Managing 85 scholarships over 65, managing a much larger organization, a much larger budget, there's 50K tickets to sell, there's 70 suites to fill, there's 3000 high dollar stadium club seats to fill.
You're not game planning against Colgate, you're game planning against guys who are standing up on the podium in NYC. Make fun of B12 D's all you want. OU will get better, Texas will get better. It's game planning for 9 plus weeks straight to play P5 teams.
NDSU beat K-State, beat Iowa State, beat Iowa . . . good for them, but each of those programs has proven they can crap the bed to nearly anybody on any given Saturday, and they've proven it repeatedly. My gawd Drake was beating Iowa State for a lot of the game.
It aint the same.