That's how I feel, too.
Michigan is already stuck playing Maryland and Rutgers every year, now. Why not make the non-con schedule as interesting as possible, especially if it could make the difference between making the playoff or not? So far, Warde Manuel has only added MAC teams and Colorado State for future guarantee games, whereas Dave Brandon had scheduled Air Force, Army, UNLV, Hawaii, Cincinnati, SMU, UCF, BYU, Oregon State, and Colorado. Obviously, some of those schools hardly ever agree to guarantee games, but it goes to show that Michigan doesn't have to settle for MAC games.
Even some of the SEC schools are starting to realize this. Florida is finally scheduling non-con series besides Florida State. Alabama is scheduling series instead of just playing a neutral site game every year. Georgia's future non-con games are particularly impressive.
The same applies to non-con scheduling in basketball. Even though the BigTen went to 20 conference games last year, fortunately they primarily displaced guarantee games as opposed to big games.