tremendous piece, thank you for writing
the thing that infuriates me you touch upon......that wins and losses to crap teams like Colorado are considered Q1, then games vs most of the MW and WCC qualify as Q2 on the road, The west coast conferences...pac 12, mountain west, west coast are all benefitting from this. Riding great Q2 marks playing nobodies and the top programs cleaning up agains crappy Q3 schools.
Nevada had 10 losses from the Mountain West and made the field...ten! Despite not doing anything other than splitting with the other top 4 schools in the MWC, Thats all you have to do now to get a bid...go 1-1...they didnt win any of those on the road. New Mexico at least beat San Diego State and St Marys on the road. They fell off the bubble with too much losing but they have better wins than 2 of the MWC schools that made
a complete overhaul of the net system needs to happen. Some sort of point system needs to be used. I get that the conferences beyond the power 6 have issues and might need to be judge differently. If so then do that. Put the conferences in tiers with the point system and then rank them.
on the ooc stuff, I do think RU failed miserably and has continued to be told but does not listen to schedule tougher. They do that at their own peril. Non conference stuff is being stressed so while I agree that overall schedule should matter more. I do think its an issue that RU needs to fix...more Q3s and less Q4s