Honestly, better than the lower level big 10 teams? If you're following the FBS then you're not watching enough big 10 football apparently. The Gophers that came out to play NW, MSU, Cal (for 3 quarters), Purdue, and the 2nd half against IL would have absolutely throttled SDSU. Sadly, the team that showed up to the other 1/5 of those games came out and played an entire game against SDSU and this Minnet kid decides to disrespect a team that would otherwise give 2 turds about his State, Team, Teammates, and mascot. Honestly, if he knew how much money that contract to play in 2015 was worth he'd have been well advised to shut his trap. I'm pretty sure his coach laid into him after that one...biting the hand that feeds you isn't a good idea considering their teams count on the revenue they get from these big time appearances. I mean, lets be honest, 13,000 per game doesn't exactly pay the bills. I'm sure they made more money in traveling to TCF Bank than they did all season in Brookings. So yeah, talk about an ill-advised comment.
btw - I'm an SDSU alum...it kills me to hear this kid quoted like that. I'm a Gopher fan since birth practically...but I played ball out there so I have a bit of an affinity for my college roots. To me, it was obvious that the bigger / faster team came out and laid an egg. We (sdsu) were lucky to be in that game all things considered. And I'm not saying SDSU played all that well...they didn't - but I do realize that had the Gophs played relatively close to their A game on "O" they'd have been 1/2 way home to SD by halftime. That being said...name me 1 D-1AA team that held SDSU to under 250 yards of total offense this year...the Gopher D did play as good as they could have. So yeah, saying that the Gophers are no better than any team SDSU has played this year is a drastic overstatement by a frustrated player with absolutely no filter. He'll regret that down the road...but I'm sure his emotions were running high considering going in I'm sure he had hoped to light up the team that never even sent him a letter of interest during the recruiting process.
With that said...I sure as hell hope the Gophers don't lay an egg this week. I'm just hoping we score a few TD's and keep Iowa's offense in check. We, as team have regressed since day 1 2009 - it's time to put a complete football game together for once. All cylinders means offense clicks, defense clicks, the return game / coverage teams do their jobs, and we keep the laundry off the field for once!