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
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”