Reporter-Herald: Colorado State, Minnesota ready to go good on good

[BleedGopher]

per the Reporter-Herald:

The in-game battles can be as entertaining as the games themselves. Sometimes more so.

Colorado State takes big leap in competition this week with Minnesota coming to Hughes Stadium (1:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network), a Big 10 team coming off successive eight-win seasons with bowl-game appearances. It's a Gophers team where the strength lies on the defensive side of the ball (nine returning starters), and the most experience can be found in the back end with a secondary that has 147 games played combined.

The hosts have won 18 games the past two seasons, and the Rams have gone to two successive bowls on the strength of an explosive offense. It has been balanced, but last year the ledger leaned more toward the pass and an opening week 65-13 win over Savannah State suggested nothing different.

"It's another week and another challenge for us, another week to test how good we are," said Minnesota cornerback Briean Boddy-Calhoun. "Colorado State has a good receiving core, and we think we have a good secondary. There's no other way we would have it. We like to play good on good all the time.

"It's better than playing somebody that you obviously know you're better than. Coming in and playing a team where the receivers are good and we're a good secondary, it's going to be a fun matchup."

http://www.reporterherald.com/sports/csu/ci_28784669/colorado-state-minnesota-matchup-is-good-good

Go Gophers!!

 

[Dannyboy]

Who are they kidding. They don't have a chance!

 

[killme]

I did a double take on this: "They're better than some of the opponents we'll face, but you still have to prepare like you're playing the best every week," CSU senior Joe Hansley said.

I immediately wondered which of their opponents we're not "better than..."

 

[cjbfbp]

I did a double take on this: "They're better than some of the opponents we'll face, but you still have to prepare like you're playing the best every week," CSU senior Joe Hansley said.

I immediately wondered which of their opponents we're not "better than..."

Well, I can think of one that is higher regarded than the Gophers: Boise State. There are some other decent teams in their conference but they're probably below us.

 

[alchemy2u]

Funny, no talk about our offense. They are in for a big surprise when they will get punched in the face by an up tempo smash mouth football attack. At least in the old huddle system the defense could sub players that are getting pounded, now they just keep getting beat up.


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[gopherfield]

Funny, no talk about our offense. They are in for a big surprise when they will get punched in the face by an up tempo smash mouth football attack. At least in the old huddle system the defense could sub players that are getting pounded, now they just keep getting beat up.


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Yes, in the Mike Bobo presser he stated that regardless of what MN tries, at some point they are going to line-up man-to-man and make you have to stop them. He expects a power running game from MN, and he knows this will be the Rams' biggest challenge.