MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — One by one, they disembarked the team busses oozing a newfound cool. Perhaps emboldened by their pummeling of Ohio State and their ravaging of Iowa in the Big Ten Championship, or perhaps entranced by the trappings of a week on the beach in South Florida, these Michigan football players were imbued with College Football Playoff swagger.
They were clothed in fresh white Jordan brand tracksuits designed especially for the occasion — a date with third-ranked Georgia in the Orange Bowl — and many of them debuted the types of sunglasses befitting rock stars or rappers.