Minnesota vs Wisconsin: Opening line, points total released with Gophers as small favorite
The Minnesota Golden Gophers have lost two straight games and three of their last four, turning a once promising 5-2 campaign into a 6-5 record.
The Gophers will now look to find their footing in their regular season finale on Saturday afternoon when they host the Wisconsin Badgers at Huntington Bank Stadium, with the Gophers also hoping to keep Paul Bunyan’s axe in the Twin Cities.
The Gophers enter game week with the Badgers as a 1.5-point favorite. The over/under is currently set at 37.5 points courtesy of BetMGM.
P.J. Fleck discusses Wisconsin
“Big week for us, Axe Week. Obviously, playing Wisconsin and Senior Day,” Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck said on Monday morning. “So it’s a big day for a lot of guys who have given so much to our program.”
While the Gophers have struggled in recent weeks, the Wisconsin Badgers under head coach Luke Fickell have been playing their best football.
After a 2-5 start, the Badgers have been competitive in each of their last four games against Oregon, Washington, Indiana, and Illinois, including picking up wins over No. 24 Washington and Illinois. Fleck discussed the Badgers play over the last several weeks on Monday.
“First of all when you look back at their schedule they had a gauntlet of a schedule,” Fleck said. “They played some of the best teams in the country every single week.”
The Gophers’ head coach also acknowledged that the Badgers offense has been changing in numerous ways over the last several weeks.
“When you look at them, and while they’ve continued to change weekly—it’s almost a new offense every single week,” Fleck said. “As they got to the last three to four weeks here with new people, a new system, they’ve done some things defensively, too, that they’ve changed up a ton.”
“They have really captured what they’re going to be really good at to finish this year, and done it at a very high level,” he continued. “And they showed that against Illinois last week. I mean, that film, I mean, that looked like that had been their offense the entire year, the way they were executing that at the level that they were doing. So it’s just an honor to play in the rivalry, and we got to play our best football of the year. That’s for sure.”
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