The P5 schools should be required to play at least 3 games against mid majors each season. That would give the mids chances at improving their record against "better" conference teams. To solely judge based off the stats is misleading because schools like OU have to play a so-called tougher schedule just because they are in a bigger conference.
OU non conference: Omaha, Ball St, Arkansas, Portland, Oregon, North Texas, UTSA, USC, Wichita St, Northwestern St, and Northwestern.
I see a MAC, WCC, 2 CUSA, and an AAC team there. 5-0 record against them of course.
Texas non-Conference: Northwestern St, New Hampshire, Lipscomb, Butler, Duke, Gonzaga, Florida A&M, VCU, Michigan, LaTech, Tennessee St, Alabama.
1 WCC, A-10, CUSA. 2-1 record and only 1 of those games was in Austin.
Syracuse non-conference: Cornell, Iona, Texas Southern, Oakland, Toledo, Maryland, Kansas, UConn, Colgate, Georgetown, Buffalo, St Bonaventure, Eastern Michigan.
1 Ivy, MAAC, 3 MAC, AAC, A-10. 6-1 vs those teams.
Alabama non-conference: Memphis, Lipscomb, Alabama A&M, UT-Arlington, BYU, Minnesota, Louisiana Tech, UCF, Rhode Island, Arizona, Mercer, Texas.
2 AAC, Sun Belt, WCC, CUSA, A-10. 5-1 vs those teams.
Arizona St non-conference: Idaho St, San Diego St, Northern Arizona, UC-Irvine, Kansas St, Xavier, San Francisco, St John's, Kansas, Vandy, Longwood, and Pacific.
MWC, 2 Big West, WCC. 4-0 vs them.
They're already playing mid-majors and beating them up. Go through CUSA teams schedules and see who they beat. The mid-major teams do not beat anybody and the ones that do, blow it later against bad teams. The P6 have enough good wins to cover a bad loss or two.
If Coach Terry is going to have the same scheduling philosophy as Floyd, we will never get an at-large bid. UTEP needs to play road games against anybody. No team is afraid of playing UTEP. NMSU played at Duke a few years ago and Kentucky would have played us if not for Floyds stupid "rule".
Playing home games vs Incarnate Word do not help anyone anymore.