The conference looks out for the conference. That’s why the conference had a policy that one of its members would not have a game against an out of conference man member while one of its own members went without a game.
That was a published criteria for scheduling with the pack 12.
It was their prerogative to do that as they protect the conference.
If we were in the conference and UW scheduled a game with independent Utah and then our game got cancelled and we weren’t able to play and Utah was how would we feel about the conference.