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On one hand, I get the frustration here, I think last year's team left some meat on the bone for sure. Not too far from a 9-win season, even 10-win if all fell right. Rutgers loss was a top five bad loss in PJ era and the UNC loss was bad not because the kicker missed it, but because the...

Those five names have been there since the stadium opened.

There is a ring of honor on the stadium facade, or at least the names of some of the all-time greats. It only has a few names on it (Kiel, Stephens, Smith, Nagurski, Bell). If your complaint is there should be more, I agree with you. If your complaint is they don't have any names on the ring...

I don't think there's a huge gulf between the two, but there's a wide enough gulf to not be outraged at the injustice of it all or to really worry too much about it at all. Record vs ranked teams last nine years: Justin Wilcox 5-21 (.192%) (26 total games vs. ranked teams) PJ Fleck 7-15...

There are a lot of Gopher fans in southwest Minnesota and is Sioux Falls who don't get a chance to see the Gophers in person that often. That was a lot of the crowd the time I went. Thought I'd mention there's a chance to get real close for those fans. Wasn't meant as a big criticism of...

The team leads the Big Ten in sacks and 2nd in TFLs. Defensive line can't be that soft. A couple of those guys have a big motor. Excited about that group up front on defense.

I attended one of the games in Sioux Falls a few years ago and there wasn't an empty seat in the place. Full of Gopher fans. Great night, great venue, great win. It is part of why I think its a good game to play (a neutral game that is really a home game.) But, I looked at Ticketmaster and...

Exactly.

Curious, how do you think the Big Ten teams are selected for bowl games?

Agree with this as most likely outcome. Music City has clear priority over Pinstripe. The tier system which was used for a few years is gone. It is about as close to a draft as you can get. The conference might step in to hit a contractual obligation or cover a loop hole, but that's about...

I was just going off the scenario presented that Nebraska was 9-3 in the example I was responding to. If Nebraska finishes 9-3, then the best Iowa can be is 7-5. I was not making any predictive statement on Iowa's final record. I agree, they will likely win both games left.

So, you have Nebraska in Orlando and Illinois in Tampa, and then what? You think Vegas, who gets a Big Ten team only every other year, and has never had Michigan (who almost never falls below Florida) will take 7-5 Iowa instead? And then after that, you're saying the Music City Bowl, which has...

To me, Illinois is the only real possibility of that for NYC this year. And, they probably need to lose one or both of their remaining games to dip to Pinstripe. Michigan isn't dropping that far. They just aren't.

Ten (10) times the Big Ten has sent teams to the Pinstripe Bowl. Seven of the ten times the conference has sent a crappy 6-6 team that seems to me has been behind any team headed to Nashville, Vegas, Charlotte, etc. Twice it has been a mediocre 7-5 team. Only one time in ten years has an...

NYC is in the mix, too. We will most likely be fighting for spots with Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois. Nebraska cannot go to NYC this year. So, there's a chance we get slotted there, especially if Illinois and Iowa win out. Penn State losing one of the next two would be helpful in avoiding...

How high up is the Pinstripe Bowl in selecting? Aren't they picking behind all of Orlando, Tampa, Vegas and Nashville? I don't see how Michigan falls past all four of those bowls, even at 8-4. Barring an unlikely bid to the playoffs, it seems likely to me that Michigan is headed to Orlando...

You realize Phil Parker was an internal Iowa hire and he was paid $300k in 2012 when he took over as DC. And, Iowa promptly went 4-8. Then, 8-5 the next year. 7-6 the year after. So 19-19 record Phil Parker's first three seasons. Sometimes things aren't linear.

They are not.

Correct.

A few teams can go that way. Here's IOWA: Non Conference (overall records) Albany 1-8 UMass 0-8 1-16 Big Ten (Big Ten records) Rutgers 1-5 Wisconsin 0-5 PSU 0-5 Minn 4-2 Total: 5-17 (MN worth 80% of the Big 10 wins in that stat)