Does college football have a flag-planting problem? 'Our approach must be aggressive. This is unacceptable.'

The Big Ten announced a $ 100,000 fine for both Michigan and Ohio State for flag-planting.

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark says conferences should "get together to vet these issues" The act of planting a flag into an opponent’s home field turf triggered many of the melees.

On-field videos of several incidents, from Chapel Hill to Clemson , showed players exchanging physical blows with other players as well as fans.

At Ohio Stadium , law enforcement authorities even deployed pepper spray in an attempt to end the altercation.

ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit , a former Ohio State quarterback, implored conference commissioners to suspend those involved.

Ohio State kicked our butt for 15 years and they planted flags. We didn’t take exception to it. Texas did it on our field earlier this year . We didn’t take exception to it.” After Avant wrestled the flag away from the Ohio State player, he marched up the Michigan tunnel and into the locker room — the flag, now somewhat infamous, secured in his possession. “As the players came back to the locker room,” he said, “I was waving the flag for them and they were going crazy over it.”.