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I think you’re proving my point by mocopdx
Scheduling LSU last year would’ve been a marquee match up. Scheduling them this year would’ve been a dud.
It’s really, really hard to properly predict a schedule’s strength 5-10 years in advance. Putting 3-4 big programs on the schedule and hoping some/all are good is the right strategy I think. I could not care less if a game or two on our schedule are crap. Everyone does it. I know the thought should be “we aren’t everyone”, but in this case we should be. Outside of a small contingent of the ND fanbase, literally no one even thinks about how we play those garbage teams.
Beat the great teams and none of that other stuff matters. The issue is that we can’t beat those great teams. The issue has nothing to do with scheduling one MAC team per year.