Saturday’s season-opening loss to Michigan was the first game of the Sanford & Simon era at Minnesota, and it was an inauspicious start to say the least. But new offensive co-coordinators Mike Sanford Jr. and Matt Simon’s unit was far from the Gophers’ biggest problem, and I’m not sure how fair an assessment you can make considering they were trailing virtually the entire game and under pressure to score on every possession.
Most fans came into the game wondering how Sanford would put his own unique stamp on the Gophers’ offense, and there were a few interesting new wrinkles worth calling attention to.