Gopher schedule and opponent's opening week resu;ts

[Chris Monter]

August 29 UNLV Lost to Minnesota 51-23
September 7 at New Mexico State Lost to Texas 56-7
September 14 Western Illinois Beat Hampton 42-9
September 21 San Jose State Beat Sacramento State 24-0
September 28 Iowa Lost to Northern Illinois 30-27
October 5 at Michigan Beat Central Michigan 59-9
October 19 at Northwestern Beat California 44-30
October 26 Nebraska Beat Wyoming 37-34
November 2 at Indiana Beat Indiana State 73-35
November 9 Penn State Beat Syracuse 23-17
November 23 Wisconsin Beat Massachusetts 45-0
November 30 at Michigan State Beat Western Michigan 26-13

 

[Go Gophers Rah]

In my opinion, most of these games are hard to glean anything from. What does it mean the Wiscy beat UMass 45-0 or that the Hawkeyes narrowly lost to a team that went undefeated prior to the Orange Bowl last year? The only games here that I put much stock into are Texas' win over NMSU with 715 yards of total offense, NU going to the left coast and beating a major conference team and both PSU and UNL showing glimpses of beatability.

 

[GopherInPittsburgh]

Hampton turned it over 9 times against Western Illinois. How is that possible? Western Illinois also had 3 defensive TDs.

 

[tato2001]

The take-away is it's a tough Big Ten schedule. There are basically no games for the Gophers where I mentally say, "I think I can count on that as a win". Iowa, Indiana, PSU, I think we could be favored if we develop as hoped, but we certainly don't know enough know to say we are objectively better than any of them. If we win 3 Big Ten games, I'm satisfied. For now my upside is beat those three, upset Sconi, and its a great year.

 

[stocker08]

In my opinion, most of these games are hard to glean anything from. What does it mean the Wiscy beat UMass 45-0 or that the Hawkeyes narrowly lost to a team that went undefeated prior to the Orange Bowl last year? The only games here that I put much stock into are Texas' win over NMSU with 715 yards of total offense, NU going to the left coast and beating a major conference team and both PSU and UNL showing glimpses of beatability.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves on this one. NU scored two touchdowns on INT returns. We all know that that's simply a fluke.

 

[RodentRampage]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves on this one. NU scored two touchdowns on INT returns. We all know that that's simply a fluke.

Agreed, we know those don't fully count as 6 points. All you get is an asterisk.