A disclaimer, first: Like many of you, I’ve watched enough Gophers football and Vikings football this year to know the relative eye test winner between the two is clearly the purple. So what follows is not an attempt to argue otherwise. But it is an exercise in perceptions at an interesting point in both the Gophers’ and Vikings’ seasons. Records: Vikings are 5-1, Gophers are 5-2. Scheduling break: The Vikings’ crossover games against AFC opponents are against the South, easily the worst division in that conference.