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How is Minnesota (5-7 record) in a bowl game?

Posted on 12/26/23 at 2:17 pm
Posted by Amarillo Tide
Amarillo, TX
Member since Aug 2023
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Posted on 12/26/23 at 2:17 pm
I’ve got COVID and feel like hell, so I’m switching channels and see Minnesota, with a 5-7 record in “The Quick Lane Bowl”. I thought you had to have at least a 6-6 record to go to a bowl?

I’m not losing sleep over this but IMO, it just confirms that a lot of these bowls are meaningless.
Posted by Bear88
Member since Oct 2014
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Posted on 12/26/23 at 2:31 pm to
And supposedly Minnesota had to pay their 3rd string QB $30,000 not to enter the portal so they could play
Posted by Alabama_Fan
The Road Less Traveled
Member since Sep 2020
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Posted on 12/26/23 at 2:36 pm to
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Just as they did that season, the Gophers qualified for a bowl with a 5-7 record because of a nationwide shortage of six-win teams. They had the best Academic Progress Rate score among the five-win teams and, by NCAA rule, got the open spot.

The only FBS teams with better scores than Minnesota either had six wins or more (Northwestern, Wisconsin, Clemson, Alabama, Mississippi and Ohio State) or fewer than five wins (Cincinnati).

Posted by bamatide07
Member since Jan 2019
5890 posts
Posted on 12/26/23 at 2:37 pm to
One of the teams that Michigan beat this year.
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