With regard to OOC scheduling, I seem to recall a poster (?Scipio) who once accurately advocated for either (A) you play home-and-home with a blue blood like USC, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame. ***or** (B) you play a patsy -- maybe in a 2-for-1 series -- with a. regional team like Rice or Tulane, so that your team gets a few wins and your alums get some home games (or de facto home games), and the players get to play in front of their families at Rice stadium or wherever.
But as I recall, and I think this was the phrase used, "Don't mess with Mr In-between." i.e. don't travel far away to play mid-level teams who aren't marquee opponents, yet they're still good enough to beat you.
And though I like a lot of those fan bases (Oklahoma State, Iowa State), playing those teams 5 years from now really does nothing to sell your program to recruits ("Hey, Johnny Five Star! If you come here, you'll get to be on TV when we go to AMES/STILLWATER/ETC!!!!!!").
And those schools might have a proven head coach (Patterson, Gundy), who will fucking hang an out-of-conference "L" on you in a night-time, biggest-home-game-of-their-year upset.
Outside of nostalgia, there would be very little upside to playing almost all the teams in your poll.