I picked this as the most important game of the season months ago! With our bright and shiny 18-0 record in the past 18 non-conference games we have consistently laid an egg in the B1G. To turn a corner you have to do what you haven't done in the past. For the Gophers that would be post a winning record in the B1G! That starts with Purdue.
Purdue is one of our winnable road games and with home game against Nebraska, Maryland, Penn State and Wisconsin we need to win our "winnable" road games. Plus the Boilers are one of the "hot" teams in the West on the way up and we need to beat them!
8-4 is a 5-4 record in the B1G we have Rutgers and Illinois kind of considered wins. So that leaves a 3-4 record the rest of the way. I'm not going to be happy with that and consider 9-3 the bottom of a successful season!
Go Gophers!
And I could care less if they win all 12 games by less than a touchdown coming from behind in the final minute of the fourth quarter.