College football will be here before we know it, but it’s never too early to start anticipating the season ahead. For the first time, College Football Network has painstakingly gone through every team’s schedule — welcome Kennesaw State — and analyzed the toughest roads ahead for each FBS team.
Introducing: The first-of-its-kind CFN Strength of Schedule for the 2024 season.
College Football Strength of Schedule for 2024
CFN’s exclusive strength of schedule metric was crafted carefully using as many resources as possible ahead of the 2024 season. Using a bevy of metrics such as returning production, roster projections, coaching staff, incoming talent, home-field advantage, and other factors, the CFN SOS analyzes which teams have the most difficult and easiest schedules this season.
CFN’s strength of schedule metric included each team’s transfer portal classes, valued quarterbacks returning to their school, and continuation among the coaching staffs into the ranking.
These factors all awarded schedule difficulty more heavily based on merit and projection, as opposed to looking back at results from last season, though those results were factored in moderately. They’ve also been updated following all the reports from spring practice, final transfer portal class numbers, and the most up-to-date roster and depth chart files we have on hand.
Here’s how the teams now rank ahead of the 2024 season.
1) Florida Gators
Toughest Game: @ Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. Samford
S.O.S. Score: 28.17 (+0.25)
May Rank: 1
2) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Toughest Game: @ Georgia
Easiest Game: vs. VMI
S.O.S. Score: 24.79 (-0.63)
May Rank:
3) Houston Cougars
Toughest Game: @ Arizona
Easiest Game: vs. Rice
S.O.S. Score: 24.79 (+0.88)
May Rank: 5 (+2)
4) Oklahoma Sooners
Toughest Game: @ Ole Miss
Easiest Game: vs. Maine
S.O.S. Score: 24.50 (+0.21)
May Rank: 3 (-1)
5) Colorado Buffaloes
Toughest Game: @ Arizona
Easiest Game: vs. North Dakota State
S.O.S. Score: 24.33 (+0.54)
May Rank: 8 (+3)
6) Alabama Crimson Tide
Toughest Game: vs. Georgia
Easiest Game: vs. Mercer
S.O.S. Score: 24.13 (+0.29)
May Rank: T6 (-)
7) Purdue Boilermakers
Toughest Game: @ Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Indiana State
S.O.S. Score: 24.04 (+0.38)
May Rank: 10 (+3)
8) USC Trojans
Toughest Game: @ Michigan
Easiest Game: vs. Utah State
S.O.S. Score: 23.96 (-0.29)
May Rank: 4 (-4)
9) Vanderbilt Commodores
Toughest Game: vs. Alabama
Easiest Game: vs. Alcorn State
S.O.S. Score: 23.96 (+0.13)
May Rank: T6 (-3)
10) Arizona State Sun Devils
Toughest Game: @ Arizona
Easiest Game: vs. Wyoming
S.O.S. Score: 23.88 (+1.29)
May Rank: 15 (+5)
11) Arkansas Razorbacks
Toughest Game: vs. Texas
Easiest Game: vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
S.O.S. Score: 23.79 (+0.08)
May Rank: 9 (-2)
12) Mississippi State Bulldogs
Toughest Game: @ Georgia
Easiest Game: vs. Eastern Kentucky
