The Michigan football team just won their third straight Big Ten title on Saturday and they are now ranked #1 in the country. The Wolverines will be playing in their third straight College Football Playoff this season as they will take on Alabama football in the Rose Bowl. This team is very good, but not everybody like them. In fact, most people outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan seem to dislike the Wolverines. One of those people is ESPN's Paul Finebaum.

Paul Finebaum covers college football for ESPN, specially SEC football, and he has never had too many kind things to say about Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan football program. Now, the Wolverines are under investigation by the NCAA for alleged illegal sign-stealing, and Finebaum's criticism of Michigan has been louder than ever since that started. Many of his ESPN co-workers have had similar stances, but one that doesn't is former Michigan star and Heisman winner Desmond Howard.

“Paul Finebaum is a caricature of a caricature of Paul Finebaum,” Desmond Howard recently said during an appearance on The Rich Eisen Show. “That’s what he is right now. You can’t take anything he says seriously. You just can’t. It’s like they march him out there, they pull the string in his back, and he just starts spewing negative things about Michigan. When a person does that repeatedly, and you just know his shtick, you can’t take him seriously. You take him for what he is. And that’s how I look at Paul Finebaum.”

Howard did not hold back when talking about Finebaum. This is very interesting to see as both Howard and Finebaum work together, and they often appear on the same shows together. This doesn't come as a big surprise, however, given Howard's ties to Michigan. The two of them also recently discussed the Michigan investigation on ESPN together, and they clearly disagreed on the matter.

Going forward, it's going to be interesting see if Finebaum claps back at Howard with some comments of his own. Based on what we've seen from Finebaum in the past, it wouldn't be surprising at all if he does. It will also be interesting to see if ESPN does anything about it.

Finebaum hasn't had much to say about Michigan since the Wolverines took down Ohio State a couple weeks ago. He will certainly be cheering for Alabama to take them down in the Rose Bowl, but if Michigan defeats the Crimson Tide, all Wolverines will want to tune into ESPN the next time Finebaum appears.