College football is officially here, and game week always brings the analysts out with their predictions. Everyone’s lining up with bold calls on who’s got the best players and units in the country. Freshman phenom Jeremiah Smith is already being teased as the breakout star, while Caleb Downs is drawing early love as the nation’s most dominant defensive force. And Fox’s Colin Cowherd proclaimed that one Big Ten powerhouse owns both the best backfield and the best offensive line, and in his words, “it’s not particularly close.”
So who’s Colin crowning? It’s Penn State. The same Nittany Lions that were a heartbreak pick-six away from a national title shot last season. On Joel Klatt’s show , Cowherd didn’t even blink when he said , “The best backfield in the country, and it’s not p