So where we all at 3 games in?

[50PoundHead]

Like last year, it will depend on how we do in the close games. We managed to win a lot of one-score games last year with clutch plays on both offense and defense. Hard to get a read right now.

 

[imthewalrus]

Hoping for 5 or 6 B1G wins, fun match-up in a bowl game with a happy ending. So that could be 7-8 wins with a chance to win a bowl game too.

Win at least one trophy game and I would call that a pretty nice season!

Beat that team from Jersey, Gopher!

 

[Some guy]

Like last year, it will depend on how we do in the close games. We managed to win a lot of one-score games last year with clutch plays on both offense and defense. Hard to get a read right now.

Yup.

Wins:
Buffalo - W
NW State - W
Purdue
Northwestern
Wisconsin



Losses:
Ohio state
Oregon

The story of the season:
Cal - L
Rutgers -
Nebraska -
Iowa -
Michigan State -

 

[Ski-U-Ham]

Hoping for 5 or 6 B1G wins, fun match-up in a bowl game with a happy ending. So that could be 7-8 wins with a chance to win a bowl game too.

Win at least one trophy game and I would call that a pretty nice season!

Beat that team from Jersey, Gopher!

That would make the season enjoyable for all of us

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

That would make the season enjoyable for all of us

No no PJ, I think you're a great coach and all ... I'm just not into that exactly ...

 

[FredCoxRocks]

My preseason prognostication was 8-4 but I was secretly hoping for a 2019 style season where things go right for a 9-10 win season.

All that assumed a relatively easy win at Cal. Now more of those 50/50 games or even 60/40 games look like losses to me.

You should never overreact to a single bad loss. But that is YOU. I am different, and special. This Cal loss has me reacting to lower my expectations from 8 wins to 6 - and another moral victory bowl in a place like Detroit, if the Gophers qualify for a bowl at all.

That, and aside from NW and Purdue, the other B1G teams we play have improved.
Edit: And Wisconsin...they suck balls.

 

[FanSinceTheFifties]

Before the season I expected 7-5. I still do.

 

[WorkingMyTailOff]

This is simply not accurate
The gophers played man to man off and on all night. They just didn’t play it very well.

I'm surprised by this because it looked like the secondary was spaced out and the Cal QB was throwing to receivers who often didn't have a Gopher dback within 5 feet. It was the worst pass defense I have seen in the Fleck and Kill era.