This x 1 million.
Most years, the 6th home game slot would better serve our program if it were a P5 road game.
If I were directing this scheduling, I would keep the in-state, FCS game. The other non-conference games would first try to be scheduled with any AAC school, Eastern Division MWC school or Rice, laTech, USM.
Whatever spots left over would go to Big 12 schools first, then other P5.
...., and I would keep that philosophy as much as possible across all sports.
Only outlier would be NMSU, if they agreed to a basketball series for a long time.
Playing out of state FCS, any MAC school, or any CUSA school outside of the above 3, does absolutely nothing for our program.