College Football · Week 1 · Aug 31–Sep 6
Minnesota
W 59-7 vs Eastern Illinois · Thu, Sep 3 · 1-0 overall
Misery Index · Content
A 52-point win, and the room still spent it bracing for a torn ACL and griping about Fleck's timeouts.
Limited dataabout 267 Minnesota fan comments in the r/CFB game thread.
What happened
Minnesota opened with a 59-7 dismantling of Eastern Illinois, which should have been a pleasant evening and instead became an exercise in waiting for the other shoe. The turning point was not a play but a substitution pattern: starters still out there, margin already absurd, and a fanbase doing injury math. One fan admitted to "having flashbacks of autman-bell tearing his acl in a shutout against colorado." Another logged the "government mandated early timeout by Fleck." Sitting at 1-0, the Gophers won by 52 and the misery index read 47. That tracks.
What fans said
“Government mandated early timeout by Fleck”
u/AKman2002▲ 10frustration
“PJ’s gonna let them spam that one play over and over huh”
u/InspectahFun▲ 10frustration
“I’m having flashbacks of autman-bell tearing his acl in a shutout against colorado”
u/mojominn▲ 8despair
“Tracy just abusing the dumb S/T AI smh.”
u/Carnage7771▲ 7frustration
“three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and pj wasting an early timeout”
u/mojominn▲ 6sarcasm
“Come on Thomas. Gotta hold on to the ball.”
u/Contren▲ 5frustration
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