NCAA 13 Week 4

[upnorthkid]

The Gophers enter this one at 3-0 in both simulation and real life and the scores have actually been fairly close for the most part with the predictions being 32-13, 39-9, and 25-24.

Here's how the teams stack up this week

Minn

Overall C+
Offense C
Defense C+

Syracuse

Overall C+
Offense B-
Defense C

Again very evenly matched teams.

Here's how it played out.

SU @ MN
13-24- The Gophers ground game wore down Cuse as they rushed for 209 yards behind 126 from Gillum with 2 Rush TD's. The Cuse offense stalled as Nassib went down (after starting 6-15) and the offense never got going.
14-24 Cuse led 14-0 at half but the Gophers stormed back due to 4 interceptions and 2 fumble recoveries. Offense looked poor but capitalized on TO's.
23-27 The Gophs pounded the rock all game and hung on to win at the end as 2 early 4th Q FGs by Wettstein proved to be the difference. The D again was stout tallying 2 Ints.
24-31 The Gophers did it all on the ground as they rushed for 209 yards and 3 scores from Kirkwood. The Gophs had to hang on however, as Cuse missed 2 FGs inside the redzone and were stopped on downs as time ran out.
21-0 Gophers looked stagnant as 3 TOs doomed them as the defense was given short fields. Looked really bad overall.

Results:

The Gophers took 4/5 hard fought contests to win and move on to 4-0 by a score of 21.2-19.

Let's go Gophers!!

 

[Schnauzer]

Nice!! As has been the case each of the first three weeks, I bet one of these turns out to be pretty close to reality. Let's just hope it is one of the first four.

 

[Gopher07]

Did you sim sans Gray, or did you leave him in?

 

[upnorthkid]

Did you sim sans Gray, or did you leave him in?

sans. Seems that for some reason the sim engine enjoys running heavily with shortell as well

 

[Monty519]

That last one would be brutal. But 4/5 ain't bad lol

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Think they'll accept a best of 5 series to be played through the night into Sunday evening?