Michigan Leads Contenders for CFP Championship Amid Controversy

Michigan's Upcoming Games Could Determine National Title Chances

Michigan leads contenders who could break South's grip on CFP championship, with the team's hearing to temporarily overturn the Big Ten's regular-season suspension for a sign-stealing scandal coming less than 24 hours prior to kickoff on 'Big Noon Saturday'.
Michigan's game against Maryland has the potential to insert a new kind of sideshow into the mix, with the entire episode mattering that much more to Michigan because it knows what's at stake.
Michigan is fully capable of delivering the school's first national title since 1997, but the results over the coming weeks will determine whether the legal fight will be worth it.
Michigan's Big Noon Saturday test will serve as an opportunity to get any kinks out of an attack that will soon welcome an equal CFP challenger to the Big House seven days later.
Out West, Washington has won six straight games with a final margin of 10 or fewer points and needed a second-half comeback in nearly all of them.