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per Randy:
The preferred way for teams to make a bowl is to get at least six wins, but a 5-7 record will get a team in if there are not enough six-win teams to fill the 78 bowl spots and they have the highest multiyear Academic Progress Rate (APR). That’s how the Gophers went to the Quick Lane Bowl in 2015 despite a 5-7 record. Currently, there are 59 bowl-eligible teams, with the Gophers among 21 teams with five wins.
Minnesota’s multiyear APR is 992, tied with Duke and Vanderbilt, who are both 4-6. If all three finish 5-7 and there are bowl openings, the tiebreaker of single-year APR would rank Vanderbilt first, Duke second and the Gophers third.
Jerry Palm, a CBSSports.com college football analyst who specializes in bowl projections, projects the Gophers to finish 5-7 and go to the Foster Farms Bowl to play Stanford on Dec. 27 in Santa Clara, Calif. That’s a change from last week, when he had Minnesota outside, looking in. He now expects two openings for 5-7 teams and has the Gophers and Indiana (4-6 with a 982 APR) filling them, with the Hoosiers going to the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...-for-bowl-but-five-could-be-enough/457099173/
Go Gophers!!
The preferred way for teams to make a bowl is to get at least six wins, but a 5-7 record will get a team in if there are not enough six-win teams to fill the 78 bowl spots and they have the highest multiyear Academic Progress Rate (APR). That’s how the Gophers went to the Quick Lane Bowl in 2015 despite a 5-7 record. Currently, there are 59 bowl-eligible teams, with the Gophers among 21 teams with five wins.
Minnesota’s multiyear APR is 992, tied with Duke and Vanderbilt, who are both 4-6. If all three finish 5-7 and there are bowl openings, the tiebreaker of single-year APR would rank Vanderbilt first, Duke second and the Gophers third.
Jerry Palm, a CBSSports.com college football analyst who specializes in bowl projections, projects the Gophers to finish 5-7 and go to the Foster Farms Bowl to play Stanford on Dec. 27 in Santa Clara, Calif. That’s a change from last week, when he had Minnesota outside, looking in. He now expects two openings for 5-7 teams and has the Gophers and Indiana (4-6 with a 982 APR) filling them, with the Hoosiers going to the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...-for-bowl-but-five-could-be-enough/457099173/
Go Gophers!!