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KNOW THIS

The Vikings have a 90 percent chance of making the playoffs, a 50 percent chance of winning the NFC North and a 3 percent chance of winning the Super Bowl, according to projections from fivethirtyeight.com.

WATCH THIS

If men's college basketball is your thing, there are four good Big Ten/ACC Challenge games on ESPN and ESPN 2 at 6:15 and 8:15.

RANDOM FANDOM

"The Gopher offense got better as the season went on and the defense got worse. Claeys should have fired the defensive coordinator. Oops!"

— E-mail from reader podman64.

Weigh in on what you're thinking about to mrand@startribune.com

TWEETED

"Sources say BOS separated itself from other teams significantly in the David Price bidding — which is what they had to do to get him."

Claeys

@Buster_ESPN