I am fine with the body bag game so long as we do something different with SMU. Yea I would love for us to schedule Bama, but give me another P5 with a home/home, a G5 to visit the carter, and a body bag game in the Carter and you have a logical schedule heading into conference play. I would love for the body bag game to be a step up from Duquesne but beggers can't be choosers I guess.
OU's setup with Tulane getting two at home and one in Nola is infinitely better than us trading home and away with SMU. Maybe TCU doesn't wield that power but it would be sure nice to know if we are even trying instead of the lazy effort of keeping the non-rivalry going with SMU and giving up a home game every other year.
My issue with the game is that it sucks for the fan. It's one thing to schedule some overmatched teams in basketball. The games are a couple hours long, people are in and out pretty quickly, and there are about 18-20 home games in a season. In football you've got 6, maybe 7. Wasting one of those on a game that isn't remotely compelling is just too big of a waste. They are like NFL preseason games, a complete waste of everyone's time.
And I'll never believe our guys will get more out of playing a bunch of overmatched Duquense kids than they would just playing a controlled scrimmage against each other, so the "we need this game to get ready for the season" is just dumb IMO. The coaches want an automatic win, that's what it's about, period. And when they are paid millions of dollars to coach a college football team, they shouldn't get one. These games should never be played, by any P5 school.