>>22926Every time you see a pushover on (say) Oklahoma's schedule, remember that schools like Utah, Fresno State, or Boise State were pounding on their doors, pleading "we'll come there and play and you can keep ALL the money, we don't care, just schedule us."
And Oklahoma just said, "ha ha, no thanks, we'll just pay Middle Tennessee State $200,000 to come here and get blown out."
That's because one loss for a big-time school from a big-time conference can mean the difference between a multi-million dollar BCS bowl payout, or accepting less than $500k froma lesser bowl. Whenever you have a question about why college football does strange things, just follow the money.