Gophers are as good at beating mediocre teams as any team in the country.
Luckily for the Gophers, Wisconsin hasn't been as good on the road as they have at home yet.
Quad 1 is 1-25 Home 1-35 Neutral and 1-45 Road.
Oregon coming into today's NET was 24. Even if they aren't that good (like how the Gophers probably aren't the 16th best team in the country), any Top 45 team is basically equivalent to any sort of (at-large) Tournament-caliber team (which Oregon...
I'm not going to bother to double check, but since the start of Big Ten play in 2019-2020 (after the Gophers beat Arizona St and down-year Notre Dame non-conference then their season fell apart), the Gophers are something like 10-40 when on National TV (including Peacock) including 2-18 on games...
It goes by the opponent being ranked in the poll at the time of the game.
Whether, what matters for selection purposes, it's a Q1 or Q2 win, depends on how they do the rest of the season (they were NET 26 and probably won't go down much, if at all from this).
Purdue just beat Washington (first Top 25 win since 2023) so as of the now the only Big Ten teams that haven't beaten a Top-25 team in the past year alone, besides the Gophers, are Northwestern and Rutgers (last won in 2022).