...didn't have a top 10 P5 team in the schedule? Whereas most P5 teams, through conference play, play at least a game or two against teams that are top 10-15 teams by year's end.

FWIW Michigan was 12th at year's end in 2015 after we played them.

With only 4-6 P5 games, it's hit or miss and out of our control unless we actually get invited to a P5 conference. Until then, scheduling LSU, Utah, Wisconsin, and Mississippi State will have to do. Or some years we'll do this:

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=18498071

For the position that BYU is in, these are fairly impressive schedules. Most of the P5 conferences consider BYU a P5 OOC opponent. Last year in particular was a very, very full schedule. Any football writer looking at that schedule, if BYU had won out, would make the case that BYU was effectively playing a P5 schedule. They're not going to get hung up on whether West Virginia was ranked around #20 or #10 at year's end.

Just seems like a strange point to hammer home. It's not really responding to anything in the tangent you replied to above...

It's like...I was making the point that we are competitive at the P5 level. Not every P5 school is in the top 25, let alone top 10. Of our 6 games last year, we won 3. Obviously it was against P5 teams that weren't awesome. So what? They're still P5 schools by definition. Which means we were competitive amongst them. The year before we played 4 P5 schools. We beat Nebraska, were blown out by Michigan, and played UCLA within 1 point and Utah within 1 touchdown. If playing that way, wherein the score is competitive to the end of the game, and therefore the games are competitive, I don't know what is.