The Pac-12 waited until the 16th day of 2020 to release the football schedule for 2020.
The extra time gave the conference a chance to inject as much competitive balance as possible into the master grid.
Scheduling is like officiating: No crew gets every call right, and no schedule will meet the same degree of difficulty for every team.
The key in both endeavors is avoiding egregious mistakes.
Pac-12 officials did that in the national championship, and the conference did it again with the 2020 master schedule.
Several teams face more challenging stretches than others, but it’s all within a reasonable range.