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Passing the time between now and August 30th I've taken to looking up random facts.

Without cheating....

1. Minnesota has their best B1G winning percentage against __________
2. Minnesota has beat __________ more than any other team in their history
3. Against FBS opponents they've played 10 or more times, Minnesota has the best winning percentage against _________
4. Minnesota has their worst B1G winning percentage against ___________
5. The Gophers have never beaten two current Pac-12 teams: ________ and ________
 

Gopher07 said:
Passing the time between now and August 30th I've taken to looking up random facts.

Without cheating....

1. Minnesota has their best B1G winning percentage against __________
2. Minnesota has beat __________ more than any other team in their history
3. Against FBS opponents they've played 10 or more times, Minnesota has the best winning percentage against _________
4. Minnesota has their worst B1G winning percentage against ___________
5. The Gophers have never beaten two current Pac-12 teams: ________ and ________
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Guessing.

1. Indiana
2. Iowa
3. Iowa St.
4. Ohio St.
5. Oregon, Colorado
 

ColNathanJessup said:
Guessing.

2. Iowa
3. Iowa St.
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You got 2 and 3 right: Minnesota has an all-time record of 61-42-2 against Iowa for the most wins against and FBS team. Second most? Wisconsin, 59-54-8.

And against Iowa State, Minnesota is 22-3-1 all time, outscoring the Cyclones an average of 22-6.
 

And in your edit, #4 is right. Gophers are 7-43 all time against the Buckeyes, a 14% winning clip. Second worst is Michigan, 24-71-3 (26%).
 





CrocShots said:
#5 Utah and Oregon St?
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No and No.

I should add Colorado is correct in the first reply. Minnesota is 0-3 all time against the Buffaloes:

38-6 L in 1972
58-0 L in 1991
21-20 L in 1992

Minnesota is 1-1 against Utah (W 1967, L 1990), 2-1 against the Beavers (W 1954, 1981, L 1978)

Illinois is not correct either for #1
 




BEGopher said:
#1 Northwestern?
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Ding ding ding, winner. Gophers are 50-32-5 (60%) against Northwestern all time. Iowa is second, a 59% winning percentage. Still looking for the other Pac 12 team the Gophs have never beat.
 

Who said Oregon? They're the most recent Pac-12 team we've beaten. :)

I'll go dark horse and guess Arizona.
 

Nokomis said:
Who said Oregon? They're the most recent Pac-12 team we've beaten. :)

I'll go dark horse and guess Arizona.
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1-0 all time against the Wildcats, a 62-0 beatdown in 1939.
 

I was going to say Arizona as well. I'm just throwing things out, but I'll guess the other Zona squad (ASU).
 



Breakin' The Plane said:
I was going to say Arizona as well. I'm just throwing things out, but I'll guess the other Zona squad (ASU).
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Got it! 0-1 all time against the Sun Devils, losing 48-26 in 1969. The Gophers have at least one win against all 10 other Pac 12 teams:

10-7 vs Washington
3-1 vs Oregon
2-4 vs Cal
2-3 vs Washington St
2-1 vs Oregon St
2-1 vs UCLA
1-6-1 vs USC
1-1-1 vs Stanford
1-1 vs Utah
1-0 vs Arizona
0-1 vs Arizona St
0-3 vs Colorado
 

Ok, one more.

Gophers have played 9 of the 10 current Big XII teams. Which one haven't they played, and which two have they played but never defeated?
 

Here's a fun piece a trivia: Which is the most recent B1G team to beat Alabama?
 


Gopher07...I will go with West Virginia as the team they have never played and I will say we have never beaten TCU and OU

Nokomis...MINNESOTA
 

Stan The Caddy said:
Gopher07...I will go with West Virginia as the team they have never played and I will say we have never beaten TCU and OU

Nokomis...MINNESOTA
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Two out of three. Have never played West Virginia, and have never beaten OU, losing 13-7 in 1985 and 63-0 in 1986. The Gophers are 1-0 all time against TCU, a 9-7 W in 1974. They paid us back by sending Wacker though.
 


Gopher07 said:
Ok, one more.

Gophers have played 9 of the 10 current Big XII teams. Which one haven't they played, and which two have they played but never defeated?
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I'm going to agree with Stan and say we've never played West Virginia, but I'm going to say they've never beaten Texas Tech or Texas A&M.

Edit - didn't see that OU was correct, but I'm sticking with TT as the other school.
 

Stan The Caddy said:
Texas Tech?
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Bingo. The infamous comeback game in the Insight Bowl is our one and only game against the Red Raiders.

Against the current Big XII:

22-3-1 vs Iowa St
3-4 vs Kansas
2-0 vs Oklahoma St
1-0 vs Baylor
1-0 vs TCU
1-0 vs Texas
1-2 vs Kansas St
0-1 vs Texas Tech
0-2 vs Oklahoma
0-0 vs West Virginia
 

Lakeville Goldy said:
I'm going to agree with Stan and say we've never played West Virginia, but I'm going to say they've never beaten Texas Tech or Texas A&M.
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A&M is an SEC school now, but we've never actually played them
 

Lakeville Goldy said:
I'm going to agree with Stan and say we've never played West Virginia, but I'm going to say they've never beaten Texas Tech or Texas A&M.

Edit - didn't see that OU was correct, but I'm sticking with TT as the other school.
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Lakeville...Texas A&M is in the SEC now.
 


Side note, I'd love to play the Mountaineers some time. Morgantown looks like a good time (for a football game...probably wouldn't ever want to live there)
 

Gopher07 said:
Side note, I'd love to play the Mountaineers some time. Morgantown looks like a good time (for a football game...probably wouldn't ever want to live there)
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Milan Puskar field (in Morgantown) sells beer as well.
 

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