Pioneer Press: Gophers face tough road to bowl eligibility

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per Greder:

With a 3-2 start this season, the Gophers are the 54th-rated college football program in the nation, according to the Sagarin ratings. After three wins in nonconference play and two losses to start the Big Ten season, Minnesota’s schedule ranks as the 78th-hardest in the country.

Minnesota will need three more wins to become bowl eligible; otherwise they will stay home for the first time since 2011.

The current Sagarin ratings, posted at USA Today, provide some perspective on the Gophers’ season thus far and a glimpse at what lies ahead in the final seven conference games. The Gophers’ three wins are all against teams rated 102nd or lower, according to Sagarin. The next seven opponents have a combined record of 24-13, and Sagarin considers each foe having faced a tougher schedule than the U.

http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/09/gophers-face-tough-road-to-bowl-eligibility/

Go Gophers!!
 

per Greder:

With a 3-2 start this season, the Gophers are the 54th-rated college football program in the nation, according to the Sagarin ratings. After three wins in nonconference play and two losses to start the Big Ten season, Minnesota’s schedule ranks as the 78th-hardest in the country.

Minnesota will need three more wins to become bowl eligible; otherwise they will stay home for the first time since 2011.

The current Sagarin ratings, posted at USA Today, provide some perspective on the Gophers’ season thus far and a glimpse at what lies ahead in the final seven conference games. The Gophers’ three wins are all against teams rated 102nd or lower, according to Sagarin. The next seven opponents have a combined record of 24-13, and Sagarin considers each foe having faced a tougher schedule than the U.

http://www.twincities.com/2017/10/09/gophers-face-tough-road-to-bowl-eligibility/

Go Gophers!!

Two weeks from now we could be 5-2 and ranked #20 heading to Iowa 3 point favorites and win that too.
 

Michigan state is probably going to be a low scoring close game.
Illinois is a likely win I think.
@ Iowa and @Michigan are tall tasks.

I think the team will be 4-5 going into Nebraska. Beats Nebraska and northwestern who are both as bad as Purdue and we may be healthy by then.

The Wisconsin game will be for 7-5 or 6-6.
 


Nebraska, which has a lot of firepower, may do to the Gophers what they did two years ago in Minneapolis. Hard to see wins at Northwestern or Michigan or at home against Wisconsin. That leaves Illinois, which should be a win and MSU, which makes Saturday night pretty interesting. After a huge road game against Michigan, will MSU be flat? Will the Gopher coaches actually come up with an offense and will the team rally emotionally? One thing for sure: a big MSU win would be devastating.
 


Nebraska, which has a lot of firepower, may do to the Gophers what they did two years ago in Minneapolis. Hard to see wins at Northwestern or Michigan or at home against Wisconsin. That leaves Illinois, which should be a win and MSU, which makes Saturday night pretty interesting. After a huge road game against Michigan, will MSU be flat? Will the Gopher coaches actually come up with an offense and will the team rally emotionally? One thing for sure: a big MSU win would be devastating.

Nebraska has a lame duck coach, no defense, a turnover machine at qb, big injury and youth issues on the oline, banged up rbs, and an offense that is pass first; which should work well in mid-November in Mpls. They have already lost to a MAC team and barely beat Arky State. They have lost guys to academics, marijuana and other issues. Getting to play Rutgers and Illinois already is only thing keeping that sinking ship afloat. Nebraska has 16 freshmen in its depth chart. Four of them on oline. True frosh starting at rt.

Northwestern good back is banged up, oline is terrible, Thorson among most sacked qbs in the NCAA, not a single rcvr to fear one on one, secondary has big issues. Terrible losses to Duke, PSU, WI...barely got by Nevada.

Debacle and disaster are words being used a lot in Lincoln and Evanston this year.
 

Debacle and disaster are words being used a lot in Lincoln and Evanston this year.

So what will they be saying in Minneapolis when the Gophers lose to these teams?

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Illinois
Nebraska
Steal one from MSU/IA/NW
Odds for loss at MI pretty high...
Odds for loss vs. WI lower than MI, but still high...
 




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