Has The Big Ten Overtaken The SEC as The Most Dominant College Football Conference?

Could the tide be turning soon on the SEC’s decades-long dominance in college football?

It’s a no-brainer, if you ask FOX Sports’s Colin Cowherd, who is convinced that the past two national champions — which were won by Michigan and Ohio State, respectively — are indicative of a power shift in the Big Ten’s favor.

Cowherd took a step further, stating that the Big Ten is now the premier college football conference headed into 2025.

“The best offensive player (Jeremiah Smith) in college football is a Buckeye,” he said on Monday’s edition of “The Herd.” “The best defensive player, Caleb Downs, is a Buckeye. Their recruiting, once again, was through the roof. Their NIL money is through the roof. … This is gonna be hard to stomach for a lot of people. The Big Ten is officially better than the SEC. It’s not just that Ohio State won the [national championship] last year, it’s that they humiliated Tennessee and dominated Texas. Texas scored 14 points. They’d scored over 14 points in 32 straight games in the SEC. … The year before, Alabama played Michigan when Michigan won the [national championship]. Alabama couldn’t move the ball. They barely had 100 yards passing.

“It looks a lot like it used to eight years ago when a Georgia [team] or a Bama [team] would face a Big Ten team, and the Big Ten teams couldn’t really generate consistent offense. The defenses, the athletes were just too good.”