I don't have an answer for that, but I understand why there wouldn't be a rule for these games to automatically alternate who is home and who is away because you could play against two opponents in a given year that you played at home the last time you played them.  If you played them both on the road this year, you'd have more away games than home games.  One of those two opponents must be a home game and the other must be an away game so you can't guarantee an alternating home and away schedule with same place opponents.  You can guarantee a home and away alternating schedule with out of conference opponents and until today I thought that was the case without issue, but obviously there is a reason why they didn't with these two teams this year.  I'm just curious as to why.

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