K-State has been in the top 20 for the past like 7 years homie, trust me, if they arent in the top 10 preseason they will be in the top 20 for sure, I will promise you that....I would almost bet my savings account on that shit, i aint tryin to say K-State is all that but that is just how the shit goes and K-State plays a horrible schedule so they wont loss early, if you wanna see a shitty non conference schedule look at K-States, probably one of the worst in the top 25....I understand what you are saying about putting too much credit into the bowl teams but when you do play a bowl team they are at least an average team, they are not cup cakes......I mean you can say what you wanna say about K-State, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Texas and whoever....it really dont mean shit.....year in and year out a few teams from the conference will be up there high enough to help out whoever needs it
I dont want you to think I am saying this is how it SHOULD BE or that this is the FAIR way to do it or saying that a team may be the most deserving by doing it this way.....but what I am saying is that this is the system that every teams in American is playing under, work the system to your best advantage, if your goal is to win a title, why wouldnt you.....every team has different agenda's.....some are to get more exposure for recruiting, some are trying to build player confidence with really eazy wins, some are trying to play the best teams in the nation like Fresno State does (no clue why they do).....it really all depends on where you are trying to take your team in the long run....if you are wanting to win a title, there is a very hard way to go about it and a somewhat less hard way (dont want to call it easy by any means) cuz you can get beat in a conference game very easily by a rival and it wont have anything to do with how good you really are, kinda like Cal beat USC.