Why all the fuss about schedules? Have any of you looked at some of the big and mighty SEC teams scheds? At least NU and the B1G attempt to play games outside their immediate geographic locations. Seriously, IIRC UGA's non-con game against OkSt last season was the first game any SEC team had played east of the Mississippi in something like 18 years!
Sure everyone would love to play a high caliber opponent every week, but it's just not that simple. Especially considering that non-cons are being scheduled further and further in advance and even mid level teams want more and more cash to play BCS level schools. Sure, schedule making may sound easy to us pleebs, but this isn't NCAA FB on our PS3s. AD's don't get the luxury of building A+ rated scheds at the beginning of each season. No, in reality a team you scheduled as a marquee game can become a mediocre contest when one team or the other falls on their collective faces by the time the game is played. (Miami 2014?)
Just think, we could be fans of a team like KSU who openly admits to playing patsies exclusively. Hell they where even willing to pay off teams they'd already scheduled to avoid playing a tough opponent.... Trust me, our schedules could be much much worse.