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Minnesota Football: What makes the Gophers’ RPO so effective?

The Daily Gopher | July 21, 2020

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ESPN sports analytics writer Seth Walder recently developed heat maps for a handful of college quarterbacks, identifying which parts of the field they attacked most in 2019.

Here is Walder’s map for Minnesota quarterback Tanner Morgan:

so let's try this again.

tanner morgan sure does love that middle of the field!

blue = high pic.twitter.com/3ojYHhoCLS— Seth Walder (@SethWalder) July 16, 2020

And Walder’s observation that Morgan loves the middle of the field is indeed accurate. There is a reason for that, and it has a lot to do with the RPOs that became the Gophers’ bread and butter under previous offensive coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca.





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