There is a trick path to navigate when the Gophers open the season with a loss but yet you aren’t exactly upset by the loss. In a world that is increasingly binary I choose to believe that one can accept a loss to a top 5 team that has superior talent up and down their lineup, without being happy about it.
It is the old, “moral victory” bullshit that gets thrown around. Am I happy that we lost by “only” 14? No. But do I fee like I need to rant about how this is the same ol’Gophers and what an opportunity that was missed.