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Big Ten · 2026 season

The story so far

Minnesota fans spent the season braced for the familiar Fleck letdown, and the Little Brown Jug win over Michigan briefly convinced them otherwise. Blowouts at Purdue and a heartbreaking loss at Indiana dragged them back to despair, leaving a 5-3 team and a fan base convinced nothing has changed.

From Reddit fan threads · through Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 1 · 5-3

Season misery
62Uneasy
Worst week
97Wk 6 · Oct 5–11
Best week
27Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4
Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 6: misery 38 (Content) · 1-0Wk 2 · Sep 7–13: misery 95 (Despair) · 0-1Wk 3 · Sep 14–20: misery 56 (Uneasy) · 1-0Wk 4 · Sep 21–27: misery 29 (Euphoric) · 1-0Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4: misery 27 (Euphoric) · 1-0Wk 6 · Oct 5–11: misery 97 (Despair) · 0-1Wk 8 · Oct 19–25: misery 57 (Uneasy) · 1-0Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 1: misery 97 (Despair) · 0-1Wk 0Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8Wk 9
Weekly misery, Monday to Sunday. Above the line is miserable; below is happy.

Storylines

what fans talked about, week by week
Season-long
  • From the Mississippi State loss through Indiana, fans kept calling it Fleck's ceiling, tempering even the Michigan win with road-record worries before the Purdue and Indiana defeats renewed calls for his firing.

    “Reminder that Minnesota was 7-0 at home and 0-5 away last season lol”

    ▲ 699Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 4

Kept coming up

angry / anxioushappy / hopefulsplitbigger dot = louder

  1. 97Wk 9 · Oct 26–Nov 10-1›
  2. 57Wk 8 · Oct 19–251-0›
  3. —Wk 7 · Oct 12–18
  4. 97Wk 6 · Oct 5–110-1›
  5. 27Wk 5 · Sep 28–Oct 41-0›
  6. 29Wk 4 · Sep 21–271-0›
  7. 56Wk 3 · Sep 14–201-0›
  8. 95Wk 2 · Sep 7–130-1›
  9. 38Wk 1 · Aug 31–Sep 61-0›
  10. —Wk 0 · Aug 24–30