Minny has a big, strong, experienced OL and I believe Ibrahim was one of the best if not the best RB in the nation. Like y'all said other can one big run the run defense was pretty satisfactory. The pass defense has scared me for years now.
Only time pass D (overall D) was solid or better was with Hafley.
No doubt. Really thought they could be an 9-10 win team. Maybe they still can as experienced elsewhere and were missing a stud WR.
Pretty sure they said he was their #1 WR (don't recall name).
I think that would have been Chris Autman-Bell was out for the game. He was like the #3 WR during the 2019 11-2 season? Not sure why he was out?
Thanks man. I didn't like it when a Mn fan tried claiming the Gophers would have won had Ibrahim not gone down. I don't agree with that. Even if you believed Ibrahim was the best back in the country, and he may have been right up to that point, I mean he was doing really well against a very big OSU defensive unit, but a RB can only do so much, and the Gophers got themselves into a hole by letting a very good OSU player beat them and get to our QB from the back side so he didn't see him coming, causing that fumble that really made the game a done deal. And I say that because Day's a good coach and OSU's a very good football team and a team would need more than one great RB to make up for a 14 pt deficit.
Yeah...tough break but better early than late.
Looking at the CBS preseason ranking, UMn was ranked like 44th or 54th? But what I noticed was like 90% of the teams ranked from 26-43(53) all won, and the 10% that didn't were ranked like 27th or 29th, and so it's understandable that poll voters are waiting to see how Minnesota plays in the next 1-3 weeks before deciding whether or not they are arguably one of the Top 25 teams or not.
It was NOT a BS roughing call. That is how they are calling that kind of stuff now. The Gophers got called for the same thing today.
