Is CFN Gaining Legitimacy?

Given, it's the Free Press, but this is perhaps the first time I've seen any newspaper, let alone a major market daily give any cred to College Football News.

Here is the Freep, where real journalists probably work, piggy-backing on the hard work of the CFN team and touting this analysis as number crunching of some estimable importance. It must be so good in fact that it obviated the need for the Freep to do any calculation of its own, because who could aspire to better? (The Wall Street Journal maybe?)

All that aside, is this a mark of credibility for CFN? Yes. They are doing some things right. Their calculation seems rationally and painstakingly thought out. I buy their justification. But is it newsworthy for more than the OCD college football fans that patrol CFN? And does one of those fans also cover the Wolverines for the Freep?

All credit due to CFN, I think this is more likely just a lazy effort to provide (old) morale-boosting content for Michigan fans whose preseason ranking outside of the top 10 in either poll is the first since 1997.