Fleck's Frauds Flounder

Can't say this was surprising. Last week a Gophers club that had been godawful for all of Big Ten play suddenly became a totally different team and destroyed Purdue. So with a good, ranked Northwestern team in next they at least renewed some interest, and hope of being a bowl team.

Nnnnnnope

As usual, when faced with a big game(relatively speaking), a Gopher football team peed down their collective legs and gagged in their last home game of the year.

The defensive turnaround from last week sort of carried over. They at least did their best to keep the team in the game. They are not why they lost. That blame lands squarely on the offense, which had by far its worst performance of the year. They were in great starting field position basically the entire day. And they made virtually nothing of it. One touchdown until they got a 2nd against a prevent defense late.

Northwestern tried over and over to let the Gophers win and they just refused.

So only a win at Wisconsin gets them into a bowl now and salvages what is sure looking like a failure of a season.  And the Gophers haven't beaten the Badgers since Dubya's 1st term. So yeah.

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  1. MichelleNovember 17, 2018 at 8:29 PM

    Gotta confess the name “Fleck’s Frauds” always makes me laugh.
    I can’t see a way that they beat Wisconsin. They find ways to lose to them. And I just heard on the news that the Gophers haven’t won at Camp Randall since 1994. None of the players on the team were even born then. I’m so old.

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