We'd probably beat out the likes of the Kansas schools in many areas as well as tech and others.

We don't need to pitch ourselves simply as "the best of what's left over" but that we are already peers by the numbers. This way the pressure would be on them as their choice in school will be a message to the rest of cfb stating either "we're a power conference getting stronger" not " we're the weakest power conference just trying to plug some holes so we can survive".