back for the ball so Morgan couldn't really throw it to them.
4- I don't think it was a bad or dumb play but just bad luck on the roughing the punter penalty.
5- Matt Naranjo's 77 punt totally flipped the field when the Gophers still had a 3-0 lead.
There's more reasons, but these stood out to me.