I explicitly said it may not have been.
As for the general argument about P5 depth, a team like ASU can suffer when it loses an elite player without undermining the argument about P5 depth. How would Fresno St. have fared had it lost its best player? Maybe worse. Maybe not. I don’t know.
But it’s funny how quickly many on CB latch on to anything negative about the P12 and push back against anything that *might* be perceived as a defense of the P12. So much hate.