Also, don't take this as a defense of BSU, SMU, or anyone else. I just don't
think it's as easy as you seem to suggest when many of these teams don't play any (or very many) actual teams outside of their conference, which leads to a lot of questions about how they really compare. Ole Miss's only P4 team in non-conference was Wake Forest, and then they played Furman, MTSU, and GA.S. at home.