Yes, a Michigan player tried to plant a Michigan flag after the game. Buckeye players took exception to this action, and a brawl ensued.
There are videos posted, but I haven’t found a really good one.
This video seems to capture it all pretty well.
Next year outta be Great!
I’m just happy that the college playoff championship has been expanded to twelve teams. Now those teams that will be left out have no reason to complain 
Trojans played The Irish pretty tough. If they hadn’t have scored so often, we might have beat them! 
The Ducks beat up the Huskies the way a #1 ranked team should.
The ‘Big 4’ conference championships are set. Odds according to DraftKings:
Big 12: Arizona State vs Iowa State (-1)
SEC: Georgia vs Texas (-1.5)
Big 10: Penn State vs Oregon (-3.5)
ACC: SMU vs Clemson (-1.5)
Looking forward to a first round playoff game where a Deep South school travels to snowy Columbus or State College, Pa.
The lines, they are a changing:
Big 12: Iowa State vs Arizona State (-2.5)
SEC: Georgia vs Texas (-2.5)
Big 10: Penn State vs Oregon (-3.5)
ACC: Clemson vs SMU (-2.5)
This has happened since I last posted five hours ago.
I wish NCAA would do away with the whole conference championship thing and just seed all 1-12 teams in the playoff according to outright AP ranking.
Agree, that will settle everything! No complaints from any head coaches, governors, media talking g heads. Peace at last.
I think that’s a terrible idea.
The NCAA isn’t the ones running the CFP, and the conferences aren’t about to let it do it, if for no other reason than they see what it does with the basketball tournament TV money and would rather control the football playoff money themselves.
The NCAA certainly wouldn’t use AP ranking, any more than it does in the basketball, or any other, tournament. It would have its own committee, very similar to the CFP committee that does the rankings now. One change that the CFP might consider after this season is to not give the conference champions the byes, but give the byes to the top four ranked teams.
When the Conference becomes the Joke, the Championship game is the Punchline.
New AP and Coaches Poll rankings are out. 3-loss Alabama is #11 in both polls, and 3-loss South Carolina is #12 in the Coaches poll. The Big 12 has only Arizona State at #12 in the AP, and they are #13 in the Coaches. Iowa State is #16 in both polls. From the ACC, SMU is #8 and #7, while Clemson is #18 and #17.
It will be interesting to see if the winner of the B12 title game gets into the playoffs, and, if Clemson beats SMU in the ACC, will the ACC get two teams in the top 12?
The Big 10 has 4 teams in the Top 12, while the SEC has 4 or 5, depending on which poll you are viewing.
A P5 conference champion not making the playoffs would be a joke, especially if 3+ 3-loss SEC teams get in.
Had it been BYU or Colorado, there might have been an argument to make, but ASU or ISU are virtually guaranteed a spot.
The Big Ten has issued $100,000 fines to each school, but apparently will not suspend any of the players.
As the fight happened after the game ended, the NCAA’s “ejection, and suspension for the first half of the next game” rule does not apply.
And another in my “I post this to pretty much every other college football site I am part of, so I might as well post it here” series:
I have a feeling that when the NCAA Football Rules Committee meets, probably around March 1, it will have three items ready for discussion:
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After the game has ended, but before the officials’ jurisdiction ends, players in uniform shall not fight.
The officials’ jurisdiction for purposes of ejecting players for fighting lasts until the officials leave the confines of the playing field. (This is how it works in baseball and basketball.) -
It shall be an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against the home team to display any sort of distracting video on a screen located behind an end zone for purposes of distracting the opponent - for example, just before a field goal or extra point kick attempt.
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Starting with the third overtime period, each team shall begin its possession on the 10-yard line, first and goal; no field goals will be allowed, and all conversion attempts must be 2-point attempts.
I wonder if there will be any sanctions against the halftime marching bands?
Three weeks earlier, on 11/9, the Ohio State marching band (the best in the country, IMO) performed ‘A Day At the Zoo’ at halftime of the OSU/Purdue game.
The video is posted below.
At about the 1:30 mark, the band forms an elephant which marches forward, stops at the Michigan flag, then raises its front legs and stomps down on the flag.
Then later, at about the 4:30 mark, the band forms a bear, which proceeds to take a dump on the same Michigan flag.
At the end of the performance, at about the 9:20 mark, the band forms the words ‘BEAT BLUE’ and concludes its performance.
It’s excellent choreography, but I’m guessing that the Michigan staff made sure the players watched the video.
Note that that video is set to the time right after the elephant stomps. Either remove the &t=xxx in the url or manually reset the time at the bottom of the video.
I do wonder exactly what negative they meant for Oregon. They formed a monkey or ape and had it carrying an Oregon flag while standing on a tree stump. Not exactly the most negative thing they could have done.
That is a banana, not an Oregon flag. Didn’t have anything to do with Oregon.