if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. Listening to the media, including BITB, for intelligent takes on college football is a lost cause.
What was Cowherd's reasoning? QB play. He basically said the SEC and Pac-12 has the best QBs this year so they have the best teams. Nevermind that Matt Barkley, considered the best QB, lost to a Stanford team and another QB who has zero experience.
It is because college games are won on the LOS. The media will never, ever understand this about college football. It is not the NFL.