COLUMBUS, Ohio — The 2020 college football season will go down as possibly the most bizarre in history. It took place during a pandemic, amid swirling political influence, and immediately before the doors were thrown open to expanded income rights for the players. It checked all the bizarro boxes. Five weeks into 2021, we have entered into a different bizarro world — at least in terms of the competitive norms we have grown accustomed to in the Midwest. ESPN’s 13-member panel of voters for its weekly College Football Playoff picks unanimously predicted either Alabama or Georgia would take the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds. No surprise there. Those teams are easily passing the eye test right now, while the rest of college football hopes for a generous grading curve. The rest of those ESPN writers’ predicted field, however, shows how turned-on-its-head the first half of the college football season…
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