College football's most interesting lines, Championship Week: The MAC and Conference-USA bless us with perfect football

Well, well, well, it’s me: the guy who was extremely wrong about Michigan.

I saw a line that continued to slide to the Wolverines despite massive action for Ohio State and said “no, it is the oddsmakers who are wrong.” I saw a defense that contained Kenneth Walker III a week earlier and thought Jim Harbaugh’s bullyball runs wouldn’t work against the Buckeyes. I looked at the previous five years and defaulted to the typical result.

I was wrong. Exceptionally so.

Michigan boxed up its biggest rival’s College Football Playoff hopes and shipped them back south in a hearse. Suddenly the narrative has shifted from whether or not Jim Harbaugh would be fired to whether or not Ryan Day can win without Urban Meyer’s recruits. These are both very stupid, very extreme narratives, but those are the only takes that can survive in the hostile climate of college football.

With the exception of two games — Army-Navy and a rescheduled contest between USC and Cal that will be hate-watched by several inconsolable Oklahoma fans despite a lack of Lincoln Riley — everything from here on out is a postseason game. This weekend belongs to the conference championships. Then come the bowls. Then comes a months-long, hollowed out existence where you feel nothing but the icy wind blasting your cheeks as you wander solemnly through the bleak months, attempting to make sense of your life.

Savor championship week, is what I’m trying to say. It’s gonna be a cold winter.

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