We did or we didn't get to play those teams when we were in the MWC? I'm pretty sure we did.... I looked it up... I was also at those games.
When you want is 6 P5 games... which I understand... but I'm also like... whocares. They don't mean anything... 6 P5 games... 2... 8... 11... heck, make all our games against P5 right now... THEY'LL MEAN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!! We could play Alabama every week of the season, beat them every single game... and we aren't getting into the playoffs... all we did was prevent Bama from making it.
The playoff system is a fixed jobbed system to keep US out of it, as well as many other teams... including even some P5 teams... see TCU in 2013(?). If you're goal is the playoffs... you've lost... you're never going to achieve that. In fact UCF proved that completely.... just like BYU proved it in 1995... the system is created to keep teams out, not to be inclusive to everyone. That's just fact.