Ratings were down for the College Football Playoff games this season compared to last. So much so that Business Insider estimates that ESPN owes $20 million combined to advertisers.

Former Ohio State linebacker Darron Lee playfully -- we think -- put part of the blame on quarterback Connor Cook and Michigan State:

You see what you did bro? Smh @Connor_Cook03 https://t.co/W0C2citYTR — Darron Lee (@DLeeMG8) January 9, 2016



Lee was referring to this tweet:

#ESPN might have to give away $20 million in free ads due to horrible #CollegeFootballPlayoff - Business Insider https://t.co/yQzg6sIxTn — IdaFlo (@IdaFlo) January 8, 2016



Cook quickly responded to Lee's post:

[blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"][p lang="en" dir="ltr"]@DLeeMG8 IF u would have beaten us, u might have had a say in it! But ya didn't