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He visited Minnesota this weekend and his dad played baseball there I think that may end up being the landing spot.

Not much change in the CFB Playoff Poll this week but a couple non power 5 teams do finally enter the poll in Boise State and Marshall. 1.Alabama 2.Oregon 3.Florida State 4.Mississippi State 5.TCU 6.Ohio State 7.Baylor 8.UCLA 9.Georgia 10.Michigan State 11.Arizona 12.Kansas State 13.Arizona State 14.Wisconsin 15.Auburn 16.Georgia Tech 17.Missouri 18.Minnesota 19.Ole Miss 20.Oklahoma 21.Clemson 22.Louisville 23.Boise State 24.Marshall 25.Utah

Murphy was also out and I think that was probably performance based.

I don't know if Nebraska will ever be the Nebraska of old again even if they do let Pelini go and get a different coach. I was happy to see for the 2nd year in a row though that the Gophers were just able to outphysical Nebraska on their way to a win.

I think a lot of times you are worse off with a 3-on-0 than a breakaway or 2-on-0 just because you try to make sure everyone touches the puck and it slows you down a lot of times and takes away the rhythm you have. Agreed on Olson and a couple goals seemed like a real nice 21st birthday present for him I just hope he stays in the lineup consistently now.

Sounded like a pretty solid game from the Sioux tonight although the final score was probably closer than it should have been. The all freshman line seemed to play pretty well and I really like the size, skill, and physicality of Olson and Poganski on the same line and Simonson seems like a solid fit in the middle of that line.

Wisconsin beats Iowa 26-24 setting up a matchup with Minnesota next week to see who will represent the west in Indy. Michigan loses to Maryland at home and will have to beat Ohio State next week to become bowl eligible.

I'm kind of hoping that Auburn knocks off Alabama and Ole Miss beats Miss State next week just to throw everything into a big mess in the SEC.

They just always find a way to win although it hasn't been very pretty especially lately.

Poganski

Brad E. Schlossman ‏@SchlossmanGF 9m9 minutes ago Lots of changes today: Chyzyk not playing tonight (inj). Olson back in. Murphy out. Poolman at F. Mattson back in on D. MacMillan at C. So much for not needing to play players out of position this year because of depth although I think this is probably more just trying to get your guys that are playing the best right now all in the lineup.

Ohio State didn't help itself any struggling to a 42-27 win over Nebraska. Lot of cupcake out of conference games being played in the SEC today but Arkansas and Ole Miss could be a good one with the Razorbacks up 10-0 midway through the 1st quarter.

Solid road victory for the Gophers Leidner really stepped up and made some plays when Cobb went out. It is fun to see the Gophers just be able to physically beat a team like Nebraska. Chance to bring the Axe back to Minnesota and punch a ticket to Indy for the B1G Championship with a win next weekend.

Grant Mismash @GMISH16 · 21h 21 hours ago One hard decision Wouldn't be surprised at all if he is down to UND and Minnesota really hope we can land him.

Frustrating performance because the Sioux didn't do anything real well tonight and still only got beat because of a couple bad deflections. Lost way too many individual battles tonight and got outworked and outhustled most of the game. Gotta be better on the faceoffs and need to test Lindgren more tomorrow there were way too many good opportunities that either didn't hit the net or got blocked because guys didn't get the shot off quick. Hope to see this team come out a lot more physical tomorrow and that probably starts with inserting Olson into the lineup tomorrow. St. Cloud had it way too easy in front of the net and I wasn't happy to see nothing done about SCSU getting some late slashes on Zane again tonight that has happened way too often this season and that needs to change starting tomorrow.

Poganski also back in for Olson according to the UND linechart.

Andy Strickland @andystrickland · 6h 6 hours ago Matthew Tkachuk has decomitted from the University of Notre Dame. London #Knights own his #OHL rights. 2016 #NHL draft eligible #usntdp Would guess he ends up in the OHL but if he is still interested in the college route he would be a nice addition.

