It's tough to call them weaker schedules when we can't beat USU, get beat by NIU and lose to UMASS.
We aren't P5 level, even though we are playing those teams.... we are more AAC level in terms of recruiting and depth.
We know how good we are... we don't need an LSU blanking us to know how good we are. Beating Wisconsin proved absolutely nothing last year when the weeks that followed we got beat bad by USU and beat by NIU. Playing a tough schedule doesn't prove anything that we already know about our team. The recruiting by itself tells us what kind of team we have.