S.O.S. Score: 23.50 (+0.17)
May Rank: 11 (-1)
13) West Virginia Mountaineers
Toughest Game: @ Arizona
Easiest Game: vs. Albany
S.O.S. Score: 23.38 (+1.08)
May Rank: 19 (+6)
14) South Carolina Gamecocks
Toughest Game: @ Alabama
Easiest Game: vs. Wofford
S.O.S. Score: 23.17 (+0.58)
May Rank: T16 (+2)
15) Georgia Bulldogs
Toughest Game: @ Alabama
Easiest Game: vs. Tennessee Tech
S.O.S. Score: 22.96 (-0.04)
May Rank: 13 (-2)
16) UCLA Bruins
Toughest Game: vs. Oregon
Easiest Game: @ Hawaii
S.O.S. Score: 22.75 (-0.33)
May Rank: 12 (-4)
17) Michigan Wolverines
Toughest Game: @ Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Arkansas State
S.O.S. Score: 22.67 (+0.25)
May Rank: 18 (+1)
18) Wisconsin Badgers
Toughest Game: vs. Oregon
Easiest Game: vs. South Dakota
S.O.S. Score: 22.46 (-0.50)
May Rank: 14 (-4)
19) Florida State Seminoles
Toughest Game: @ Notre Dame
Easiest Game: vs. Charleston Southern
S.O.S. Score: 22.42 (+0.46)
May Rank: T21 (+2)
20) Kentucky Wildcats
Toughest Game: @ Texas
Easiest Game: vs. Murray State
S.O.S. Score: 22.25 (+0.04)
May Rank: T16 (-4)
21) BYU Cougars
Toughest Game: @ Utah
Easiest Game: vs. Southern Illinois
S.O.S. Score: 21.83 (+0.67)
May Rank: 27 (+6)
22) Texas A&M Aggies
Toughest Game: vs. Texas
Easiest Game: vs. McNeese
S.O.S. Score: 21.79 (+0.58)
May Rank: T25 (+3)
23) LSU Tigers
Toughest Game: vs. Alabama
Easiest Game: vs. Nicholls
S.O.S. Score: 21.71 (+0.50)
May Rank: T25 (+2)
24) TCU Horned Frogs
Toughest Game: @ Utah
Easiest Game: vs. Long Island
S.O.S. Score: 21.63 (+0.29)
May Rank: 24 (-)
25) Illinois Fighting Illini
Toughest Game: @ Oregon
Easiest Game: vs. Eastern Illinois
S.O.S. Score: 21.38 (-0.08)
May Rank: T21 (-4)
26) Washington Huskies
Toughest Game: @ Oregon
Easiest Game: vs. Weber State
S.O.S. Score: 21.21 (+0.07)
May Rank: 28 (+2)
27) Kansas State Wildcats
Toughest Game: vs. Arizona
Easiest Game: vs. UT Martin
S.O.S. Score: 21.13 (-)
May Rank: 23 (-4)
28) Clemson Tigers
Toughest Game: @ Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. The Citadel
S.O.S. Score: 21.00 (-0.17)
May Rank: 20 (-8)
29) Oregon Ducks
Toughest Game: @ Michigan
Easiest Game: vs. Idaho
S.O.S. Score: 20.79 (-0.13)
May Rank: 30 (+1)
30) Northwestern Wildcats
Toughest Game: @ Michigan
Easiest Game: vs. Eastern Illinois
S.O.S. Score: 20.79 (+0.33)
May Rank: 32 (+2)
31) Texas Longhorns
Toughest Game: @ Michigan
Easiest Game: vs. UL-Monroe
S.O.S. Score: 20.71 (+0.42)
May Rank: T34 (+3)
32) Ohio State Buckeyes
Toughest Game: @ Oregon
Easiest Game: vs. Akron
S.O.S. Score: 20.67 (+0.38)
May Rank: T34 (+2)
33) Michigan State Spartans
Toughest Game: @ Oregon
Easiest Game: vs. Prairie View A&M
S.O.S. Score: 20.63 (+0.75)
May Rank: T38 (+5)
34) Baylor Bears
Toughest Game: @ Utah
Easiest Game: vs. Tarleton State
S.O.S. Score: 20.50 (+0.04)
May Rank: T32 (-2)
35) Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Toughest Game: vs. Ole Miss
Easiest Game: vs. North Carolina A&T
