Paul Finebaum believes Michigan has been the most impressive team in college football

Paul Finebaum evaluated all of college football to this point of the season and Michigan was his most impressive team through two thirds of the year.

Michigan improved to 8-0 on the campaign with a 49-0 win over Michigan State in East Lansing. Every week, the Wolverines seemingly pull away and their opponents are left stunned.

Finebaum wouldn’t quite put Michigan over Georgia in rankings right now, but it’s hard to argue Michigan shouldn’t be in the conversation.

“Yeah, you certainly can make that argument,” Finebaum said on The Matt Barrie Show. “I’m kind of stuck on Georgia because I don’t think they really did anything to lose that and I think … we’ll get into the whole committee thing here in about two weeks.

“(They’ll) make the choice because it won’t be ours any longer. But I think it’s a fair argument. I mean, whether you like them or not, I don’t know many people that do and there’s fewer by the day, they are the most impressive team in the country this year.”

So let’s say Michigan is the No. 1 overall team in the College Football Playoff rankings. Is it the end all, be all by the end of the season?

Absolutely not. Could be good now, but Michigan might not stay there forever.

“And you have to start thinking with the metrics of this committee, unless they use sign stealing as a deterrent, they very well may make Michigan No. 1,” Finebaum said. “By the way, it doesn’t matter considering last year Tennessee was the No. 1 team going in and the first year was Mississippi State. The first poll is about as irrelevant as the first round leader at Augusta.”

Should Michigan be the top team in the country?

Despite Jim Harbaugh’s three-game, self-imposed suspension to start the season and now the sign stealing allegations, Michigan went right through them.

Or in Harbaugh’s words, the Wolverines are a “buzzsaw.”

“Our guys really had a single mindset of getting prepared, beating State,” Harbaugh said postgame. “Pretty much if anybody around the building wanted to talk about anything else, they didn’t want to. They wanted to just talk about the game, preparation, practice and getting ready to play and execute. And I thought they played their best.

“Got a little saying around here that says: What you do speaks so loudly we can’t even hear what you’re saying. So I thought our guys did a tremendous job of taking it one play at a time and they were a real buzzsaw. Just played really, really great football.”