INDIANAPOLIS — The College Football Playoff rankings show Tuesday night was a nothingburger—the top seven teams from last week remain the top seven teams this week, Ho hum. Move along.
Until ESPN lead analyst Kirk Herbstreit tossed a maize-and-blue Molotov cocktail into the mix.
“I still think,” Herbstreit volunteered, "Michigan waves the white flag and doesn't play Ohio State next week.”
That was a jaw-dropper of an assertion—that a team would use a COVID-19 excuse to avoid playing its biggest rival, while simultaneously knocking said hated rival out of eligibility for the Big Ten championship game.