Midweek Review: Michigan 49-24 Minnesota

Success, as P.J. Fleck said and graphed in his first season, does not always arrive on a perfectly linear path. It is also not guaranteed to maintain over time; it may fade, even partially, and only with time may it return to its previous heights.

A shorthanded and young Minnesota team demonstrated this fact by getting shellacked by Michigan Saturday, tempering some (perhaps overly) expectant fans' enthusiasm for the follow-up to the program's 2019 breakthrough. Poor run defense and a formidable Michigan front did them in, and the Little Brown Jug continues its residency in Ann Arbor.

Every Pass Tanner Morgan Threw in 2019

The Gophers' 2019 season was its best in more than half a century, and the biggest reason for that was their dangerous passing attack. Minnesota jumped from 40th in FBS in passing yards per attempt the year prior to 6th. Tyler Johnson and Rashod Bateman were both named First Team All-Big Ten receivers, with Johnson breaking a bundle of the program's single-season and career records and Bateman appearing on multiple All-America teams. Tanner Morgan had the most productive season ever for a Gophers quarterback, setting single-season program records for passing yards, touchdowns, and completion rate.

With a new season beginning in just weeks, it is a good time to reexamine and try to learn something from the passes Morgan threw in his breakout sophomore year.

Here, then, are all 318 of those passes.

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