Does college football have a flag-planting problem? ‘This is unacceptable’ WSOC TV [Video]

Less than 10 years removed from his days as an NFL receiver, Jason Avant, all 6-feet, 210 pounds of him, remains in playing shape.

On Saturday, he needed it.

As Avant walked off Ohio State’s football field after his Michigan Wolverines pulled the stunning upset, he spotted something altogether peculiar: an Ohio State player toting around a blue flag brandished with the maze-colored block M that had been ripped from its pole.

“I said, ‘Who is this jerk with the flag?’” recalls Avant, the Michigan in-game sideline reporter. “I thought ‘They shouldn’t have the flag!’ So I grabbed the flag from him.”

Immediately, Ohio State players and staff members gathered around him, Avant said, pushing and shoving, even attempting to wrestle the flag back.

“I still train seven days a week,” he said during an interview Sunday, laughing. “I knew they weren’t knocking me over.”

Amid a host of college football rivalry clashes, the Michigan-Ohio State fracas kickstarted a day full of jawing coaches, postgame punches and …