If the Gophers can field a championship football team by 2020, Gov. Mark Dayton wants them to feel right at home.
Dayton on Monday officially announced a bid to host the College Football Playoff championship game in the Vikings' new $1 billion stadium, scheduled to open by fall 2016 and already chosen to house the 2018 Super Bowl and the 2019 NCAA tournament Final Four.
"It's worked twice," Dayton said. "Why not go for the trifecta?"
Minnesota has tried and failed once, in 2017, to convince college football to hold what is in effect its biggest bowl game in the least likely of locales.