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SATURDAY FOOTBALL
THE COMPUTER POLL
THE POLL / Big Ten / 2026

MINNESOTA.

Every game. Every component. Every point accounted for.

COMPUTER RANK
#32
AP RANK
NR
RECORD
4–1
COMPUTER SCORE
72.37
Minnesota is #32 with a 4–1 record. Results contributes 20.00 points to its 72.37 total. Its most valuable win is over Washington (27–24), worth 2.08 résumé units. Strength of schedule is its lowest component at 54.7/100. The next team, Baylor, scores 71.13.

THE SCORE, DISASSEMBLED.

v1.0.0
Results · 25%
80.0 / 100
+20.000 points
Quality wins · 20%
77.4 / 100
+15.474 points
Strength of schedule · 20%
54.7 / 100
+10.949 points
Strength of record · 15%
75.2 / 100
+11.277 points
Road / neutral · 8%
85.8 / 100
+6.861 points
Capped dominance · 7%
65.7 / 100
+4.599 points
Loss quality · 5%
64.2 / 100
+3.212 points

SUM OF WEIGHTED CONTRIBUTIONS = 72.37226277
Adjusted OWP: 0.588235 · OOWP: 0.483963 · Raw SOS: 0.556954

THE SEASON SO FAR.

WEEKLY COMPUTER RANK

Movement history appears after the next published week.

THE RECEIPTS.

WKOPPONENTSITERESULTOPP. QUALITYWIN VALUELOSS PENALTY
2Mississippi StatehomeL 13–380.7293—1.6530
1Eastern IllinoisFCShomeW 59–70.0000+1.2000—
3AkronhomeW 41–70.3056+1.5820—
4WashingtonRoadW 27–240.6821+2.0812—
5MichiganhomeW 20–140.6935+1.9241—

Résumé units feed the quality-win and loss components before percentile normalization. They are not direct additions to the final score.

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