Dear george14,
If, you schedule so-called good teams and beat them (and that is the most important point) then you deserve whatever rating system will give your team. You consistently say schedule is more important, but leave out the point of being able to beat the better teams. That was my point with Bucknell. The teams that they scheduled that were better then them. they lost. So, they should still have a higher ranking then others with a losing record? You know that makes no sense.
You do make my point by saying that the teams making the dance have winning records.