Schedule a historical bottom feeder P4 non conference opponent, pound your chest about your conference’s record against the P4, schedule 4 non conference games to inflate everyone’s record by 1 win, allowing very average teams to sneak into the top 25, brag about how deep your conference is, get your *** kicked in bowl games when you get matched up with even opponents, dismiss it as “bowl games don’t matter and all our starters sat out.”
Rinse and repeat. That’s been the strategy for over 20 years now… They actually were the best for a long time, but the gap was never as big as they made it out to be. Their depth was never as good as they claimed.
They will be in for a rude awakening without that 4th non con game inflating the records of their mid and low tier teams.