Minnesota Golden Gophers Preview 2022: Season Prediction, Breakdown, Key Games, Players

Minnesota College Football Preview 2022: Team breakdown, season prediction, keys to the campaign, and what you need to know

Minnesota Golden Gophers Season Prediction, What Will Happen

Okay, Minnesota. We’re done with losing to the Bowling Greens of the world, right?

Under PJ Fleck, the Gophers occasionally have this annoying habit of needing to work way too hard against mediocre non-conference teams.

In the past they were able to win them all even when a a South Dakota State – not mediocre, just FCS – or a Fresno State or a Buffalo made things interesting. The Bowling Green loss shook that.

So assuming the Gophers got the yips out of their system, the first part of the schedule works perfectly. They need time to gear back up and find the right groove among all the new defensive players and on the line, and that’s what New Mexico State and Western Illinois are for.

There’s no Ohio State to start the season like this year or Michigan to kickoff 2020.

That should be enough scrimmage time to handle a Colorado team that has to come to Minneapolis, and then it’s on with a trip to Michigan State to start the Big Ten season.

Set The Minnesota Golden Gophers Regular Season Win Total At … 7.5

Minnesota should be 3-0, and it should be able to take care of Northwestern and Rutgers in Huntington Bank.

Purdue, at Illinois, at Nebraska – get two wins in that group and everything is great, but it’ll more likely be one.

At Michigan State, at Penn State, at Wisconsin – all three of those lean heavily to the loss column, and as mentioned before, beating Iowa for this program is a problem.

There’s no Ohio State or Michigan to face, but there will be loss Minnesota shouldn’t take – look out for Rutgers; really – and two wins it probably will end up stealing – at Nebraska? at Michigan State?

Seven wins has to be a given at this point for the Gophers under Fleck. Eight would be good, nine would be fantastic.

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