re: Aggie Out of Conference Schedule

Could be, I suspect its probably more direct financial reasons-- b12 went to 9 game schedule, perhaps games they were most able to drop was the games against big 5 opponents.

I've seen some people (elsewhere) argue that because b12 plays 9 conference, whereas acc b10 and sec only play 8, that a b12 team having 3 nonconference cupcakes is the same as an sec team having 3 cupcakes and 1 legit non conf. To be clear, that argument is garbage in my opinion. If I had my way FBS teams would all schedule top100 exclusively.

Schools just don't have enough to gain currently to schedule tough. They need to be pushed to it by advertisers or the committee