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The covenant went to surface in ground Op that wiped out countless marines, and I believe they shut down some critical component of the MAC - and if you think Master Chief stopped that, he destroyed the navigational database so the Covenant wouldn't find Earth (which ended up being futile).
As everyone else has been repeatedly saying, the ships are faster, have powerful shields (a whole longsword and a nuke from the Gettysburg couldn't take it down). And the rounds could just damage, not disable the ship, but I admit - that's not very valid:
"That round could cut clean through a Covenant Capital Ship," - Johnson, The Armory.
The slipspace technology argument I disagree with, because the Covenant can't make exact measurements, and definitely can't use it so fast they can avoid MAC gun targets.
And yes, Covenant Ships>Human Ships - in one of the books, one ship could hold off three or more human ships.
I'm sure there's more reasons, but that was just off the top of my head. Prove the first one wrong and you've got yourself some good observation.