How scoring works

Each season gets a score out of 100:

Improvement = this season's score minus last season's. A change smaller than ± counts as Held.

Hockey uses points percentage (points ÷ 2 per game). Soccer uses points ÷ 3 per game. Playoff depth counts the furthest round reached, so a first-round bye earns credit for that round.

College teams are men's programs. Basketball and hockey count only the NCAA tournament, not conference tournaments, the NIT or the College Basketball Crown. Hockey ties count as half a win. For FBS football the bowl game is the postseason: a bowl game is round 1, a bowl win is round 2, a College Football Playoff berth is round 3, reaching the title game is round 4, and winning it is a title.

Each team's history chart shows up to its last 10 completed seasons, scored the same way. The dashed line marks the team's best season ever, labeled with its score and year. Hover or long-press a bar for that season's record and result. 2019–20 college tournaments were cancelled for COVID, so those seasons score on record only.

Projections. For a season in progress, the projected score uses the same formula with projected inputs. Record: a published projected record when one exists; otherwise the current record blended with last season's (pulled halfway to .500), weighted by how much of the season is left. Berth: 20 × the published playoff odds. Depth: the playoff odds × the round the team would reach in a "chalk" bracket where the better seed always wins, stopping at the final (a #1 seed is projected to reach the championship, not win it). When a source publishes round-by-round odds, those are used instead. Teams without published odds show no projection rather than a guess. Switch Rank by to Projected to rank teams by projected change.

Followed teams use the same scoring. Use Minnesota, Followed or Everyone to switch between the Minnesota list, the followed list, and one combined ranking. Their "best" line shows the best season in their history chart, not an all-time best.

The black tick on each score bar marks the team's best season ever under these rules. Gophers Football's best is from the bowl era; the 1934 team went 8-0 and was named national champion, but poll titles have no playoff to score. Twins history starts in 1961 (Washington Senators seasons excluded). St. Thomas counts Division I seasons only (since 2021–22).