BleedGopher
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per Hill:
The Minnesota Gophers went into the Horseshoe and lost, but no one in Dinkytown should feel bad about what happened.
Looking at the box score of Saturday’s showdown at the Horseshoe between Ohio State and Minnesota makes it seem like it was a one-sided contest. Dwayne Haskins had bloated numbers that will ensure he remains in the Heisman conversation and the final margin of victory was more than two scores, but that wasn’t the whole story.
The Gophers are not a championship team. They will not be competing for a conference title this year and might very well go back-to-back years without a trip to a bowl game. But Ohio State is a title contender and could end up winning the National Championship, and the Gophers had them on the ropes for a good portion of Saturday’s game.
As a title contender should, the Buckeyes pulled away late and scored a garbage time touchdown to make the victory look more significant than it was. Some will argue that Minnesota simply caught Ohio State on a bad day, but that’d be overlooking what P.J. Fleck has brewing with his program.
One could dub the start of the Fleck era in Dinkytown as underwhelming. He came to town with such high expectations that missing a bowl game for the first time in five years seemed like starting on the wrong foot. But the Gophers shouldn’t be interested in limping into default bowl games, the Big Ten title is the goal. No college program, especially a Power 5 school, should be alright with settling for less and dashing its own national championship dreams.
Fleck has his work cut out, but the foundation is being laid for Minnesota to put to rest the mediocrity its become comfortable with and break into something better.
https://fansided.com/2018/10/13/minnesota-gophers-pj-fleck-future-bright/
Go Gophers!!
The Minnesota Gophers went into the Horseshoe and lost, but no one in Dinkytown should feel bad about what happened.
Looking at the box score of Saturday’s showdown at the Horseshoe between Ohio State and Minnesota makes it seem like it was a one-sided contest. Dwayne Haskins had bloated numbers that will ensure he remains in the Heisman conversation and the final margin of victory was more than two scores, but that wasn’t the whole story.
The Gophers are not a championship team. They will not be competing for a conference title this year and might very well go back-to-back years without a trip to a bowl game. But Ohio State is a title contender and could end up winning the National Championship, and the Gophers had them on the ropes for a good portion of Saturday’s game.
As a title contender should, the Buckeyes pulled away late and scored a garbage time touchdown to make the victory look more significant than it was. Some will argue that Minnesota simply caught Ohio State on a bad day, but that’d be overlooking what P.J. Fleck has brewing with his program.
One could dub the start of the Fleck era in Dinkytown as underwhelming. He came to town with such high expectations that missing a bowl game for the first time in five years seemed like starting on the wrong foot. But the Gophers shouldn’t be interested in limping into default bowl games, the Big Ten title is the goal. No college program, especially a Power 5 school, should be alright with settling for less and dashing its own national championship dreams.
Fleck has his work cut out, but the foundation is being laid for Minnesota to put to rest the mediocrity its become comfortable with and break into something better.
https://fansided.com/2018/10/13/minnesota-gophers-pj-fleck-future-bright/
Go Gophers!!