While I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Minnesota win this weekend Vegas has the Huskers as 10 point favorites right now.

Yeah a conference with 5 teams in the playoff committee's top 25 is absolutely horrible maybe the Big 10 should just disband. I'm looking forward to some Big 10 vs. SEC bowl matchups this year and think the Big 10 is in a lot better shape heading into those matchups than the past couple years.

I agree we don't and that is perfectly fine. Barrett is very good with his legs and has good speed but strength to go with it and I think that creates opportunities for him in the passing game especially big plays. I do think the best way to limit Ohio State's offense is to load up on the run and try to make Barrett a pocket passer but I've also seen him make some big plays that way too.

How much Big 10 football have you watched? JT Barrett is a legit Heisman contender for a reason and it isn't because he can't throw. The post I responded to said the top 7 teams in each conference so I just looked at the top 7 for matchups and had to decide whether to put A&M in or LSU or Florida and Maryland or Michigan. I can't see Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina, and LSU beating many of the top 5 in the B1G and yes LSU beat Wisconsin because Wisconsin blew the game and watching both teams the last couple weeks LSU looks like pretty much the same team while Wisconsin looks much improved as for my opinion on the 7 matchups: Alabama vs. Ohio State: Kind of a toss up but I would probably pick Alabama in a close game Miss State vs. Michigan State: I'd go with Michigan State I'm not sold on Miss State at all Ole Miss vs. Wisconsin: Another toss up Ole Miss D is very solid but Wallace can be up and down and the loss of Treadwell hurts Georgia vs. Nebraska: Probably a shootout both teams D are very inconsistent I'd take Georgia Missouri vs. Minnesota: I'd take the Gophers by about a TD Auburn vs. Iowa: Auburn just because Iowa has been inconsistent and had some trouble with speed stuff and outside running A&M vs. Maryland: Toss up A&M's defense is horrible and Maryland is an inconsistent team.

If you have watched recently a lot of analysts have started to say they made a mistake by judging the Big 10 to be horrible after 1 week of play and it is a lot stronger than they thought. The Big 10 does have 5 teams still ranked in the top 25 according to the playoff committee. I watch almost every Gopher game the loss at Illinois was just a horribly played game with a bunch unforced miscues and guys sick and throwing up on the sideline but they still should have won that game and would have if not for a late fumble inside their own 20 that Illinois was able to scoop up and score on.

If we took the top 7 from the B1G and top 7 from the SEC we would have something like: Alabama vs. Ohio State Miss State vs. Michigan State Ole Miss vs. Wisconsin Georgia vs. Nebraska Missouri vs. Minnesota Auburn vs. Iowa Texas A&M vs. Maryland I would give the B1G teams a decent chance to win 3 or 4 of those matchups.

I think Teddy has been solid especially considering the way players around him are playing. The Vikings running game has been up and down all year, WRs really struggle to get open at all and the WR who has been able to win on his routes the most lately is a guy they brought in off the street a few weeks into the season, and their OL has been pretty bad all year with Kalil especially getting beat regularly and quickly not allowing you too many chances to throw the ball down the field. He did make a bad decision on the interception at the end of the game last week and admitted as much but also said with the clocks not working he wasn't sure how much time was left so I'm thinking that may have had something to do with him forcing that throw. The defense was more disappointing to me Sunday because they weren't able to get to Cutler very much and allowed a Bears team that had been struggling to run the ball run for like 150yds. Blanton and Robinson were absolutely horrible for the Vikes and have been most of the year with where the Vikes are at I would like to see those 2 replaced by a couple younger options like Exum and Price just to at least get a consistent look at them and see whether they can be a solution to the problem.

I don't care at all about whether they are full D1 or not or what kind of university they are all I look at is what they are going to add as a hockey program to the conference and I see schools like Ferris State, Mankato, or Michigan Tech adding a lot more however those are 3 of the strongest teams in the WCHA and I would still like to see the WCHA have some successful teams as well so I definitely wouldn't be in favor of adding more than 1 of those teams.