School Grades are broken

For context; I am in an online dynasty where I’ve reassembled the PAC-12 and play as an inserted TeamBuilder Team. I just won my first National Championship in my fourth season.

We were only a 3.5 school after winning some minor-major bowl games and losing a playoff game in the first three years, but thanks to some great transfers and a focus on player development we had a good enough roster to make a run to the Natty and win it.

My nine best players ranging from RS(SO) to SR got drafted in the first three rounds (3 in round 1, 3 in round 2, 3 in round 3). And I just had my best recruiting class consisting of majority 4* and 5* players. So explain to me how school grades barely went up and we stayed at 3.5*

I’ve been TOLD, to increase it you need bowl games, players drafted, good recruiting, and consistent winning. I’ve checked ALL FOUR boxes, scheduled games against ranked opponents in the BIG10 and SEC to increase brand exposure. I feel like I’ve done EVERYTHING this game tells me to do to increase school stars; and I’ve got NOTHING to show for it?!

Does this game just hate the PAC-12 label? Do I need to be like Bama and win f*#%ing six national championships before I glimpse 4 stars?! This feels wildly unfair, like I’m being punished for my hard work; and I’ll need to move to one of the two “so-called Elite” conferences to be given any sort of credibility.

Seriously, what the heck EA?! Is there going to be a fix for this? Or am I doomed to sit and watch the same schools outbid me for recruiting and be ranked higher based on an arbitrary broken system that seems to punish my successes?

It feels unbelievable, am I crazy or doing something wrong?

Edit: I’ll also throw out that the PAC-12 last season finished with four teams ranked in the top-25 and two playoff teams including my custom school. So conference prestige also feels like it’s being wildly ignored.