S.O.S. Score: 20.21 (-1.13)
May Rank: 31 (-4)
36) Stanford Cardinal
Toughest Game: @ Clemson
Easiest Game: vs. Cal Poly
S.O.S. Score: 20.21 (-0.42)
May Rank: 29 (-7)
37) Duke Blue Devils
Toughest Game: vs. Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. Elon
S.O.S. Score: 19.92 (-0.67)
May Rank: 37 (-)
T38) Boston College Eagles
Toughest Game: @ Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. Duquesne
S.O.S. Score: 19.75 (-0.17)
May Rank: T34 (-4)
T38) Auburn Tigers
Toughest Game: @ Georgia
Easiest Game: vs. Alabama A&M
S.O.S. Score: 19.75 (+0.25)
May Rank: 43 (+5)
40) Ole Miss Rebels
Toughest Game: vs. Georgia
Easiest Game: vs. Furman
S.O.S. Score: 19.71 (+1.00)
May Rank: 54 (+14)
41) Minnesota Golden Gophers
Toughest Game: @ Michigan
Easiest Game: vs. Rhode Island
S.O.S. Score: 19.67 (-0.21)
May Rank: T38 (-3)
42) Virginia Cavaliers
Toughest Game: @ Clemson
Easiest Game: vs. Richmond
S.O.S. Score: 19.67 (+0.54)
May Rank: 43 (+1)
43) Louisville Cardinals
Toughest Game: @ Clemson
Easiest Game: vs. Austin Peay
S.O.S. Score: 19.63 (+0.58)
May Rank: 54 (+11)
44) Texas Tech Red Raiders
Toughest Game: @ Arizona
Easiest Game: Abilene Christian
S.O.S. Score: 19.58 (-0.17)
May Rank: 40 (-4)
45) Utah Utes
Toughest Game: @ Oklahoma State
Easiest Game: vs. Southern Utah
S.O.S. Score: 19.46 (-0.21)
May Rank: 42 (-3)
46) Iowa State Cyclones
Toughest Game: @ Utah
Easiest Game: vs. North Dakota
S.O.S. Score: 19.42 (+0.67)
May Rank: 51 (+5)
47) Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Toughest Game: vs. Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. Stanford
S.O.S. Score: 19.21 (-0.13)
May Rank: 41 (-6)
48) Oklahoma State Cowboys
Toughest Game: vs. Utah
Easiest Game: vs. South Dakota State
S.O.S. Score: 19.17 (+0.33)
May Rank: 50 (+2)
49) Penn State Nittany Lions
Toughest Game: vs. Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Kent State
S.O.S. Score: 18.92 (-0.54)
May Rank: T45 (-4)
50) Miami (FL) Hurricanes
Toughest Game: vs. Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. Florida A&M
S.O.S. Score: 18.71 (-0.38)
May Rank: T45 (-5)
51) Maryland Terrapins
Toughest Game: @ Oregon
Easiest Game: vs. Villanova
S.O.S. Score: 18.67 (-0.21)
May Rank: 49 (-2)
52) Tennessee Volunteers
Toughest Game: @ Georgia
Easiest Game: vs. Chattanooga
S.O.S. Score: 18.58 (-0.50)
May Rank: 47 (-5)
53) UCF Knights
Toughest Game: @ Utah
Easiest Game: vs. New Hampshire
S.O.S. Score: 18.50 (-0.46)
May Rank: 48 (-5)
54) Cincinnati Bearcats
Toughest Game: @ Kansas State
Easiest Game: vs. Towson
S.O.S. Score: 18.46 (+0.58)
May Rank: 57 (+3)
55) Iowa Hawkeyes
Toughest Game: @ Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Illinois State
S.O.S. Score: 18.42 (-0.33)
May Rank: 52 (-3)
56) Kansas Jayhawks
Toughest Game: @ Kansas State
Easiest Game: vs. Lindenwood
S.O.S. Score: 18.17 (+0.67)
May Rank: 61 (+5)
57) Nebraska Cornhuskers
