Baker Mayfield, who planted an Oklahoma flag at Ohio State in 2017, offered his thoughts on the college football flag planting on Saturday:

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After triggering several melees over rivalry weekend, flag-planting has become a hot-button issue for conference commissioners — “If you want to plant a flag, you play ‘capture the flag’ or you join the military or you fly to the moon.

For college sports leaders, the focus after a emotional final weekend is on how to stop the extracurriculars from happening again.

Flag planting on the field was a controversial topic, to say the least, in college football over the weekend as multiple rivalry games ended with intense moments on the field between opponents. Arguably the most notable incident from this weekend is when Michigan planted its flag on Ohio State's logo after upsetting the Buckeyes 13–10 on the road.

Yahoo Sports national columnist Dan Wetzel and senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger join Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde to react to multiple flag-planting incidents this past weekend and possible solutions.

Ohio State and Michigan, one of the sport’s most heated rivalries, started the day’s chaos when a fight broke out after the Wolverines upset the No. 2 Buckeyes. A group of Michigan players attempted to plant a UM flag at midfield at Ohio Stadium. The fight got so heated that multiple law enforcement agencies had to step in and break it up.