Picked the 15 teams or so to display on the cover. In doing so, they put BYU, Arizona, and Kansas on the cover instead of schools like:
Penn State
Wisconsin
Washington
USC
Tennessee
Ole Miss
LSU
Texas A&M
I’m sure you’re right, it makes more sense to put BYU/Kansas on the cover than it does to put last year’s runner up and the team with the Heisman winner.