Toughest Game: @ Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Northern Iowa
S.O.S. Score: 18.08 (+0.08)
May Rank: 55 (-2)
58) California Golden Bears
Toughest Game: @ Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. UC Davis
S.O.S. Score: 17.96 (-0.29)
May Rank: 59 (-1)
59) ODU Monarchs
Toughest Game: @ App State
Easiest Game: vs. ECU
S.O.S. Score: 17.88 (+0.67)
May Rank: 62 (+3)
60) Arizona Wildcats
Toughest Game: @ Utah
Easiest Game: vs. Northern Arizona
S.O.S. Score: 17.71 (+0.17)
May Rank: 60 (-)
61) Syracuse Orange
Toughest Game: @ NC State
Easiest Game: vs. Holy Cross
S.O.S. Score: 17.50 (-0.38)
May Rank: 63 (+2)
62) Indiana Hoosiers
Toughest Game: @ Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Western Illinois
S.O.S. Score: 17.42 (-0.54)
May Rank: 56 (-6)
63) Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Toughest Game: @ USC
Easiest Game: vs. Howard
S.O.S. Score: 17.42 (+0.25)
May Rank: 65 (+2)
64) Tulane Green Wave
Toughest Game: @ Oklahoma
Easiest Game: vs. SE Louisiana
S.O.S. Score: 17.29 (+0.54)
May Rank: 68 (+4)
65) Missouri Tigers
Toughest Game: @ Alabama
Easiest Game: vs. Murray State
S.O.S. Score: 17.08 (+1.00)
May Rank: 78 (+13)
66) North Carolina Tar Heels
Toughest Game: @ Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. NC Central
S.O.S. Score: 16.96 (-0.58)
May Rank: 58 (-8)
67) UMass Minutemen
Toughest Game: @ Georgia
Easiest Game: vs. Central Connecticut
S.O.S. Score: 16.73 (-0.23)
May Rank: 67 (-)
68) USF Bulls
Toughest Game: @ Alabama
Easiest Game: vs. Bethune-Cookman
S.O.S. Score: 16.71 (-0.04)
May Rank: 73 (+5)
69) Virginia Tech Hokies
Toughest Game: vs. Clemson
Easiest Game: vs. ODU
S.O.S. Score: 16.67 (+0.13)
May Rank: 79 (+10)
70) Pittsburgh Panthers
Toughest Game: vs. Clemson
Easiest Game: vs. Youngstown State
S.O.S. Score: 16.63 (-0.25)
May Rank: 64 (-6)
71) Memphis Tigers
Toughest Game: @ Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. North Alabama
S.O.S. Score: 16.54 (+0.04)
May Rank: 69 (-2)
72) Georgia Southern Eagles
Toughest Game: @ Ole Miss
Easiest Game: vs. South Carolina State
S.O.S. Score: 16.38 (-0.42)
May Rank: 66 (-6)
73) Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders
Toughest Game: @ Ole Miss
Easiest Game: vs. Tennessee Tech
S.O.S. Score: 16.38 (-0.17)
May Rank: 74 (+1)
74) NC State Wolfpack
Toughest Game: @ Clemson
Easiest Game: vs. Western Carolina
S.O.S. Score: 16.33 (-0.33)
May Rank: 71 (-3)
75) South Alabama Jaguars
Toughest Game: @ App State
Easiest Game: vs. Northwestern State
S.O.S. Score: 16.29 (+0.17)
May Rank: 77 (+2)
76) Appalachian State Mountaineers
Toughest Game: @ Clemson
Easiest Game: vs. East Tennessee State
S.O.S. Score: 16.21 (-0.42)
May Rank: 70 (-6)
77) Kent State Golden Flashes
Toughest Game: @ Penn State
Easiest Game: vs. St. Francis (PA)
S.O.S. Score: 16.08 (+0.17)
May Rank: 82 (+5)
78) Akron Zips
Toughest Game: @ Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Colgate
S.O.S. Score: 15.92 (-0.33)
