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This claim is patently incorrect.

Let's look at State's regular season out-of-conference foes since 2009, Dan Mullen's first season in Starkville. I'll highlight the P5 or major independent teams (Notre Dame, BYU, Army, etc.).
2009 - Jackson State, Georgia Tech, Houston, Middle Tennessee State
2010 - Memphis, Alcorn State, Houston, UAB
2011 - Memphis, Louisiana Tech, UAB, Tennessee-Martin
2012 - Jackson State, Troy, South Alabama, Middle Tennessee State
2013 - Oklahoma State, Alcorn State, Troy, Bowling Green
2014 - Southern Miss, UAB, South Alabama, Tennessee-Martin
2015 - Southern Miss, Northwestern State, Troy, Louisiana Tech
2016 - South Alabama, UMass, BYU, Samford
2017 - Charleston Southern, Louisiana Tech, BYU, UMass
2018 - Stephen F. Austin, Kansas State, UL-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech
2019 - UL-Lafayette, Southern Miss, Kansas State, Abilene Christian

Just 5/44 of State's regular season, out-of-conference games since 2009 have come against Power 5 teams or BYU. On the other hand, State has played Sun Belt or Conference USA teams 24/44 times (more than 50% of the time).

In conclusion,

In conclusion, you're ignorant or just plain dumb. Everybody plays weak OOC games and have for years. We play in the SEC West and have played Alabama more than anyone else, along with other top 10 football powers, every year. I'll trade our schedule for anyone else's outside the SEC West on any year.