Texas, FSU, Miami, UNC, Wake Forest...Pretty solid teams.
This is the fruit of NIL and transfer portal coming to bare. The playing field was always going to even out a bit once players could start earning money and hit what is essentially free agency.
The same 6-8 teams dominating every year wasn't good long term for the game competitively or business side of house.
I wouldn't worry about comparing ourselves to other conferences when 3 of them are on life support and may not even be around in 5 years.
1-6...these other conferences are about to be 0-12 when they lose all their teams.
Had NIL and portal/free agency come around 10 years ago, these other conferences might not be in the predicament that they are in. I mean Prime with a new roster via NIL and portal could've single handedly saved the Pac 12. They will command top billing, "prime" time slots, and big advertising dollars next year in the B12 and may actually breathe a little life into that conference.