Colin Cowherd is picking the Jaguars to secure AFC’s No. 1 seed

Hopes are high for the Jacksonville Jaguars, but few in the national media are more on board the hype train than Colin Cowherd.

The host of Fox Sports’ The Herd said Friday on his show that it’ll be the Jaguars that finish the regular season with the best record in the highly competitive AFC.

Not Kansas City. Not Cincinnati. Not Buffalo…

“The Jags are going to be the No.1 seed in the AFC.” — @ColinCowherd pic.twitter.com/CpDzYuEBco

— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) May 12, 2023

“The Jacksonville Jaguars got a schedule break,” Cowherd said. “So they only face four elite quarterbacks and we knew this. Three at home, and one in a neutral field but they got them all spaced out.

“They face [Patrick] Mahomes at home, Week 2. And they don’t have to face Josh Allen until October, Week 5. Then they don’t have to face [Joe] Burrow at home, Week 12. And then later it’s at home again. They get Lamar Jackson. It all got spaced out. In the other 13 games, they have a decided quarterback advantage.”

Cowherd argued that there are plenty of parallels between the 2023 Jaguars and the 2022 Philadelphia Eagles, who finished the year 14-3 and earned a trip to Super Bowl LVII.

The Jaguars have finished with the best record in their conference just once in franchise history, topping the entire NFL in 1999 with a 14-2 record before losing in the AFC Championship.