If you want an actually solid, but achievable, OOC schedule, look at Penn State’s from last year. Same 20 game conference schedule. They had the Gavitt Games on the road at Georgetown, the ACC challenge against Wake Forest, the second year of a home/home versus Alabama, and a two-game tournament against Syracuse and Ole Miss (with OK State being the other team in the tournament). They buttressed it with two games against Ivies (a good Yale and a terrible, but usually decent, Cornell), a regional opponent in Bucknell (like RMU), and three total stinker buy games.
If you’re looking at a similar Pitt schedule, you could see:
Two Tourney games (shooting for at least one as a Q1 neutral, name brand opponent doesn’t matter)
B1G/ACC (Q1 if on road, Q1/Q2 if home)
High major home/home with local interest like WVU (again, Q1 on road, Q2 at home)
Duquesne (home or neutral - Q2 if they’re good, Q3 if they’re bad)
Big East Reprise (make it a neutral site at MSG or Barclays around the holidays after the students go home and the Zoo’s empty)
Five home mid/low majors - mix of regionals like Youngstown and St. Francis, a CUSA or MAC team like Akron, Kent, Marshall or an Ivy, and then fill the rest with Monmouth, Howard, American, etc.
Keeps it close, regional, interesting, good for NET, and winnable.