No bye week is a function of the conference schedule. Technically, our "bye week" is Nov 17.
Our conference has 7 teams, so each week, one conference team has a "bye". Last year, Coastal had the "last bye", Liberty "second to last", etc.
We're the champs (awesome), so we get the "last bye", which is Nov 17. We could have tried to fill that with a non-conference game, but thats a really tough slot to fill.
I love the idea of a bye week going into the playoffs, or even better, if we can dominate, we could end up with two bye weeks going into the playoffs...