The Hlists, Week 13: Win two Big Ten games, go to a bowl

THREE GAMES I WISH I'D ATTENDED

1. Minnesota 28, Nebraska 24

2. Angelo State 42, Michigan Tech 41

3. MIT 27, Husson 20 (OT)

THREE GAMES I'M GLAD I MISSED

1. Georgia 55, Charleston Southern 9

2. Florida 52, Eastern Kentucky 3

3. BYU 64, Savannah State 0

TEAMS VIRGINIA TECH LOST TO AFTER BEATING OHIO STATE IN COLUMBUS

1. East Carolina

2. Georgia Tech

3. Pittsburgh

4. Miami

5. Boston College

6. Wake Forest

BOWL-ELIGIBLE WITH 2-5 CONFERENCE RECORDS

1. Arkansas

2. N.C. State

3. Penn State

4. Rutgers

STREAKS

1. Urban Meyer's Big Ten regular-season record is 23-0.

2. Notre Dame has given up at least 30 points in six straight games, a first in the school's 126-year football history.

3. Since they met in the 2012 Liberty Bowl, Tulsa has lost 18 of 23 games and Iowa State has dropped 17 of 22.

4. Memphis has won five consecutive games and is 8-3. It was 3-9 last year.

5. The FBS single-game rushing record was broken twice in the same season for the first time since 1991.

6. Wake Forest and Virginia Tech became the first team to play to a scoreless tie through four quarters since Arkansas State and Florida Atlantic in 2005. Wake won in double-overtime, 6-3.

PLAYERS WHO DIDN'T START THE GAME BUT STILL RUSHED FOR 427 YARDS

1. Samaje Perine, Oklahoma

QUOTEWORTHY

1. 'I want to score 1,000 points every single game,” said Helfrich. 'I'm a maniac that way. I want those guys to play perfectly.” - Oregon Coach Mark Helfrich

2. 'The fun's in winning games. That's the bottom line.” - soon-to-be ex-Florida Coach Will Muschamp

after his team drilled Eastern Kentucky, 52-3.

3. 'For whatever reason, we just weren't ready to play. - SMU interim coach Tom Mason.

Uh, SMU is 0-10.

4. 'We put offensive football back 100 years.” ­­- Wake Forest Coach Dave Clawson

after his team's 6-3 two-overtime win over Virginia.

5. 'I'm certain our confidence is probably not the same as it was a month ago.” - Ole Miss Coach Hugh Freeze

after the Rebels lost 30-0 to Arkansas, their third-straight SEC loss.

6. 'Boise set the bar in our conference ... and we're a long ways away.” - Wyoming Coach Craig Bohl

after the Cowboys' 63-14 loss to Boise State.

7. 'I wouldn't put anything past our kids right now, that's for sure.” - Minnesota Coach Jerry Kill

after his Gophers beat Nebraska to improve to 8-3.

BIG TEN SPORTSWRITING

1. Say this about the Big Ten West: It's put the Husker program in its place and in perspective.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are marvelously basic, efficient machines that do all the little things right again and again. They play with heart and head. They will not beat themselves. You have to beat them.

It's clear what Nebraska football must do to survive in this league. It's got to be more talented and more efficient than the other guys. -- Tom Shatel, Omaha World-Herald

2. UW was in control at halftime, but Iowa started throwing the ball against its top-ranked defense and got back into the game. But Heisman candidacies aren't constructed solely of numbers. They also consist of clutch performances, tough performances, winning performances. Gordon's fourth quarter Saturday had a touch of all three. ...

Gordon did it even though he had been rocked numerous times by Iowa's hard-hitting safeties. He did it even though his pass-catching ability supposedly was suspect. ...

It's not a Heisman season yet, and Gordon still trails Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota on most watch lists, but his performance was every bit as impressive as his record-setting game was a week earlier. -- Tom Oates, Wisconsin State Journal

3.(Jerry) Kill preached patience after inheriting a mess from Tim Brewster. Kill told university administrators that a turnaround won't happen overnight. Might take seven, eight years, he said.

The Gophers still have areas in need of growth and improvement, but they sit here with a chance to win a Big Ten championship in Year 4 of Kill's regime.

'It's gone a lot faster than I certainly would think,” he said.

The Gophers are 9-4 in their past 13 Big Ten games. They have won five conference games in a season for the first time since 2003.

They won at Michigan and at Nebraska this season. They treated Iowa like a chew toy. They made Ohio State work until the final minute to secure a win.

Say what you will about the state of the Big Ten these days, but that doesn't diminish the strides the Gophers program has made under Kill.

They are trending the right way. They have become a legitimate program that can compete with the big boys. -- Chip Scoggins, Minneapolis Star Tribune