WOW Johnny! Well I agree that ESPN is eating crow after shoving the SEC down our throats all year, and the Big 10 looks better with a national champ but the Big 10 is a very top heavy conference and will be for a few more years, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin all have to break in new coaches, Iowa sucks and Penn State is a few years away as well. Adding Rutgers and Maryland did nothing to bolster the parity either.
All that said the perceived worst of the Big 5 conferences won it all...that cannot be ignored. Good defense and a Power running game is old school and I am glad to see it win out versus all this high flying spread it out and chuck it down the field stuff.
Fundamentals and good coaching still are important to championships. That is the bigger point.