Big Ten football predictions for Minnesota in 2024

Sep 24, 2022; East Lansing, Michigan, USA; Minnesota Golden Gophers head coach PJ Fleck waves to fans at Spartan Stadium before playing MSU. Mandatory Credit: Dale Young-USA TODAY Sports

The Minnesota Golden Gophers are the Big Ten equivalent of what Cal was to the Pac-12. They have the longest Rose Bowl drought of any long-term Big Ten football member school. We define “long-term” as preceding Penn State’s arrival to the Big Ten in the 1990s. Penn State, then Nebraska, Rutgers and Maryland, are comparatively “late” joiners to the conference, followed by the four recent arrivals from the West, including USC. That’s how we have the 18-team conference which starts something new for the Big Ten in 2024. We at Trojans Wire will spend the 2024 season working with our College Wire colleagues at the websites whose teams are joining USC in moving to the Big Ten: Ducks Wire, UW Huskies Wire, and UCLA Wire. Our Big Ten football roundtable is predicting the records for all 18 Big Ten football teams. We predict, as a panel of college football observers, how well Minnesota football will do this season under coach P.J. Fleck, who flourished in 2019 and almost got the Gophers to the Rose Bowl, but whose boat is now going against the tide in Minneapolis.

ZAC NEEL, DUCKS WIRE — MINNESOTA GOES 5-7

DON SMALLEY, DUCKS WIRE — MINNESOTA GOES 7-5

ROMAN TOMASHOFF, UW HUSKIES WIRE — MINNESOTA GOES 5-7

MATT WADLEIGH, UCLA WIRE — MINNESOTA GOES 4-8

MATT ZEMEK, TROJANS WIRE — MINNESOTA GOES 4-8

“Top Five Takeaways from PJ Fleck’s August 19th Press Conference”

-Darius Taylor Update/Running Back Depth Discussion
-First Thoughts on UNC
-Quality Competition on Gopher Roster
-Growth at Corner
-Fleck Feels Gopher Fans are Underrated@Minnesota247 https://t.co/SyTf31eUCT

— Ryan James (@RyanJamesMN) August 19, 2024

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Publish date : 2024-08-25 21:06:11

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