SI: The Case for and Against College Football's 18 Remaining Undefeated Teams (MN)

[BleedGopher]

per SI:

Minnesota
Record: 4–0

Rank: NR

Best win: at Purdue 38–31, Game 4

How they’re undefeated: They are 4 for 4 in one-score games, winning in double overtime against Fresno State, escaping against Georgia Southern and South Dakota State before surviving a comeback attempt from the Boilermakers.

Toughest test left: at Iowa, Nov. 16

Ranked teams remaining: 3

A case for finishing undefeated: The Gophers avoid league foe Ohio State, and they’ve got one of the nation’s most productive passing offenses. QB Tanner Morgan ranks 25th nationally averaging 273 yards a game.

A case for not finishing undefeated: They’ve played some poor teams really, really close over the first month. That doesn’t bode well when the big dogs come barking (ie: Penn State, Iowa and Wisconsin).

https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/09/30/undefeated-teams-clemson-ohio-state-alabama

Go Gophers!!

 

[RememberMurray]

Maybe my memory is faulty, but it seemed to me that the national media outlets' paper-thin preseason analysis of the Gophers almost universally opined that the Gopher QB situation was at worst weak and at best a question mark. Did they even glance at Morgan's stats from last season? Did they bother to watch any 2018 video? I doubt it.


Now, of course, they make reference to "one of the nation’s most productive passing offenses."

No mea culpa expected, of course... but it's amusing.

 

[Schnauzer]

Exactly. At least Solid Verbal is sticking with their opinion that Morgan is nothing more than a "Try Hard" quarterback, and they are still not sold on him.

Another win or two and MN will creep into their "It's time to talk to your kids about _________" team for the year, which would be awesome.