Colorado, Michigan receive criticism for insensitive social media posts while Helene wreaks havoc on the Southeast

It's been a tough 24 hours for the region of the United States where college football is most popular – the Southeast. Hurricane Helene devastated the Gulf Coast with extraordinary force Thursday evening, causing catastrophic (and in some cases deadly) rainfall across the region.

With that mindset, two teams from unaffected regions — Colorado and Michigan — could have checked the Weather Channel before posting to their social channels Friday afternoon.

The No. 12 Wolverines, who are scheduled to play Minnesota in the Little Brown Jug on Saturday in rainy weather, tweeted a model of a player standing in ankle-deep water.

“Looks good in any weather,” said the quickly deleted post from On3’s Grant Grubbs.

The Buffaloes were arguably even more suspect and remain up there as of press time. It shows running back Dallan Hayden standing knee-deep in water with a partially submerged “Beware of Sharks” sign in the background; Colorado is scheduled to play UCF in Orlando on Saturday.

The show's responses were flooded with criticism, including from fans of rival Florida teams.

These are hardly earth-shattering posts, as the age-old social media saying goes: Nobody ever got into trouble not tweet.