After watching this weekends games I'm just glad we got the W. There's a possibility of 3 top 5 teams going down and 4 top 10 teams going down. Not to mention almost half the SEC lost their week 1 games for the first time in 20 years. We usually have to wait until later in the season to see this type of chaos but we got to see it week 1 and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed all the games except ours of course. Hopefully we stop scheduling these dangerous Group of 5 teams and paying them over $1M to play on our field. There are no positives or negatives in winning against teams like that and at the end of the day they just proved they can hang with the Power 5 schools. Either schedule an FCS cupcake to get a tune up for week 1 or go ahead and schedule a Power 5 home-and-home for week 1. It's not worth $1M to play a dangerous team with no benefit of winning to start out the season. All we can hope for is they learn from that game and play lights out the rest of the season.
It's not the scheduling, it's the preparation and quality of recruits coupled with the coaching.