Gophers Are Relevant! Huge Win!
Congrats on taking the Lions. May this be the game that sets the program up in perpetuity!
Ok College Football Selecrion Committee. Let me see what you think now. Minnesota is undefeated and just beat the Number 4 team. What does that mean???!
Go Gophers first one televised nationallly up here great win.
What a great game. Incredible plays on offense and defense.
Love seeing Antoine at the game, looked like a very proud papa! Awesome game by JR.
What a great win for the program, just amazing. It was awesome to witness and I'm not even a Gophers' fan.
Great game and huge win. Hope the Vikes can round out the weekend.
@"JR44" said: Love seeing Antoine at the game, looked like a very proud papa! Awesome game by JR.His kid is quite a player, and came up huge in that win. Looks like the acorn didn't fall far from the tree in the Winfield family.
@"BarrNone55" said: 9-0 for the first time since 1904. Rare air.Yep, and did you see their 1904 schedule? In their first game they beat Twin Cities Central High 107-0. LOL. A high school. Outscored their opponents 725 to 12.
Minnesota’s 1904 schedule: Gophers glad SOS wasn’t a thing back then.... Twin Cities CENTRAL HIGH? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fleck has put together a seriously legit team...in the trenches, skill positions. This was not a Penn St wins that game 9 out of 10 times situation.
Talent recruited had already gone-up a lot the last few years. That showed on the field. This season will immensely help that too.
Antoine Winfield Jr better become a Viking or I'll be pissed as hell.
Now I am going to put a pile of cash on Iowa this week, cause there is no way there won't be a hang-over after this one lol!
Badgers come up here to end the Big 10 regular season, should be a hell of a game.
I don't think the AP Top 25 is out yet, but if Georgia moves up to #4 with a loss to an unranked S. Carolina team ahead of Oregon and Minnesota it's time to throw away College Football Rankings as there's no end to the SEC favoritism.
Until they make it a 8-team race with 1 team from each of the Power 5 conferences and 3 others, it's a complete shitshow that enables two SEC teams to make it every year just by their over-inflated rankings.
As an Alumnus of Grinnell College, all I can say is "Go Pioneers!"
The Gophers are one of the top-10 teams in the nation for the first time in almost 60 years.
Coming off their historic 31-26 win against Penn State on Saturday, the Associated Press top-25 poll released Sunday ranked the Gophers No. 7, up several spots from No. 13 last week. It is the Gophers’ highest ranking since 1962, when they peaked at No. 5. That season was in the midst of the Gophers’ glory years under coach Murray Warmath, the era when the team won its most recent national championship and Big Ten conference titles.
Penn State dropped from No. 5 to No. 9.
In the USA Today coaches’ poll, the Gophers came in at No. 7. The Gophers are also likely to climb in the College Football Playoff rankings, released Tuesday. Currently at No. 17, the Gophers beat No. 4 Penn State, a team that was en route to a semifinal appearance.
In other news, Gophers sophomore safety Antoine Winfield Jr., earned the Walter Camp FBS National Defensive Player of the Week award also Sunday. Winfield tied for a game-high 11 tackles and also captured two interceptions, which led to 14 points and 33 return yards. His seven interceptions this season ties a school record from 1970 and ranks second in the FBS.
Just one other Gophers player, in 2009, has earned such an honor since 2004.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-considered-a-top-10-team-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-60-years/564725902/
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