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This game was not a disaster. Gophs made plenty of mistakes, and still hung in there with one of the top teams in the country. I'm not going to spend the next week complaining. If the Gophs come back and beat Neb, all the griping will be forgotten. Now, I have to bundle up and start shoveling - about 6" on the ground now in SW MN.
 


damnnnn. Announcer: "that was one of the worst onside kicks I've seen all year". Agreed.
 

Why do the announcers keep talking about OSU having to play early? How is that a disadvantage?
 



Good effort and nothing to be ashamed of. No serious injuries today unless I'm mistaking. Regroup and BRING IT the next two weeks and we'll get to play this team again.
 

Minnesota has nothing to be ashamed of. Excellent effort against a superior team. I feel really good going into the Nebraska and Wisconsin games. They give the same effort and they could get both. Just heard Griese say that he would not be surprised to see a rematch for the Big Ten Championship.
 

Very good effort. Can't really be that upset, but there were plenty of unlucky swings/executions that could have otherwise gave us the win.
 



OSU has 13 straight road victories. Gophers brought it to a respectable -7. I still think OSU is underrated.
 

Ok, not too mad about that game. What we can take away from this game is... we need a better QB.
 


Man that missed FG was huge now..GG Gophers. Didn't play great but came back and showed toughness. Excited/Nervous to see how next weekend vs UNL goes. No complaining here...
 



i think the reason they went for 3 is to have time left on the clock if they recover the on-side kick. Flip a coin, but you'd have to score the touchdown quickly to have enough time on the clock to do anything if you would recover the inside kick.

As for the onside kick itself, I agree with the announcers, but will channel Comic Book Guy to express my thoughts: "Worst . . . On-Side Kick . . . Ever."
 

on the sports forum I'm active on they gave us a LOT of respect today & said we're a QB away from being Michigan State of our Conference...
 


Nax91 said:
Very good effort. Can't really be that upset, but there were plenty of unlucky swings/executions that could have otherwise gave us the win.
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And some lucky ones too...don't forget, a long INT return set up the first TD, OSU fumbled going in for a score, fumbled a punt in their own red zone, and had an INT TD return called back by a penalty that usually only goes against teams like the Gophers, not $$$OSU$$$. The Gophers made their share of big mistakes as well; and the score was fairly representative of what it deserved to be. OSU was the better team today.
 

MN4LYFE said:
You can throw a hail mary from 50 out, you can't kick from the 50 yard line.
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So the gophers had a better chance of scoring a touchdown from their 45 yard line with 1:10 to go than to make it 25 yards with say 40 seconds to go? (None of this matters obviously, I'm just curious to hear people's thoughts).
 

IronRanger91 said:
Minnesota has nothing to be ashamed of. Excellent effort against a superior team. I feel really good going into the Nebraska and Wisconsin games. They give the same effort and they could get both. Just heard Griese say that he would not be surprised to see a rematch for the Big Ten Championship.
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+1
 

Just too many mistakes and missed opportunities at critical times. The penalties, the overthrow on the out and up by Maye, missed tackles, etc.

In most years, this would result in us losing by 30+. Proud of the guys for not quitting and continuing to fight. We continue to make progress as a program.
 

thailleagle said:
game could've been worse... game could've been won... lots of good to take away & a lot of bad to learn from...

on to nebraska...
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Agreed! Toughest competition we'll face the rest of the regular season.
 

Markous15 said:
So the gophers had a better chance of scoring a touchdown from their 45 yard line with 1:10 to go than to make it 25 yards with say 40 seconds to go, and then gaining another 30+ yards to get into FG range after getting the onside? (None of this matters obviously, I'm just curious to hear people's thoughts).
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You have to add the bolded part. If we recover the onside kick with, say 20 or 30 seconds left, we still have to get into FG range. If we get the onside with over a minute left, we have tons of time to get it into the end zone.
 

GophersInIowa said:
Just too many mistakes and missed opportunities at critical times. The penalties, the overthrow on the out and up by Maye, missed tackles, etc.

In most years, this would result in us losing by 30+. Proud of the guys for not quitting and continuing to fight. We continue to make progress as a program.
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What will stink is that, due to the tough end of schedule, the Gophers may play the next two games well, and still come up short. This would follow on the heels of a similar ending to last year. The key, to me, is the Gophers pulling a W in their bowl game. Given that, I'd be happy with the way the season turned out. One win in the next two weeks would be gravy.
 

Still some things Minnesota needs to work on. Play calling was bad, defense needs to finish tackles, and we are without a decent QB. But all things considered, this was a nice result and we certainly can go hard at Nebraska and Bucky.
 

GameDay said:
Still some things Minnesota needs to work on. Play calling was bad, defense needs to finish tackles, and we are without a decent QB. But all things considered, this was a nice result and we certainly can go hard at Nebraska and Bucky.
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Please explain.
 


Disappointed with the result but really liked the fight from the team today. The Gophers certainly had a good chance to pull off the upset today if not for some bad missed assignments by our defense, the long missed field goal off the upright, and Leidner and Maye just missing on a long TD. I thought in the 2nd half Limegrover got a little too pass happy at times and should have gave Cobb more carries especially early in the 2nd half. I know on a day like today the refs aren't gonna call as many penalties but I really thought Ohio State got away with some very obvious holding calls and that the pass interference call on Murray that lead to the field goal right before halftime was very weak as the OSU WR initiated the contact.
 

Markous15 said:
So the gophers had a better chance of scoring a touchdown from their 45 yard line with 1:10 to go than to make it 25 yards with say 40 seconds to go? (None of this matters obviously, I'm just curious to hear people's thoughts).
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I am very curious about this too. Does anyone have an explanation? No difference since we didn't get the kick but I was extremely confused...
 

CoMn said:
I am very curious about this too. Does anyone have an explanation? No difference since we didn't get the kick but I was extremely confused...
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At the point of when we kick the FG, you have two options:

1. Get the extra 17 yards for a TD, get the onside, and then try to go another 25 yards to get into FG range with potentially very little time left and no timeouts.
2. Kick it, get the onside and then try to go 50 yards for a TD with over a minute left.

If we don't kick it and score a TD on the next play, then it was a bad call. If we don't kick it and it takes six plays and 45 seconds to score a TD, then it was a good call.

I'd prefer to have to go 50 yards with over a minute to go than 25 yards with, say :25 left on the clock.
 

The five guys in the back field penalty may have killed their chances. It was a fun game and the best team won.
 

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