Gophers or Vikings: Who wins more this year?

September 3, 2014 at 1:09AM
New Tampa Bay Rays baseball player Manny Ramirez smiles while answering a question after being introduced to the media during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
New Tampa Bay Rays baseball player Manny Ramirez smiles while answering a question after being introduced to the media during a news conference, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The sports debates are the ones in which both sides have logical points to be made. As such, we bring you a sports debate this morning: which football team will win more games this season — the Gophers or the Vikings.

On the surface, the Vikings should always have the edge since they play four more regular-season games than the Gophers. Then again, the U gets a chance for a pretty good head start every season with the soft non-conference schedule favored by many BCS schools. A decent year in college football, really, is seven or eight wins. Same goes for the NFL.

manny being manny Manny Ramirez is a changed man and has helped the Cubs' prospects develop, per a story at foxsports.com.

room to improve The Vikings open the regular season at No. 26 in ESPN's power rankings. Week 1 opponent St. Louis is No. 24..

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