Urban Meyer has seen both sides of the scheduling debate in college football from his time at Florida and Ohio State. He has a strong opinion about it, too.

Speaking with Gerry DiNardo on the Big Ten Network, Meyer laid out the problems, and a solution, with scheduling FCS teams ahead of playing your rival, versus playing a tough conference game.

“The SEC has the answer, I don’t agree with it, I lived it for six years,” Meyer said. “I could not wait until The Citadel or Charleston Southern showed up.”

He said the Ohio State training room after the Penn State game was likely packed with players, as he estimated around 30 players. An SEC team that played an FCS opponent likely had no one in the training room. Meyer added that Ohio State players, for example, being banged up would miss two or three practices.

“‘That’s just practice, coach,'” he recalled someone saying. “What the heck are you talking about? That’s how you’re going to win this game. That’s behind the scenes not that many people see.”

Do Auburn and Alabama have an advantage after many players likely didn’t play in the second half against FCS competition?

“Of course they have an advantage,” he said. “That goes back to that uniform scheduling. You want to make this world all fair. Uniform scheduling. Nine conference games, or eight. You want to play an FCS team, then so does Ohio State, so does the team up north.”