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Minnesota Football: The Monday Perspective is frustrated, not fatalistic

SIGH

That was frustrating. I get it. I’m with you.

Even with the Bowling Green loss on our record, there was plenty of reason for optimism for this 2021 season. Iowa and Wisconsin have looked rather pedestrian and at the same time the Gophers had been showing steady improvement over what was a 4-game winning streak.

The pieces were in place for the Gophers to win the Big Ten West, leapfrog their rivals and earn that elusive trip to Pasadena.

I was really looking forward to the game in Iowa City after taking down Nebraska, Maryland, Northwestern and Illinois in consecutive weeks.