This is an opinion piece by MLive.com columnist David Mayo.
Central casting should have been consulted before some of the developments regarding the College Football Playoff and major bowl bids.
Let's go straight to the local angle first, shall we?
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh not participating with Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher on the Orange Bowl teleconference was like getting Abbott without Costello. The Dec. 30 game is an attractive appetizer for the national semifinals the next day and Harbaugh's absence from the kickoff teleconference was bitterly disappointing, one might say.
Harbaugh did a different teleconference later Sunday, so there's that.