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Minnesota beats Michigan 20-14 behind a dominant defense for a rare lift of the Little Brown Jug · Best of: Features

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  Minnesota beats Michigan 2014 behind a dominant defense for a rare lift
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  of the little brown jug. Written by Dave Campbell This article is
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  being read by an automated voice generated by Everlett. Minneapolis, the AP.
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  Drake Lindsay threw the go ahead touchdown pass to Darius Taylor early
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  in the fourth quarter after two costly first half interceptions, and Minnesota's
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  defense overwhelmed quarterback Bryce Underwood to beat Michigan twenty fourteen on Saturday
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  for the first time since twenty fourteen. Aidan West and Zack Harden
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  set up scores with interceptions in
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  the second half to help the Gophers four one two zero Big
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  Ten hoist the little brown jug trophy in front of their home
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  crowd for the first time in forty nine years, and revel in
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  the swarm of fans on the field afterward. The Wolverines, three two
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  zero two, had won thirty-five of their last thirty-eight games in the
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  one three four year old series, since the number one team in
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  the Associated Prep poll on october twenty second, nineteen seventy seven, lost
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  sixteen zero at Memorial Stadium. Underwood went just ten for twenty one
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  for one hundred and one yards, and ran ten times for twenty
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  yards for the Wolverines, three two, zero two, who have failed to
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  reach the twenty point mark in four of their five games under
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  new coach Kyle Whittingham. One of Michigan's touchdowns came on a seventy
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  nine yard interception, returned by Minnesota native Nathaniel Staling, a North Dakota
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  state transfer, to give the Wolverines a fourteen seven lead with two
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  forty eight left before halftime. The pressure generated by Wolverine's linebacker was
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  by far their best asset. Smith Snowden picked off Lindsay's off balance
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  heave with Troy Bowles in his face in the first quarter, giving
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  Michigan the ball at the Minnesota thirty four to set up a
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  touchdown run by Jordan Marshall. The start time was eleven hours earlier
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  for the gophers in their body clocks than last week, when they
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  won twenty-seven twenty-four at Washington for their first road win since November
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  twenty-ninth, twenty twenty four at Wisconsin. Fox sent its big noon kickoff
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  pregame show for The first time to Minnesota, where Huntington Bank Stadium
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  was striped out with fans wearing maroon and gold alternating by section.
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  Gopher's coach PJ Fleck Crowd surfed from the studio stage into a
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  sea of students in front of the hockey arena across the street.
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  Michigan's late collapse in a twenty nineteen loss to Iowa last week
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  took some luster off this nationally televised matchup, which now occurs only
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  two or three times in every five year cycle in The Big
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  Ten schedule format for the recently expanded eighteen team league. The Takeaway
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  MIGAN. The Wolverines had just twenty four plays for eighty two yards
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  in the second half, with Underwood's fourth and five throw from midfield
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  with thirty seven seconds left that sailed out of bounds, marking a
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  fitting end to a frustrating afternoon. Special teams weren't exempt from the
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  blame either. Andrew Marsh muffed a punt return, and the Gophers recovered
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  at the seventeen, to set up the first of two short field
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  goals. Minnesota. The Gophers are unbeaten in Big Ten play by winning
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  on the margins. Luke Drezoiki, a transfer from New Mexico, has not
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  missed a field goal or an extra point. The Gophers had only
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  one penalty for five yards. Up next. Minnesota plays at Purdue on
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  October tenth. Michigan has next week off and hosts Penn State on
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  october seventeenth. Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here. Visit the
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  Top 25 here and see the AP's full college football coverage here.