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A Pro-Gopher Post (Gasp!)


Raise your torches and pitchforks - I am going to support Minnesota's 25 ranking.

Here are the teams with better or equivalent records (win %) to Minnesota and are unranked. The bold names are the only ones in a P5 conference (or Notre Dame).

- Marshall

- Colorado State

- Air Force

- Boise State

- Duke

- Northern Illinois

- Georgia Southern

- Utah State

- Bowling Green

- Iowa

- Louisiana

- Louisiana Tech

- Memphis

- Notre Dame

- Western Michigan

So let's look at Duke, Iowa, and Notre Dame.

Duke has 1 win against an FBS team with a winning record (Georgia Tech)

Iowa has 0 wins against an FBS team with a winning record (womp womp)

Notre Dame has 1 win against an FBS team with a winning record (Rice) and has lost 3 of the last 4

Minnesota has 1 win against an FBS team with a winning record (Iowa)

Following our proud Baylor logic - Minnesota > Iowa for sure. Notre Dame's best win is Rice and is losing as fast as Kansas, and Duke's wins are not at all impressive.

TL;DR version: There are four P5 teams with records akin to Minnesota. Minnesota has the best win of all 4. Therefore, they are appropriately ranked at 25.

There is hope! They will likely lose both of their remaining games. Let's not appear to be raving, uninformed fans when we proclaim Baylor's merits. Focus on Saturday, black out McLane Stadium, and force the CFB committee to watch our highlights.

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