if the pac had one dominant team and the rest trash, they would all be lumped together as poor in your mind, and many others. it wouldn't matter if the one team was playing well. the knock on them would be that their conference as a whole was bad. byu may not be in the pac, but people outside of your bubble lump western teams together. it is what it is. if the pac struggles, byu looks bad. if they play well, byu gets that benefit as well.
it doesn't matter if byu has the schedule it has at this point. if it did, we would be in the top 25. wins matter. nobody cares about our schedule anymore. it's been publicized, but byu has been forgotten. byu strength of schedule isn't being remembered by anyone outside of us fans. be serious here, man. if we string together wins, we will be remembered, but nobody out here in the east cares. sorry. the trib and desnews don't count as "publicized".