I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Minnesota Golden Gophers haven’t played anyone.
Well, that’s not exactly true. The Gophers have beaten every team on their schedule up to this point to begin their season 8-0 for the first time since 1941.
But there are truthers out there who would have you believe that Minnesota is a fraud, that an asterisk belongs next to their 8-0 record because they squeaked past their three non-conference opponents and haven’t faced a Big Ten team with a pulse (i.e. a winning record).
Forget the fact that more than a few of these same people mocked preseason predictions of eight or more wins for the Gophers.