CBS: Upset Alerts, Week 10: Can Gophers spring another one at Indiana?

[BleedGopher]

per CBS:

CHIP PATTERSON: Minnesota (+8) over Indiana : The Big Ten Legends Division has been so weird this year, I expect one of the three home favorites to lose on Saturday. I expect Michigan State to shut down Devin Gardner and Jeremy Gallon, so that leaves me with either Minnesota at Indiana or Northwestern at Nebraska. The Golden Gophers got an offensive boost from a healthy Phillip Nelson against Nebraska, but I think it will be the defense that gives them the advantage against the Hoosiers.

Minnesota leads the Big Ten with 52.0 tackles for loss, and as Tom pointed out on the Eye On College Football Podcast, 6-foot-6, 311-pound redshirt senior Ra'Shede Hageman has been a force to reckon with at the nose tackle position recently. When the Gophers got into the backfield, Nebraska's offense fell out of rhythm. Repeating that performance against Indiana's high-powered attack would beneficial, particularly considering the current state of the Hoosiers defense -- one that's giving up 6.43 yards per play against conference competition. This would be the Gophers' third straight upset after taking down Northwestern and Nebraska as double-digit underdogs.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...-10-can-gophers-spring-another-one-at-indiana

Go Gophers!!

 

[Fuzzy Rumpton]

Wow, did not know we lead the conference in TFL

 

[SelectionSunday]

Looking at these guys' track record of picking against the spread, I think I'd rather be the team they didn't pick to cover.

Someone needs to inform Jerry Palm that Devin Gardner isn't a senior. He has another year of eligibility @ Michigan.

 

[mnsports1]

Looking at these guys' track record of picking against the spread, I think I'd rather be the team they didn't pick to cover.

Someone needs to inform Jerry Palm that Devin Gardner isn't a senior. He has another year of eligibility @ Michigan.

He does? Guess I will have to google him...feels like he has been around awhile.
Edit: RS Junior

 

[Nate]

He does? Guess I will have to google him...feels like he has been around awhile.

Late last year he was granted a medical redshirt for an injury during his freshman year. There was a big stink about it.

 

[SelectionSunday]

He does? Guess I will have to google him...feels like he has been around awhile.

The NCAA granted him another year of eligibility prior to the season, I think. Michigan web site also indicates he's a Jr.

 

[e.bigelow]

Late last year he was granted a medical redshirt for an injury during his freshman year. There was a big stink about it.

Yep, he is in his second "Junior Year" as he was listed as a JR last year. Willing to bet that if he wouldn't have had the year he had last year, there would have been no request.

 

[Rodney's Open]

I don't think this game exactly warrants Upset Alert. Yes, it technically would be, but I just don't see it that way. I think the game is 50/50.

 

[Sparlimb]

I don't think this game exactly warrants Upset Alert. Yes, it technically would be, but I just don't see it that way. I think the game is 50/50.

If we win, it will be a 7-2 team that beat a 3-5 team. And no one will call that an upset...

Although if we lose, I'll be upset.

 

[MadtownGopher]

Wow, did not know we lead the conference in TFL

This shocked me as well.

 

[everybody knows my name]

Not an upset when the winning team comes in 6-2 and the other is 3-4, whatever Vegas says.

 

[Iceland12]

Not an upset when the winning team comes in 6-2 and the other is 3-4, whatever Vegas says.

That's an opinion. The other opinion is that with not only Vegas and the off-shore books predicting a victory but the vast majority of sports "experts" and websites predicting a Hoosier victory it will be considered an upset.

Your opinion certainly is valid and it does seem odd that such a strong majority of opinion makers are picking the team with the worse record to win, but it happens. Wonder if any present Gopher player or coach will come right out and say:

"We should be the favorites Saturday!"

Nah, me neither.

 

[bemidjigopher]

That's an opinion. The other opinion is that with not only Vegas and the off-shore books predicting a victory but the vast majority of sports "experts" and websites predicting a Hoosier victory it will be considered an upset.

Your opinion certainly is valid and it does seem odd that such a strong majority of opinion makers are picking the team with the worse record to win, but it happens. Wonder if any present Gopher player or coach will come right out and say:

"We should be the favorites Saturday!"

Nah, me neither.

I think our boys learned their lesson about posting bulletin board material after the scUM game

 

[Great Plains Gopher]

Anything could happen - that's the fun of college football. Indiana should be sky high at the beginning of the game, so Gophers may have to come from behind to pull it out. May be irrational, but I think Michigan will hang in there with MSU and may win a war that will leave both teams exhausted for the next game.