In publicly brushing off Minnesota’s mediocre 2020 campaign as “an anomaly,” it’s difficult to assess the sincerity of the sentiment from Ryan Day.
Whether or not the Ohio State head coach believes those words, Day must imbue himself and his team with the sort of edge required to outclass even the best version of its forthcoming opponents – Big Ten or otherwise.
What is not up for interpretation, though, is that the Golden Gophers followed up a breakout 11-2 2019 season – arguably the program’s best in nearly 60 years – with a sub-.500 dud during the COVID-19-shortened 2020 slate.