To piggyback onto this, this point just reminds me of how much it enrages me to see the entire sport get restructured around the whims of the committee.
For example, there are 4 D1 schools in Iowa (ISU, U of I, Northern Iowa, and Drake). Drake and UNI are in the same conference and play twice a year. Both would play ISU and Iowa in the non-con in home-and-homes. In part because of how the committee started giving such heavy weight to metrics, ISU and Iowa ended those series to just load up on low major creampuffs to pad their metrics. You'd get punished so much for dropping a game to those highly motivated in-state opponents that it became a true losing proposition to play those games. I was elated at the time (because I hate losing to them) but after attending a UNI/Drake game this year at UNI, I thought "man, it would be fun if ISU still played in this gym".
I'm sure there are countless examples of these high major/mid major in-state games being scuttled all over the country as a result of the same phenomena. And it sucks.