Minnesota Golden Gophers football

The Badgers are going to beat Ohio State once every decade, okay, or whatever you want to call it.

We have to be on par with Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, those teams that we have, like, for a long time routinely beat, and then we lost our way for a little bit, and they beat us, and that's what we got to get back.

So it starts with Iowa.

And it ends with Iowa because – Wisconsin, which held USC to seven points last week, just looked horrific.

Because if they would have made it 10-7 going into the half, that would have been a game again, and it was exactly where you thought it would have been.

And it just kind of – went off the rails a little bit.

But to your point, I know that it's a long season and they could theoretically win nine games this year if they beat Minnesota at the end of the year.

Every fan that was mad about Wisconsin football in the offseason would have unequivocally taken nine wins if you would have given them that option in July.

And the thing that bothers me, listen, we'll get into the details of the game, but the thing that bothers me is the emotional side of this.

As a fan, after all that we've been through, To just get throttled by them again? I mean, after being 5-2 and being the 16th ranked team in the country, you're just going to go and allow 30 points when our stupid rodent rivals Minnesota went there and beat them last week, like 13-10? What are we doing? Where is the passion? Where is the energy? Where is the coaching? I'm sorry, Luke Fickle, you've got to take a lot of responsibility here.

Once again, I would just...

It just bends us over.

It's so maddening.

Like, I mean, we as fans, we have two rivalry games that we play every year.

Iowa, Minnesota.

Those are the two games that we have.

Right now.

When was the last time that the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team owned all three of them?

They mentioned that.

And I'm just going to guess like 1961, maybe when they won the Rose Bowl.

This could go like eight overtimes and neither team would score.

But yeah, for the first time, Bob, since 1967, the Minnesota Golden Gophers own all three of the Little Brown Jug, Floyd of Rosedale, and the Axe.

Wow, isn't that amazing? I almost want to go down there just to see them.

Yeah.

For Michigan, it is the game in between the two biggies.

It's the Illini in Champaign sandwiched between another comeback win over Minnesota and the showdown at Purdue for the Spartans.

It's a home game against the Minnesota team trying to get over that loss to Michigan.

Hello, everybody.

I'm Don Shane.

He, of course, is Bo Schembechler.

We must start with the drive, as we call it now, to win that game over Minnesota.

Chad Henney, the freshman.

Also at halftime, score Kansas City 14, Denver 3.

Later games, Detroit at Los Angeles, Minnesota at Dallas, Philadelphia at San Diego, and St. Louis is at San Francisco to play the 49ers.

Well,

yesterday's crowd, 41,609, the largest crowd ever to see a championship series game here in Oakland.

In the National League's second game of the playoffs on Sunday, here's some details of the ballgame.

Of course, as we mentioned, won by the Dodgers 5-2 over the Pirates.

Ron Stray was winning that as he lies to the Minnesota Stars.

Over to the fourth inning, then cuts off a 3-1 eighth inning rally with his second double.

But UCLA sitting there at 7-0.

Then you have Indiana, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Wisconsin all at 3-1.

And, Tony, I would say certainly Indiana we expected to be there.

But, boy, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have really come on these last couple of weeks.

Yeah, Northwestern, and I think it's the biggest surprise in the Big Ten, if not the country, at 6-1 and 3-1 in a big clash today going to Oregon with Chip Kelly making his return to Oregon as offensive coordinator, not only at OC at Northwestern, but a big, big-time candidate for the Broyles Award for the Assistant Coach of the Year with what he's done to the offense.

Northwestern is... third overall in the Big Ten in offense, second in rushing.

I think you've got to look at UCLA, obviously three undefeated.

The only contender, quote unquote, that they have left is a home game against USC.

And that's what Minnesota did last week.

We had to watch the Gophers recapture a trophy against the Hawkeyes because they just played smash-mouth football.

They forced turnovers, and they were able to get the job done in the end.

And what do we see from Wisconsin today? They tried to get too cute.

That also sucks to say.

If we're going to continue with the comparing of Wisconsin to Iowa, which clearly they're very far behind right now, and then to Minnesota, which beat this same Iowa team last week and beat Wisconsin last year...

As much as I despise the Golden Gophers, right now they are a better team than Wisconsin as well.

And Wisconsin's ceiling appears to be capped right around that halfway point in the Big Ten, which is not where we want to be as a program.

He's better than...

That's as high a compliment as I could give anyone from Minnesota or on the Golden Gophers team.

Man, what a joke.

Their fans are the worst.