Texas Tech isn't the bad guy here. They are calling Texas out for the same thing we are -- talking out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to strength of schedule. "Oh they don't play anyone, so they aren't actually as good as their record" followed by "We can't afford to play them because we could lose."
If ND or TT or whoever are so bad that they could beat them with your 2s and 3s, as that drunken fuckwit has claimed, what are they so worried about? It shouldn't matter who they play the next week, the 1s would play a couple of quarters to get the rust off and then rest the second half.
The fact of the matter is that this is a considered effort from the SEC to play buy games and conference games and that's it. As long as the SEC doesn't schedule any decent OOC opponent, then they can continue with the lie that they are the pre-eminent college football conference, despite the past several years of results in the CFP.
Hopefully Pete B realizes at this point that Sankey is not actually his friend, and that he is just as responsible for what happened during the selection process as Jim Phillips.