Pat Forde: Gophers go from Flavor of Month to Bust of Month

[BleedGopher]

And the Gophers? They plummeted from Flavor of the Month in October to Bust of the Month in November, losing their last four games. The final defeat, a 55-0 humiliation in the Floyd Bowl against Iowa, should have been enough to remove Tim Brewster's name from the Hot Coach list. In retrospect, Minnesota's 7-5 record is a house of cards. Best victory: over Illinois, No. 57 in the Sagarin Ratings.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&page=dash0813&sportCat=ncf

Go Gophers!!

[HopHead]

As much as the Gopher fan in me wants to call him a bunch of names and say that he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about, the cold hard truth is it's really tough to really argue with what he wrote. At least we get a bowl game as an opportunity to wash that 55-0 taste out of our mouth. It would be a really long time until spring practice if the team was already packing up equipment and heading home for the holidays.

[bigtenchamps1899]

but in the preseason we were ranked in the "Bottom Ten" at espn--so i could care less what they think.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/preview08/news/story?page=bottom1008preseason

number eight actually, so i'd say we've come a long way.

[Jike Spingleton]

He's right. And yet, we still surpassed expectations.

The last time we did this, in 2002, we were coming off a 4-7 (2-6) season. Started off 7-1 and got bulldozed in our last four games. Went into the bowl game a big underdog to a ranked Arkansas team, and manhandled them. Set us up for a big run in 2003. I can inly hope we do the same thing six years later, starting with the bowl game next month.