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And while there is always risk that teams believed to be strong when scheduled will be in a down year or period, your point on conference scheduling hasn't seemed to have affected 2028 or other future years.

Next year is putrid. The Wisconsin game is a reschedule from Covid and they are traditionally decent, but I still wouldn't categorize that as a great game. Miami is the only other decent team and they are there only because of the ACC scheduling.

Perhaps Bevacqua is changing this with some of the recent announcements. Swarbrick rolled over for Kelly too easily.