Know thy Opponent 2018: Minnesota Golden Gophers

I find Minnesota as one of our most fascinating opponents over the next few seasons, and it is because of P.J. Fleck. Minnesota hired Fleck at the same time we got Jeff Brohm, and at the time, he was THE hot commodity on the coaching search market. A lot of our fans wanted Mike Bobinski to go after him and with good reason. He guided Western Michigan to an undefeated regular season, a big money bowl, and he won more games that year against the Big Ten (two) than Purdue (one). We may never know how close he came to rowing the boat to West Lafayette, but he was probably at least considered.