Early 2026 Minnesota Season Preview | Cover 3 Summer School
7/3/202627 min
Bud Elliott sits down with Ryan Burns of 247Sports to preview Minnesota’s 2026 season.
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Minnesota Team Site: https://247sports.com/college/minnesota/
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(00:00) Intro
(00:40) Year 10 Under P.J. Fleck
(3:22) QB Drake Lindsey
(6:06) Wide Receivers & Tight Ends
(8:32) Offensive Line
(11:19) Darius Taylor & Other Running Backs
(13:25) Under-The-Radar Player On Offense
(14:59) Outlook For Defense
(18:51) Under-The-Radar Player On Defense
(20:22) Schedule Breakdown
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:01
Indiana can, can sort of cement itself as we are no longer this team that's gonna be fighting for six wins anymore.
Bud Elliott· Host0:07
Malachi Toney, is he gonna be ready?
Speaker 10:09
Dante Moore, he, he showed improvement, better command.
Bud Elliott· Host0:12
What's going on, y'all? We are back here on the Cover 3 College Ball podcast. Another summer school edition. That's my man, Ryan Burns, Gopher Illustrated, joins us every single year to give us everything Minnesota. Ryan, what's going on, dude?
Ryan Burns· Guest0:29
Happy to be on here. We're in the- Yeah ... finally in the summer. Uh, like you said, I mean, we got just a few, few weeks here until we get to start to get in the hot and thick of it, so I'm ready for some college football, man.
Bud Elliott· Host0:40
And, like, P.J. Fleck now has gotta be one of the longest tenured, like is this year nine?
Ryan Burns· Guest0:45
[lips smack] Year ten, which puts him the second longest in the Big Ten behind Kirk Ferentz, which if, I've asked him about that where it's like, "Did you ever think you were gonna be here 10 years?" [laughs] And he's like, "God no."
Bud Elliott· Host0:56
No.
Ryan Burns· Guest0:57
[laughs] We're, you know, there's been some flirtations over the years, but again, we're still here in year 10 here in the P.J. Fleck era.
Bud Elliott· Host1:04
It, it, it seem, it seems like a, like a, like a good fit there, obviously. Another strong season last year, eight, eight and five overall. Um, I mean, a, a season I, I think Minnesota fans are probably pretty happy about, right?
Ryan Burns· Guest1:15
[lips smack] They're happy about it. I mean, we're talking about a program that, a- again, I even think about the over-under for this year where I think it's still sitting at five and a half, where I think death, taxes, and take the over on the Minnesota over-under has been a very fruitful thing for people for