FOX Sports analyst Joel Klatt accuses ESPN of bias against the SEC

It's often said in many college football circles that the SEC benefits quite a bit from its partnership with ESPN and ABC, even when it comes to the way the network covers the league compared to others.

And on Sunday, FOX Sports analyst Joel Klatt objected to a specific piece from ESPN due to alleged SEC bias.

The segment in question was from ESPN David McHalewho put together a long column summarizing Saturday's events. One section of it was titled “Slow day for the top teams” and contained short blurbs about it Ohio State And Georgia Back to back.

Klatt seemed to believe that the two were not evaluated on the same basis. He took to Twitter to air his grievances.

“They don't even hide it, and if you see it and flaunt it, you're a 'SEC hater,'” he wrote. “Okay…cool story!”

This despite Ohio State claiming a convincing 35-7 win IowaComplete with a dominant second-half performance, Hale wrote that it must have felt “like a loss” for the Buckeyes.

Check out the ESPN article below:

No. 3 Ohio State: Had little trouble beating Iowa 35-7. Still, it had to feel like a loss for the Buckeyes, who have since become the first team to allow points to Iowa's offense Michigan gave up two touchdowns in a win over the Hawkeyes in Week 5 of 2022.

Then there's the Georgia segment, which goes in a similar direction but seems to excuse the Bulldogs a bit more.

As written:

No. 5 Georgia: Reacted to last week's loss Alabama with a thoroughly reasonable 31:13 win Auburn. Carson Beck was 23 of 28 passes, and Trevor Etienne scored two goals, and yet it was hardly the offensive performance that had any significant reassuring effect; this uneven start to the season is insignificant. More than anything, Georgia wore Auburn down rather than making any sort of statement. If anything, it was a bit embarrassing not to get a single one Payton Thorne Interception. Normally Auburn gives these away with the purchase of a large soft drink.

Was there some SEC bias in that part of ESPN? That's for the readers to decide. But a lot of people on Twitter seemed to think so.

The original tweet included a screenshot of the two blurbs – with the caption “ES(ec)P(in) is next level propaganda.” – had more than 440 retweets and 3,400 likes at the time of writing.