Look: These days, the blue bloods aren't travelling to Waco, Ft Worth, Lubbock, Starkville, Stillwater, Pullman, Manhattan, West Lafayette, etc, etc unless they have to for conference games. USC visits Austin or Norman, not Waco these days. Additionally, these teams aren't asking you to travel there as they may get beat. At worse, they'll do 2 at home & one on the road (like BYU and USC coming up)
I've always said this for OOC: schedule home/away with regional foes each year: Rice, SMU, Tulane. Have one of those per year. Find some other MWC type to visit Waco: Wyoming, New Mexico, UTEP, etc once in awhile to visit Waco. At worse 2 in Waco while 1 there. Have home/away with the military academies. No one get slighted for that, and you can really promote at home (I still can't believe we lost to Army in Waco-- grr). Then do home/away with the P5 schools that give the alums a good trip and will return the favor: Northwestern, Arizona, UVA, Maryland, Illinois, Vandy, etc.
Someone got it with Duke, Utah, BYU and Oregon, but the Incarnate Words and ACUs should have been bought out the day our new AD signed his contract.
We can start with 2020 and 2021: Air Force has availability. Buy out ICW, and do a home/away with Air Force. So, 2020 is Ole Miss, LaTech and AF and 2021 is TxState, BYU and AF. Not bad!
Lately, newspaper mentioned cheap airfare
I've got to fly to Saint Somewhere
I'm close to bodily harm