Gophers 101 | a Minnesota Gophers podcast
Sep 27, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 20 segments
Minnesota Gophers are 1-0 in Big Ten play after a huge late-night win in Washington over the Washington Huskies! Offense, defense and special teams were the name of the game for the Gophers in a win…
I, I wanna start with a big takeaway from each of us, but I think you and I actually via texting may have the same in air quotes "big takeaway," so you're free to either piggyback off what I'm gonna say or use something entirely different.
The big takeaway here actually has a lot to do with nothing that the Gophers did or didn't do on the field.
It has everything to do with the situation I think the head football coach found himself in and the program as they took the field in the late hours of the evening in Washington, Seattle, and then heading into the morning, early morning hours.
I don't know since P.J. Fleck has been here if the sentiment around him or the program has been as low as it is right now from the casuals.
And you can laugh about the casuals all you want, but the reality is you're not getting people into Huntington Bank Stadium and getting people excited about the program without the non-diehards.
And on a day where Wisconsin steals victory from the jaws of defeat at Happy Valley-
Can you imagine what we would be talking about today and the sentiment today if the Gophers didn't go on the road and get their first road victory since the 2024 season? To me, the big takeaway is that's about as big of a win as P.J.
But as we sit here this morning, for the Gopher football program, that is as big of a win if not the biggest in the P.J. Fleck era independent of even what Washington becomes this year.
They could not roll into this Sunday at two and two with your two biggest rivals getting perhaps two of the biggest wins in all of college football on Saturday, and then you lay an egg.
Well, what did we talk about last week? What, what did I say at the end of the pod last week? That we were gonna find out a lot about this football team in this game against Washington.
And I think what happened last night, and, you know, we're gonna get into some nitpicks and everything and talk about, you know, I got [laughs] I've got some thoughts on how Jovonn Tracy's per- mixed performance on special teams last night.
I, I wanna start with a big takeaway from each of us, but I think you and I actually via texting may have the same in air quotes "big takeaway," so you're free to either piggyback off what I'm gonna say or use something entirely different.
The big takeaway here actually has a lot to do with nothing that the Gophers did or didn't do on the field.
It has everything to do with the situation I think the head football coach found himself in and the program as they took the field in the late hours of the evening in Washington, Seattle, and then heading into the morning, early morning hours.
I don't know since P.J. Fleck has been here if the sentiment around him or the program has been as low as it is right now from the casuals.
And you can laugh about the casuals all you want, but the reality is you're not getting people into Huntington Bank Stadium and getting people excited about the program without the non-diehards.
And on a day where Wisconsin steals victory from the jaws of defeat at Happy Valley-
Can you imagine what we would be talking about today and the sentiment today if the Gophers didn't go on the road and get their first road victory since the 2024 season? To me, the big takeaway is that's about as big of a win as P.J.
But as we sit here this morning, for the Gopher football program, that is as big of a win if not the biggest in the P.J. Fleck era independent of even what Washington becomes this year.
They could not roll into this Sunday at two and two with your two biggest rivals getting perhaps two of the biggest wins in all of college football on Saturday, and then you lay an egg.
Well, what did we talk about last week? What, what did I say at the end of the pod last week? That we were gonna find out a lot about this football team in this game against Washington.
And I think what happened last night, and, you know, we're gonna get into some nitpicks and everything and talk about, you know, I got [laughs] I've got some thoughts on how Jovonn Tracy's per- mixed performance on special teams last night.
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