BleedGopher
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Go Gophers!!
- For the Gophers, their lack of identity showed up again even in a 27-20 Homecoming win over Purdue that helped them improve to 4-2. As Scoggins wrote, it was a game defined more by the Boilermakers’ shortcomings than anything else. On the podcast, he asserted that Minnesota would have lost to every Big Ten team except Purdue by playing the way it did Saturday. The Gophers couldn’t run the ball or stop the run. They completed fewer than 50% of their passes. If the hope at the start of the year was that the Gophers would be a team that dominated in the trenches on both sides of the ball as an identity, that has not materialized.

RandBall: The Vikings and Gophers lack identities. Here’s why that matters.
The Gophers won and the Vikings rested this weekend. Both teams have positive records, but both are still figuring out who they are, Michael Rand writes in today’s 10 things to know.
Go Gophers!!