Minnesota: What Did We Learn?

[NoKoolAidForME]

I learned that a lot more people bought into the hype of this being a dark-horse playoff team with fewer than 2 losses. If that wasnt the case there would be near as much outrage. Unless you were thinking 11 or 12 wins, then you were expecting to lose 3 - 5 games. If that was the expectation, then you would have to think a game or two like Friday was possible. Even on the pre-season poll thread on here, only 7.8% thought 10 or 11 wins. https://www.huskerboard.com/threads/2025-season-prediction-poll-thread.105148/

The majority of the votes were in the following categories:​

10-3 (9-3 regular season with bowl win) 31.2%​

10-3 (9-3 regular season with bowl win) 24.7%​

8-5 (8-4 regular season with bowl loss) and 9-4 (9-3 regular season with bowl loss) were both tied at 10.4%​

 

[BigRedBuster]

Seems like this was the same story under Frost: we could move the ball pretty well but struggled to turn those yards into points.


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So, isn’t that showing we’re above average in numbers of quality drives and about average in turning them into points?

 

[lo country]

So, isn’t that showing we’re above average in numbers of quality drives and about average in turning them into points?

I think Akron and HCU really pad our numbers. I might be wrong.

 

[presidentjlh]

I learned that a lot more people bought into the hype of this being a dark-horse playoff team with fewer than 2 losses. If that wasnt the case there would be near as much outrage. Unless you were thinking 11 or 12 wins, then you were expecting to lose 3 - 5 games. If that was the expectation, then you would have to think a game or two like Friday was possible. Even on the pre-season poll thread on here, only 7.8% thought 10 or 11 wins. https://www.huskerboard.com/threads/2025-season-prediction-poll-thread.105148/

The majority of the votes were in the following categories:​

10-3 (9-3 regular season with bowl win) 31.2%​

10-3 (9-3 regular season with bowl win) 24.7%​

8-5 (8-4 regular season with bowl loss) and 9-4 (9-3 regular season with bowl loss) were both tied at 10.4%​

The fact we lost is not really the inherent issue. The fact that we lost because we got our asses completely kicked is the issue.

 

[BigRedBuster]

 

[gobiggergoredder]

Hasn’t he been posting people are overreacting in previous weeks?

 

[Hilltop]

Hasn’t he been posting people are overreacting in previous weeks?

Did you go read and watch the tweets you are quoting? He isn't overreacting in any way. I appreciate the actual play by play breakdown with very little emotion involved.