Got a chance Tuesday to throw a question at Jeff Long, the Arkansas athletic director and chairman of the College Football Playoff committee, during a live segment on CampusInsiders.com. To make that question more efficient here than it was in real life, I asked him if “it’s a priority at all” to encourage better nonleague scheduling through this process – which, as you may recall, was all the talk when the CFP was first announced. The question pertains to Michigan State, of course, because the Spartans are sitting at No. 8 in the rankings with their loss at Oregon, rather than unbeaten and No. 3 – that’s where I believe they’d be right now – had they scheduled like the other MSU (Southern Miss, UAB, South Alabama, Tennessee-Martin). Or Ole Miss (Boise State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Memphis, Presbyterian). Or Baylor (SMU, Northwestern State, Buffalo). - Read more at Freep.com