I think UW was forced into taking all of these late games for TV accommodation. I mean think about it when is the last time we had this many late games in 1 season? It's because Wyoming has no local cable provider that wants to cover or is capable of broadcasting the games.
Boise could easily get coverage from NBCSports, Air Force and CSU have a multitude of broadcast providers in Colorado that were willing to jump at the coverage options. Root picked up everything that it could but could only broadcast 2 games per day or 3 if including a late game.
You are nearly always going to put the weaker or the lower audience teams as the late games not in the first or second spot. I think we can think the University for this as they either did a shit job finding broadcast options or they were being cheap and I'm willing to bet they were being cheap it's nothing new.