Former Pac-12 Quarterbacks ‘Transforming’ The Big Ten? Klatt, Cowherd Weigh In

As the Big Ten enters the play with different nationalist champion – this time, the Indiana Hoosiers – the Big Ten vs. SEC statement has lone heightened.

Since the Big Ten has won three-straight nationalist titles, the continuous debates implicit which league is superior continues, particularly with FOX Sports' Joel Klatt's preseason Top 25. Klatt placed 3 teams successful the apical 5 – No. 1 Oregon, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 5 Indiana – with his archetypal SEC squad coming successful astatine No. 6 with the Georgia Bulldogs. But what has made a league similar the Big Ten much ascendant than the SEC? The violative talent. 

For Cowherd, the 4 erstwhile Pac-12 teams benefited the Big Ten, emphasizing that the contention levels person soared with the backmost play and coaching. 

"The prime of violative coaching and backmost play retired West has ever been great. You've present added that to the Big Ten. And so, yes, the Big Ten was amended than the Pac-12," Cowherd said connected Tuesday's variation of The Herd. "Jayden Maiava, Lincoln Riley, Jedd Fisch, [Demond] Williams Jr., Oregon, Dante Moore, Nico Iamaleava, ace talented kid. Basically, the Pac-12 gave the Big Ten a small flair and creativity."

Three of the 4 erstwhile Pac-12 teams recovered their mode into Klatt's preseason apical 15: Oregon astatine No. 1, USC astatine No. 12 and Washington astatine No. 20. However, UCLA's caller caput manager successful Bob Chesney and different twelvemonth of backmost Nico Iamaleava could marque the Bruins a beardown competitor. 

Signal-callers similar USC's Jayden Maiava, Oregon's Dante Moore and Washington's Demond Williams Jr. person already laid the instauration of past season's performance. Moore led the Ducks to a CFP semifinal appearance, and Maiava led the Big Ten successful passing yards with 3,711. Going up against existent Big Ten teams similar Ohio State and Indiana, the league is filled with elite backmost talent.

For Klatt, the coaching endowment deserves conscionable arsenic overmuch recognition arsenic the backmost himself.

"I deliberation that it's transforming the league. It's not conscionable Dante Moore successful Oregon. It's not conscionable Maiava astatine USC. You mentioned Iamaleava astatine UCLA. It's besides Demond Williams astatine Washington with Jedd Fisch, an offensive-oriented guy," Klatt said connected The Herd. "So each of these teams travel in, and they tin play offense, and it makes it hard to spell retired westbound and play these teams, successful peculiar connected the agelong roadworthy trip. It's a precise heavy league. There's nary doubt."