May Rank: 75 (-3)
79) Marshall Thundering Herd
Toughest Game: @ Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Stony Brook
S.O.S. Score: 15.88 (-0.42)
May Rank: 72 (-7)
80) Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Toughest Game: @ JMU
Easiest Game: vs. SE Louisiana
S.O.S. Score: 15.63 (-0.25)
May Rank: 76 (-4)
T81) Northern Illinois Huskies
Toughest Game: @ Notre Dame
Easiest Game: vs. Western Illinois
S.O.S. Score: 15.58 (-0.21)
May Rank: 84 (+3)
T81) Navy Midshipmen
Toughest Game: vs. Notre Dame
Easiest Game: vs. Bucknell
S.O.S. Score: 15.58 (+0.17)
May Rank: 86 (+5)
83) SMU Mustangs
Toughest Game: vs. Florida State
Easiest Game: vs. Houston Christian
S.O.S. Score: 15.54 (+0.25)
May Rank: 85 (+2)
84) Charlotte 49ers
Toughest Game: @ Memphis
Easiest Game: vs. Gardner-Webb
S.O.S. Score: 15.29 (-0.17)
May Rank: 81 (-3)
85) UL-Monroe WarHawks
Toughest Game: @ Texas
Easiest Game: vs. Jackson State
S.O.S. Score: 15.23 (-0.35)
May Rank: 83 (-2)
86) Ball State Cardinals
Toughest Game: @ JMU
Easiest Game: vs. Missouri State
S.O.S. Score: 15.08 (-1.17)
May Rank: 80 (-6)
87) UTEP Miners
Toughest Game: @ Tennessee
Easiest Game: vs. Southern Utah
S.O.S. Score: 14.92 (+0.08)
May Rank: 94 (+7)
88) Temple Owls
Toughest Game: @ Oklahoma
Easiest Game: @ ECU
S.O.S. Score: 14.79 (-0.08)
May Rank: 91 (+3)
89) Miami (OH) RedHawks
Toughest Game: @ Notre Dame
Easiest Game: vs. UMass
S.O.S. Score: 14.71 (-0.67)
May Rank: 88 (-1)
90) Bowling Green Falcons
Toughest Game: @ Penn State
Easiest Game: vs. Fordham
S.O.S. Score: 14.67 (-0.29)
May Rank: 92 (+2)
91) Georgia State Panthers
Toughest Game: @ App State
Easiest Game: vs. Chattanooga
S.O.S. Score: 14.63 (-0.29)
May Rank: 90 (-1)
92) Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
Toughest Game: @ Alabama
Easiest Game: vs. Eastern Kentucky
S.O.S. Score: 14.63 (+0.58)
May Rank: 104 (+12)
93) UTSA Roadrunners
Toughest Game: @ Texas
Easiest Game: vs. Kennesaw State
S.O.S. Score: 14.63 (+0.67)
May Rank: 102 (+9)
94) Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
Toughest Game: @ JMU
Easiest Game: vs. William & Mary
S.O.S. Score: 14.50 (-0.67)
May Rank: 87 (-4)
95) Rice Owls
Toughest Game: @ Tulane
Easiest Game: vs. Texas Southern
S.O.S. Score: 14.50 (-0.46)
May Rank: 89 (-6)
96) Western Michigan Broncos
Toughest Game: @ Ohio State
Easiest Game: vs. Bethune-Cookman
S.O.S. Score: 14.46 (-0.21)
May Rank: 95 (-1)
97) Arkansas State Red Wolves
Toughest Game: @ Michigan
Easiest Game: vs. Central Arkansas
S.O.S. Score: 14.46 (+0.33)
May Rank: 99 (+2)
98) UAB Blazers
Toughest Game: @ Memphis
Easiest Game: vs. Alcorn State
S.O.S. Score: 14.38 (-0.33)
May Rank: 93 (-5)
99) Sam Houston Bearkats
Toughest Game: vs. Liberty
Easiest Game: @ Kennesaw State
S.O.S. Score: 14.38 (-0.08)
May Rank: 97 (-2)
100) Oregon State Beavers
Toughest Game: vs. Oregon
Easiest Game: vs. Idaho State
S.O.S. Score: 14.38 (-0.17)
May Rank: 96 (-4)
101) Central Michigan Chippewas
