SI: Top Sleepers in College Football's Most Wide-Open Divisions (BT West: Minnesota)

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Big Ten: West Division
Minnesota Golden Gophers (last season: 7–6, beat Georgia Tech in Quick Lane Bowl)

This race always manages to be wide open, and 2019 shouldn’t be an exception. Nebraska or Iowa feels like the favorite here—and that’s what voters thought in the unofficial Cleveland.com media poll (the Big Ten doesn’t do preseason voting). P.J. Fleck is now in his third season, meaning the bar should be a bit higher this year as the Gophers look to build on three wins in their last four games of 2018.

The quarterback play is a question mark after neither Zack Annexstad nor Tanner Morgan was truly able to seize the starting job last season, and things were complicated when Annexstad sustained a recent foot injury that will have him out indefinitely. But Minnesota’s leading receiver, Tyler Johnson, and rusher, Mo Ibrahim, are both back, and a light start to the year should build toward a critical home game against Nebraska on Oct. 12.

https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/08/05/sleeper-picks-divisions-virginia-minnesota-usc

Go Gophers!!
 

per SI:

Big Ten: West Division
Minnesota Golden Gophers (last season: 7–6, beat Georgia Tech in Quick Lane Bowl)

This race always manages to be wide open, and 2019 shouldn’t be an exception. Nebraska or Iowa feels like the favorite here—and that’s what voters thought in the unofficial Cleveland.com media poll (the Big Ten doesn’t do preseason voting). P.J. Fleck is now in his third season, meaning the bar should be a bit higher this year as the Gophers look to build on three wins in their last four games of 2018.

The quarterback play is a question mark after neither Zack Annexstad nor Tanner Morgan was truly able to seize the starting job last season, and things were complicated when Annexstad sustained a recent foot injury that will have him out indefinitely. But Minnesota’s leading receiver, Tyler Johnson, and rusher, Mo Ibrahim, are both back, and a light start to the year should build toward a critical home game against Nebraska on Oct. 12.

https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/08/05/sleeper-picks-divisions-virginia-minnesota-usc

Go Gophers!!
I don’t things were complicated by injury. More like they were simplified.
 

I don’t things were complicated by injury. More like they were simplified.

Would agree, obviously sucks to lose the luxury of having two solid guys with experience but now the job is Morgan's and he can get the majority of the first team reps and really take hold of things.
 

I don’t things were complicated by injury. More like they were simplified.
They only get more complicated if Morgan gets injured.

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The quarterback play is a question mark after neither Zack Annexstad nor Tanner Morgan was truly able to seize the starting job last season

Let's say that they played football year-round. That the season had no end, with an 8 month gap. Does anyone think Zack Annexstad was going to suddenly seize the job from Morgan? Tanner Morgan was one of the best rated passers in all of college football and ZA was holding a play card over his head but the season ran out of games.
 




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