Monday, November 23, 2009
Kent Youngblood: Gophers Insider
The more pressing question revolves around the Gophers offense, which failed to score a touchdown in the past two games.
Photo right: Duane Bennett (center)
Subway Classic final: Gophers 87, Colorado 78
Kiara Buford scored 24 points and Ashley Ellis-Milan made a key putback basket down the stretch.
Jim Souhan, columnist
The facts are not the problem. A Minnesota football team finishing 6-6, or 3-5 in the Big Ten, or losing 12-0 to Iowa in Kinnick Stadium -- those facts, the ones that provided a coda to the 2009 regular season, are the norm for this program, not jarring aberrations.
A creative and relentless array of blitz packages helped the Gophers confuse the Hawkeyes and kept the U in the game.
Charlie Weis wouldn't blame Notre Dame for firing him.
Photo right: Charlie Weis
Iowa and Penn State ended their seasons eligible for an at-large BCS bid, and Oklahoma State and Virginia Tech are also in position to be eligible for invites to the four big-money bowl games even though they have no shot to win their conferences.
Mississippi, California and North Carolina, teams that started the season with lofty expectations before stumbling, have surged back into the AP Top 25 college football poll.
Tom Izzo won his 340th game at Michigan State on Sunday, tying the school record for victories in the No. 2 Spartans' 90-60 win over Valparaiso.
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