Statistical darlings. Top 25 teams, generally, but not always, beat someone with a winning record.
Our NC schedule put together a monster 7-28 record. Our stats from those three games make this team look a lot better than it really was.
We backed that up with 5 wins against teams with a record of 20-40 in Big Ten play.
A combined total of 27 - 68 for the teams we beat.
The only team we lost to that was a impressive team was Penn State (unless they played tOSU or Michigan). The other losses were to pedestrian Purdue and Iowa teams, and an Illinois team that was very good on Defense, but lost to Indiana, Purdue, Michigan State - ??? - and Michigan, their only "quality" loss.
This was a Gopher team that should have been better, but was also pedestrian at best. We'll see where we are in year seven of the PJ Fleck experience, but this team was not an upgrade from the Mason or Kill/Claeys years in terms of results - it's the same product with fancier packaging and a weak schedule. (rank of 67 in the FBS, 19 places weaker than 2021. the weakest schedule in the past 10 years)
We did, however, still beat Wisconsin, so that's in the plus column.
