For Jerry Kill, it was a 58-0 loss at Michigan in his first season at Minnesota.
For P.J. Fleck, it appears to be a 39-0 loss at Northwestern in his first season, with a regular season finale against Wisconsin at home looming next week.
You hope there are better days ahead, but that doesn’t make a humiliating loss like the one the Gophers suffered on Saturday any easier to stomach. It was the program’s worst loss since that beatdown courtesy of the Wolverines on Oct. 1, 2011. And that was the first year of the post-Tim Brewster era.