There are always a select group of non-conference games that make week 1-5 worth watching. Unfortunately, that group is getting smaller by the year, and decreasing even faster than the number of black head coaches.
It seems that the BCS ensures that top-tier teams don't want or need to play tough opponents. With the "what have you done for me down the stretch" attitude of voters the only thing important about the three or four games before the conference schedule is making damn sure you have three of four wins.
Consider:
Currently there are 119 teams in the Bowl Subdivision, and no matter how big your conference is you still have over 100 teams to choose from for your non-conference schedule. One frieken hundred. No matter, teams in the FBS are still finding a way to play smaller schools. Next year 75% of BCS conference teams will play a FCS school.
The Pac-10 once agains earns praise from this blog for being the only conference that has more teams not playing a FCS school than teams that do. In fact, they look to have the toughest non-conference schedule for any conference as a whole.
The ACC and SEC have ten teams playing FCS schools each, but the SEC does not have the honor of having three teams that will face two FCS schools. Congratulations to the state of North Carolina: Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State all refuse to schedule real games.
On the positive side no BCS team has schedules three FCS games yet. And Michigan will face Delaware state, looking forward to that one. Although if they played Deleware the teams helments would have been virtually the same, talent level too.
Coming Soon the Best OOC games that we actually will look forward too!
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