You're making some fair points about the mental grind of traveling to different styles every week. But let's be real, playing a bunch of Power Four teams is only a strength if you're actually beating them. We see it in the Big Ten every year, where the week-in, week-out physicality is what truly builds a team. A cushy conference schedule? There's nothing cushy about our line of scrimmage battlles every Saturday. You build resilience by surviving a full conference slate, not by picking your spots. I respect the independent hustle, but until you're consistently winning those big games, the strength of schedule talk is going to persist.