Shannon Brooks ran for 176 yards and changed the game with a 71-yard touchdown run early in the third quarter to help Minnesota break out of its offensive funk with a 41-13 blowout at Purdue. Adding to the misery, kicker Paul Griggs is battling a confidence problem that has now affected extra points.
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At present the Minnesota Golden Gophers show a record of 3-1, and have declared a corresponding line up of 1-3 against the spread.
ESPNU, STREAM Minnesota Purdue Live football Game Free Online Tv score radio Kick off time. While comparing defenses, the Minnesota Golden Gophers own the league’s No. 55 rank in terms of road run defense, allowing 172.0 yards per game.
Purdue head coach Darrell Hazell waits to hear the official’s call on a play during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Minnesota, Saturday, October10, 2015, in West Lafayette, Ind.
Despite good showings in most of his games this season and a standout game against Michigan State last week, the Boilermakers failed to start freshman running back and leading rusher Markell Jones, and then handed him the ball just six times, as the team gained 68 yards combined on the ground. You have to play when guys get nicked up. He completed 8 of 12 passes for 59 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. It is a matter of staying positive, because we all knew this time would come.
“We have to take a close look at everything we’re doing, schematically, fundamentally and make sure we get better”, Hazell said. “I’m confident we’ll have the funds flow needed to pay for this, and I think our student-athletes deserve the chance to have the kind of facilities that our competitors have”. “All of a sudden we were out of sync”. Minnesota had won with defense and that once again proved a strength the Boilers couldn’t handle.
After Ryan Santoso’s 37-yard field goal cut Purdue’s lead to 6-3, Myrick picked off Blough, putting the ball at the Purdue 37.
But it was Brooks’ strong runs that kept the Gophers offense chugging and eventually got them out of their scoring funk. (Why the voters can’t adjust their assumptions after Oregon was crushed by Utah is an open question.) And a third is that Michigan State has been excellent in the past two seasons and the sheen of those top-five finishes rubs off on this year’s team.
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“I am a physical runner, so I didn’t really try to make a lot of moves”, Brooks said. “It was only 10-6 coming out of halftime, and then that long run, just for momentum, was a big play”.
