Trojans Wire YouTube show previews USC football vs PJ Fleck and Minnesota (video)

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Per Tim:

On our USC show at The Voice of College Football, we offered a brief initial look at the Trojans’ 2024 matchup with the Minnesota Golden Gophers and head coach PJ Fleck. Minnesota and Fleck thrived for a few years at the beginning of Fleck’s tenure in the late 2010s, when he came over from Western Michigan. Minnesota came very close to making its first Rose Bowl since the early 1960s, the longest drought among any longstanding Big Ten school (in other words, schools other than Nebraska, Penn State, Maryland, and Rutgers, which have all joined the league in the past 35 years). However, the Golden Gophers fell short in 2019 and have not come closer since then.

Just how would USC and Minnesota match up on the gridiron when they play on Oct. 5 in Minneapolis? We looked at various factors attached to this game. One thing that should help USC is that Minnesota will be coming off a visit to Michigan when it plays the Trojans. Michigan will physically pound Minnesota (regardless of the outcome of the game). Minnesota will face a stiff physical challenge in playing Michigan and USC in back-to-back weeks.

Our conversation on the USC-Minnesota game and the status of the Minnesota college football program begins at 28:50 in the video below:



Go Gophers!!
 

And the Gophers will physically pound the Trojans, The former Pac 12 schools arent ready for the physicality of the Big 10.
 

And the Gophers will physically pound the Trojans, The former Pac 12 schools arent ready for the physicality of the Big 10.
I feel like if SC doesn't open up and gets a double digit lead early, the Gophers physicality can wear them down. They have the better athletes so the D needs to keep the big plays from happening. If it's close midway through the 4th, I like the chances for a W a lot.
 

Even the shittiest Gopher team of the millennium (2010 pre-Jeff Horton) kept it within 9 against USC. This was the week after the program's rock bottom moment of the same period (South Dakota)
 

I listened to four minutes of this guy telling me how bad our passing has been and how great our running has been.
Well, what IF Brosmer is our first passing QB since ? ? so, really our first passing QB ever. If that happens...dang we will be good. Hadn't really registered for me our passing has been below for ever...again...what if it is good?
 


I listened to four minutes of this guy telling me how bad our passing has been and how great our running has been.
Well, what IF Brosmer is our first passing QB since ? ? so, really our first passing QB ever. If that happens...dang we will be good. Hadn't really registered for me our passing has been below for ever...again...what if it is good?
You wouldn't consider TM a passing QB?
 


Tanner had one very nice season, you are correct. Chicken and the egg, maybe?
We also had two NFL wide receivers in 2019.
Tanner was a very accurate passer and definitely didn't do much damage running the ball. With what he had to work with post Bateman, he did about as well as you could expect. The injuries hurt his chances of making an NFL team IMO.
 




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