ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit has received a lot of criticism over the past few days because of his remarks about the College Football Playoff. On the bright side, he at least won Stephen A. Smith over with his argument.

Hindsight is very easy when you have a result to make your case, as ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit did on College GameDay to decry Indiana’s playoff placement over what he feels are better teams with more losses.

The truth of the matter is that Indiana had the smallest margin of defeat of any team in the first round, but since they're the only loser without direct ties to ESPN — Tennessee (SEC), Clemson ( ACC) and SMU (ACC) all have connections to the network — it was the Hoosiers who got singled out.

ESPN's coverage of the first round of the College Football Playoff was embarrassing. Several key fixtures in the sport were nothing more than shills for the SEC

ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit unloaded on the College Football Playoff committee for thinking Indiana was one of the 12 best

The knives are out for the Indiana Hoosiers in certain circles after their underwhelming performance in the College Football Playoff opener. ESPN's Kirk

Kirk Herbstreit continued his crusade to fine-tune the College Football Playoff selection process. Last year, Herbstreit made a lot of enemies in Tallahassee when supporting the CFP committee's decision to exclude the undefeated Florida State Seminoles in favor of Alabama.

Kirk Herbstreit caused some controversy during the first weekend of the College Football Playoff. All four first-round games resulted in double-digit wins. Following Notre Dame's dominant win over Indiana,