Missed opportunities

 The Gophers revamped their football uniforms for 2024, and they are a big upgrade:

Lots of Gold, no white numbers. Big improvement.

2023 Home look for reference:

Looking like a maroon Rutgers.

Mizzou continues to have the perfect set:

Full kits of both team colors, a white kit, lots of sharp helmets. Best of all, the stripes on the helmets, jerseys and pants all match. You can mix all three kits. Outstanding.

Our only complaint is the white numbers on the black jerseys, so the grade is only 95/100.

Iowa State, however, is going backwards.

"Hey, Nike- what's your stock look for this season? Great! And remove all the gold you can. We want to look as much like Rutgers as possible."

Aim kinda medium, folks. Kinda medium. Stock is fine.

Near Miss

While the Chiz era was a big slice of No Fun Football, at least we weren't saddled with the football genius of Tim Brewster. Its going to take the Gophers years to recover from him.



We're damn lucky he was too good to be ISU's coach.

Bullet Dodged

Even with the fiasco that was Chiz, I think ISU dodged a bullet by not being able to woo Brewster. Good thing he thought enough of himself not to work for such a downtrodden program as Iowa State. He's a man with upside!

Once in a great while I am prophetic.

Peter

"It"

Keeler declares Rhodes restores "It" to Iowa State.

Peter

Minney Recap

"...an extraordinarily beatable Iowa State team .." won anyway.

The defense held when it needed to.

Scoreboard.

Peter

Update:The comments to the recap are epic.

Big Win

Called It.

A big step forward for the program. Celebrate, then get in the weight room, boys.

Peter

Insight

My hunch is that Iowa State will beat the Gophers, but in a painful, pass-the-kidney-stone kind of game.

Neither team will score much, as each defense is better than the opposing offense. A wacky play or special teams breakdown will be the difference.

14-13 ISU.

Peter

More Brewster Questions

Now ESPN jumps on the Brewster speculation bandwagon.

Remember, Brewster was too good to take the ISU job in '07.

I made a joke then about Brewster playing too many snaps without a helmet. I think it still applies.

Peter

Scoring

Iowa State is 75th in total offense, but 102nd in scoring offense.

That's been the offensive problem since Seneca left- lots of yards, not enough points.

Minnesota has a decent scoring defense (56th), and an offense that looks bad on paper (113th overall) but one that scores 30+ when they are not playing a Top 10 Defense. Can ISU slow them down?

At least ISU has the "Happy to be here" angle. The Gophers clearly aren't.

Peter

D

The only game ISU didn't win when they held their opponent under their season scoring average was Okie State.

Minnesota's average: 21.5.

Peter