The Minnesota Golden Gophers are smack dab in the middle of the pack.
And for a coach in his first full-time year, that’s not such a bad place to be right now as the Big Ten continues to get more and more competitive.
The Gophers have proven they can put points on the board. They are again a feisty, hard-nosed bunch on defense. And it’s essentially assured each week that every opponent is going to get the best effort from Tracy Claeys and Minnesota, though a scoring offense and defense with matching rankings of No.