bowl team this year and beat NC St. I don't know who of their players they expect to bring back, but playing them is about equivalent to playing a bottom-feeding P4 team.
Now to cancel the game and do a buy game at home for a 7th home game? That makes sense strategically.
I don't totally understand the aversion to a 7th home game and why BYU got out of so many other games but isn't choosing to get out a few of these G5 road games, but I also think its fun when P4 teams are willing to play G5 teams on the road.