games. The only counter-argument is "I don't think they're good enough to compete," and "Those games will be blowouts."

Both of which might true most of the time. And yet every other sport in the NCAA and everywhere else still plays them. And, by the way, we haven't even gotten to a scenario where 2 or 3 small conference teams are undefeated, or have one close loss. At some point that's going to happen.