They play the easy MWC schedule, but they're consistently ranked in the top 25 every year and because of that they're always in the conversation. Does our indy schedule really help us that much? Does our indy money really help us that much? What drives a program's success is winning. In fact, proof of this is that beating mostly mediocre teams is what put us on the CFB map in the 80's and 90's in the first place.