Minnesota's defense spent Saturday treating Bryce Underwood like a rumor it intended to stamp out. The Golden Gophers beat Michigan 20-14, their first win over the Wolverines since 2014, and they did it by overwhelming the quarterback ESPN describes as struggling.

Think about the arithmetic of that drought. Every Minnesota player who suffered through it has graduated, transferred or gone into coaching. A kid who was in grade school when the Gophers last won this game could have watched the whole losing run from the couch and then enrolled in college. The streak did not end so much as expire from old age.

Underwood is the one carrying it home. He arrived in Ann Arbor as one of the most celebrated quarterback recruits in the country, the sort of signing that gets a program's whole offseason built around it. Saturday he met a defense that did not care about his recruiting ranking. Minnesota made him the story, and not in the way Michigan's marketing department drafts it.

Now the capital. The Big Ten sold its Saturdays to Fox, CBS and NBC on the promise of programs like this one, brand names that pull a viewer in whether the team is 5-0 or 2-3. A Michigan with a quarterback who cannot find his rhythm is a more expensive problem for the league than for the Wolverines, because the networks bought the shirt, not the standings. Minnesota just showed every future opponent how to ruin the product.

For the fan in Hong Kong whose Sunday morning started with the score, a note on the elsewhere: Teoscar Hernández's dramatic home run put the Dodgers up on the Braves, which is the kind of sentence that ends a lot of arguments in October.

Minnesota waited twelve years for this. Michigan gets one week to explain it.