| #14 Wisconsin Badgers (6-2, 8-3) at Minnesota Golden Gophers (5-3, 7-4) |
| 4:00 - Minneapolis, MN - FOX |
| Feels like not that long ago that Minnesota controlled their own destiny with regards to the Big Ten Championship Game, and Wisconsin was battling for bowl eligibility. Well, it's Thanksgiving weekend, and Wisconsin is back in control of the Division. Northwestern has grabbed the division twice, once in a COVID year, but nobody else has won it since Iowa six years ago. Minnesota has never won it, and the fact that they aren't playing for it this year is their own fault. Losing in Iowa City is forgivable. Losing at home to Illinois, when your defense gives up 14, isn't. The Gophers bounced back from a two game losing streak (their first two game divisional losing streak since 2017) with a dominant win over a reeling Indiana team last week. But now they try to win the Axe for just the second time in the past 18 years. The most Wisconsin thing ever is to have your starting running back transfer; you backup running back suffer a season ending injury, only to discover your #3 back is actually the most talented on the team. Braelon Allen has run for over 400 yards over the past two weeks, alone nearly twice as many yards as Minnesota has allowed the opposition this year. However, the Badgers will be the first opponent to average over 5 ypc that Minnesota has faced since the season opener, when Ohio State ran for 201...while not realizing Tre'Veyon Henderson was their best back. He was fourth on the team in carries in that game. Granted, for Wisconsin, they also haven't faced a defense this good against the run since Michigan, back in the first weekend of October. So has Wisconsin's run game actually figured it out, or have they stopped playing good run defenses? I'll buy the track record. |
| WISCONSIN 26, MINNESOTA 21 |
I am not sure to root for the Gophers, or the Badgers. If the Gophers win, the Hawkeyes are the sacrificial lamb.Badgers.
Wisconsin is going to boat race the fighting boat rowers.
An Iowa win in Indy would throw some wrenches.Oh Please,Oh Please,Oh Please,Oh Please
https://youtu.be/I0dPt4OsoBI
Losing to Minnesota, especially if due, is a temporal disappointment.Really? We're going there?
A disgrace is Nassar at Michigan State, Sandusky at Penn State, Alec Baldwin opening fire on a movie set.
-What probably helped rankle him is that the Gophers won by giving the Badgers a big dose of their own medicine. Both Gopher lines bullied the starch out of their counterparts in white jerseys. I know some were saying that Allen was banged up and/or got hurt, but even if he was at full strength, he had nowhere to go. 47 yards on 17 carries isn't gonna get it done.
“It’s honestly the worst feeling in the world,” UW senior cornerback Caesar Williams said. “It just feels like a disgrace to the program for us to lose the Axe.”
Some thoughts now that I'm sitting at my computer and working on recovering:and some bad gas station sushi
-To the loudmouthed jackass Badger fans 10 rows behind us that left with 8 minutes to go: I hope you all got speeding tickets.
Some thoughts nowThose odds are particularly high on Thanksgiving weekend coupled with end of deer gun season. 90/94 stinks all around .
-To the loudmouthed jackass Badger fans 10 rows behind us that left with 8 minutes to go: I hope you all got speeding tickets.
Some thoughts now that I'm sitting at my computer and working on recovering:Allen was hurt early on, twisted his ankle. He had some nice long runs early.
-What probably helped rankle him is that the Gophers won by giving the Badgers a big dose of their own medicine. Both Gopher lines bullied the starch out of their counterparts in white jerseys. I know some were saying that Allen was banged up and/or got hurt, but even if he was at full strength, he had nowhere to go. 47 yards on 17 carries isn't gonna get it done.