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Minnesota Football: The Monday Perspective is happy and winning is hard

Expectations can be a bitch.

We all very much expected the Gophers would beat Bowling Green (reasonably so) and were very disappointed when they did not.

We all expected they would beat Illinois at home and go into a huge Iowa game with a winning streak, the disappointment following that Illini loss was intense.

And really I personally came into this season with rather high expectations, expecting a couple bumps but a 9-3 regular season with a legitimate shot at winning the West.

They fell short of those 9 wins and they are not playing next Saturday in Indianapolis.