{"id":7384,"date":"2010-08-25T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2010-08-25T13:58:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T18:58:39","slug":"rough-year-in-store-for-minnesota-golden-gophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/rough-year-in-store-for-minnesota-golden-gophers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Year in Store For Minnesota Golden Gophers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/\">College football handicappers <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/fantasy-football-rankings-2010\/\">fantasy football experts<\/a> are spending nearly every waking hour getting ready for some football. <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\">Bodog<\/a> helps bettors out with a Minnesota Golden Gophers preview.<\/p>\n<p>With 50\/1 odds to win the Big Ten Championship, it looks like another ho-hum year on tap for the Minnesota Golden Gophers\u2014win about half your games, battle for a bowl game appearance, and call it a day.<\/p>\n<p>Considering Minnesota\u2019s constant turnover at offensive coordinator, perhaps the program should consider hosting a reality show to select one annually; it would generate some interest in the team, and we hear Lindsay Lohan is looking for work.<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, the Gophers are on their third coordinator in as many years\u2014a nightmare for consistency and continuity. The team managed a conference-worst 21.6 points per game last year, including a brutal 99.5 yards per game on the ground. That could change this year thanks to an influx of talented freshmen.<\/p>\n<p>The defense will be undergoing a painful transition, as all seven starters from the front seven must be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Get your <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\/sports-betting\/ncaa-college-football.jsp\">NCAA Football Odds<\/a> in the Bodog Sportsbook! <a href=\"http:\/\/offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?PageID=140\">Grandmaster Sports Handicapper<\/a> Joe Duffy\u2019s expert take: Thank God for Indiana. The Golden Gophers are in for a very long year but they are better than the Hoosiers. But there isn\u2019t much glory to being 10<sup>th<\/sup> in a Big Ten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College football handicappers and fantasy football experts are spending nearly every waking hour getting ready for some football. Bodog helps bettors out with a Minnesota Golden Gophers preview. With 50\/1 odds to win the Big Ten Championship, it looks like another ho-hum year on tap for the Minnesota Golden Gophers\u2014win about half your games, battle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/rough-year-in-store-for-minnesota-golden-gophers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rough Year in Store For Minnesota Golden Gophers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7386,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}