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Message: [QUOTE="DynstyUgrl, post: 850035, member: 4137"] I don't think its so much that Gopher fans feel that they "deserve" a better opponent as much as they just wanted a better opponent, so that we'd have a chance of upsetting a ranked team and maybe we could move up into the rankings ourselves. A big win over a ranked SEC team getting us to 9-4 just might eek us up into the Top 25 rankings? Beating Syracuse 59-3 won't help us even. Maybe we'll get a few more votes, but what good does that do us. And realistically we aren't going to win by more than 1 score or maybe 10 points? And its just as likely that we could lose. That's not going to be accepted. The perception already is that we should win, so if we don't, we lose, and if we win, we don't lose but we don't necessarily win either. As for going back to the Texas Bowl, yes, we are disappointed about going back to the same bowl again, and YES!!! Absolutely I am sure the Texas Bowl is disappointed in getting us again. I doubt they are very thrilled about getting Syracuse, too. Honestly. It's Houston. What interest do they have in either Minnesota or Syracuse?! And specifically getting Syracuse again, after having played you just last year, its nothing personal, I think separate from all other factors, Syracuse is a great opponent for the Gophers. I don't mind seeing Syracuse on the schedule at all, just not in a bowl game that we were at last year and one year removed from the last time we played you. And I'm not going to slit my wrists over it, there were a lot worse options. I'd much rather have Syracuse than Texas Tech again or almost any of the none BCS teams out there, even a ranked one, because there is not upside in playing a non-BCS ranked team either. It's a no win situation. You almost have to beat an SEC team to move up, or maybe a Pac 12 team? We haven't played a lot of Pac 12 teams lately, cept USC, I'd have liked to played one of them. Hey, if anything I'm enjoying some of the banter between our two teams fans. [/QUOTE]

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