Connor Cook (18) and Michigan State are one of the FBS’ most highly regarded teams partly thanks to their Week 2 win vs. Oregon.(Photo: Mike Carter, USA TODAY Sports) If the College Football Playoff field were to be decided today, Michigan State, not Ohio State, would be the top seed, according to the Football Four Playoff Projection panel. The 13-member panel made up of coaches, athletic directors, USA TODAY Sports experts and other dignitaries that is based on the Playoff selection committee’s model put the Spartans on the top seed line in this week’s initial projection for the 2015 season, with Ohio State the 2 seed, Mississippi the 3 seed and TCU the 4 seed. “Where’s their weak link?” panelist Jim Ross said of the Spartans. “This week they’re best team in the Big Ten.” The debut projection gives three Power Five conferences a berth in the playoff, with the ACC and Pac-12 left out. The Playoff Projection is in its third year. In addition to Ross, the WWE Hall of Fame announcer, this year’s panel includes former FBS coaches Tommy Bowden, Rich Brooks and Jim Grobe, former FBS athletic directors Bill Byrne and Jim Livengood, Michigan State men’s basketball coach and football aficionado Tom Izzo and USA TODAY Sports college sports staff members Nicole Auerbach, Paul Myerberg, George Schroeder, Eddie Timanus, Daniel Uthman and Dan Wolken. Follow the road to the 2015 College Football Playoff at The Football Four, our home to rate and debate the nation’s best. Each panelist enters a four-team ballot, with four points awarded for a No. 1 vote, three for a No. 2, two for a No…
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