No one in the Glass Bowl that Thursday night in August for the 2017 season opener could have known it.
Not the 22,104 spectators, not the Toledo football team, and certainly not the 56-year-old rookie Division I head coach on the other sideline.
But they witnessed what would age into an interesting bit of trivia.
In the meteoric career of Indiana’s Curt Cignetti, what was his most lopsided loss?
What was the flip side of the beatdown his Hoosiers just handed Alabama in the Rose Bowl and delivered every other week in the Big Ten?