Minnesota Gophers head coach Jerry Kill has followed a steady pattern everywhere he’s been. He takes a good stride forward from year one to year two, starts winning a lot more in year three and the program begins to take off from there.
Kill’s teams haven’t finished worse than third in year four of a program he’s had for that long, placing third at Emporia State and tying for the conference title at Southern Illinois.
In 2014, Kill’s Gophers followed that pattern nearly to a tee, as they continued to win football games and build up in Big Ten play.