Pretty much what alarson said. Not top notch FCS schools or MAC schools picked towards the top of their conference. Yes ISU should beat them anyway, but since we're not...time to schedule even worse programs. Western Illinois again or North Texas level teams would be good starts. This football program doesn't need challenges early in the year, it needs W's and practice/confidence heading into the grinder that is the Big 12 conference schedule round robin. 1-2 record going into conference play isn't making anyone in Ames feel good. 1-3 if we manage to lose to KU (totally within the realm of possibility at this point) and this program will be at the absolute rock bottom in modern Cyclone fb history. We have to get schedules that will result in 2-1 nonconf being worst case scenario and 3-0 when it's not 2-1.