Fox Sports color commentator Joel Klatt still believes in Sherrone Moore's Michigan Wolverines to make a run toward the College Football Playoff as the regular season winds down.
Upon reviewing several College Football Playoff resumes, Klatt said on a recent edition of his podcast, "The Joel Klatt Show," to not count out the Wolverines should they win out the rest of the way.
"If, for some reason, Michigan does beat Ohio State and they're 10-2, then you can start to look at their resume and their eye test a lot differently than you would Texas," Klatt said. "Because Michigan would be coming off six straight wins, they would have beaten the clear No. 1 team in the country by the committee standards—and you look up, and you're like 'that's the best win in the country. And they would absolutely be on the bubble line."
With this scenario in mind, Klatt added how this scenario could hurt the Texas Longhorns in the long run.
"You see, I don't even know if you can get Texas to the bubble line even with a win over Texas A&M. Maybe you can, certainly they would pass Vandy and who knows," Klatt said. "But in the event Michigan wins, they win an argument over a 10-2 Miami, they win an argument over a 10-2 Notre Dame. At this point, they've got a game—and I've made the argument in the past that the committee and people in college football have been talking for a long time about, and specifically this year, about this idea that they don't want to penalize teams for scheduling hard non-conference games."
Klatt says the Wolverines have "the best win in the country" should they beat Ohio State; as such, the Longhorns, or other contenders, should not be viewed with a different criterion.
"So, I firmly believe that they would view Michigan more as like a 10.5-1.5 team rather than a 10-2 team," Klatt said. "Which is kind of what they're doing for Texas because one of their losses in on the road at Ohio State. So if you're going to do that, then you'd have to apply the same logic to Michigan, who went to Oklahoma and lost what was a good football game to John Mateer who was playing his best ball."
Based on how things play out, one aspect is abundantly clear: chaos across college football is about to assemble, and fans better buckle up for it.