‘I’ve got it,’ somebody probably said in a Ruth’s Chris Steak House meeting somewhere, ‘the perfect idea.’

The plan was simple. With the University of Michigan playing Rutgers this weekend, the local Ann Arbor Ruth’s Chris Steak House cooked-up an exciting promotion: From the Sunday following the game to the next Thursday, the Ann Arbor restaurant would offer a one percent discount for every one point Michigan beat Rutgers by. So, if Michigan won by 20 points, for example, people would get 20 percent of their meals.

Solid idea right? Yea! Go Michigan!

But then this happened…

Our advanced calculations find that customers of Ruth’s Chris Steak House would’ve been owed a 78 percent discount on their food for the next five days, which forced the restaurant to make a small clarification: The discount would be capped at 50 percent.

Not as good as 78 percent, granted, but even still: 50 percent off for the next five days? Thanks, Jim Harbaugh.