Literally this! The PAC-12 was reduced to conference cannibalization but the SEC gets told that it’s just a sign of how competitive of a conference they are. It’s literally SEC bias in real time.
Since NIL the SEC has essentially become the new PAC-12. However, where as the PAC’s cannibalization resulted in sports media telling you every PAC team must be bad, the SEC’s results in sports media concluding every SEC team must just be that good.