Toughest Game: @ Miami (OH)
Easiest Game: vs. Central Connecticut
S.O.S. Score: 13.92 (-0.17)
May Rank: 101 (+1)
102) Nevada Wolf Pack
Toughest Game: @ Boise State
Easiest Game: vs. Eastern Washington
S.O.S. Score: 13.73 (-0.42)
May Rank: 98 (-3)
103) Utah State Aggies
Toughest Game: @ USC
Easiest Game: vs. Robert Morris
S.O.S. Score: 13.67 (-0.33)
May Rank: 101 (-2)
T104) New Mexico Lobos
Toughest Game: @ Arizona
Easiest Game: vs. Montana State
S.O.S. Score: 13.42 (-0.50)
May Rank: 103 (-1)
T104) Boise State Broncos
Toughest Game: @ Oregon
Easiest Game: vs. Portland State
S.O.S. Score: 13.42 (-0.13)
May Rank: 105 (+1)
T104) North Texas Mean Green
Toughest Game: @ Memphis
Easiest Game: vs. Stephen F. Austin
S.O.S. Score: 13.42 (+0.25)
May Rank: 108 (+4)
107) ECU Pirates
Toughest Game: vs. App State
Easiest Game: vs. Norfolk State
S.O.S. Score: 13.38 (+0.08)
May Rank: 110 (+3)
108) Jacksonville State Gamecocks
Toughest Game: @ Louisville
Easiest Game: @ Kennesaw State
S.O.S. Score: 13.29 (+0.08)
May Rank: 109 (+1)
109) UNLV Rebels
Toughest Game: @ Kansas
Easiest Game: vs. Utah Tech
S.O.S. Score: 13.17 (-0.25)
May Rank: 107 (-2)
110) Troy Trojans
Toughest Game: @ Memphis
Easiest Game: vs. Nevada
S.O.S. Score: 13.04 (+0.33)
May Rank: 114 (+4)
111) San Diego State Aztecs
Toughest Game: @ Boise State
Easiest Game: vs. Texas A&M-Commerce
S.O.S. Score: 13.00 (-0.46)
May Rank: 106 (-5)
112) Tulsa Golden Hurricane
Toughest Game: vs. Oklahoma State
Easiest Game: Northwestern State
S.O.S. Score: 12.96 (+0.19)
May Rank: 112 (-)
T112) Toledo Rockets
Toughest Game: @ Western Kentucky
Easiest Game: vs. Duquesne
S.O.S. Score: 12.96 (+0.50)
May Rank: 118 (+6)
114) New Mexico State Aggies
Toughest Game: @ Texas A&M
Easiest Game: vs. SE Missouri State
S.O.S. Score: 12.83 (+0.20)
May Rank: 115 (+1)
115) San Jose State Spartans
Toughest Game: @ Oregon State
Easiest Game: vs. Kennesaw State
S.O.S. Score: 12.67 (-0.08)
May Rank: 113 (-2)
116) Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns
Toughest Game: vs. App State
Easiest Game: vs. Grambling
S.O.S. Score: 12.54 (+0.50)
May Rank: 122 (+6)
117) Fresno State Bulldogs
Toughest Game: @ Michigan
Easiest Game: vs. San Jose State
S.O.S. Score: 12.46 (-0.33)
May Rank: 111 (-6)
118) Wyoming Cowboys
Toughest Game: vs. Boise State
Easiest Game: vs. Idaho
S.O.S. Score: 12.38 (+0.06)
May Rank: 121 (+3)
119) JMU Dukes
Toughest Game: @ App State
Easiest Game: vs. Gardner-Webb
S.O.S. Score: 12.29 (-0.04)
May Rank: 120 (+1)
120) Eastern Michigan Eagles
Toughest Game: @ Washington
Easiest Game: vs. St. Francis (PA)
S.O.S. Score: 12.25 (-0.29)
May Rank: 117 (-3)
121) Ohio Bobcats
Toughest Game: @ Miami (OH)
Easiest Game: vs. Morgan State
S.O.S. Score: 12.21 (-0.33)
May Rank: 116 (-5)
122) Washington State Cougars
Toughest Game: @ Boise State
Easiest Game: vs. Portland State
S.O.S. Score: 12.21 (-0.25)
May Rank: 119 (-3)
123) Colorado State Rams
Toughest Game: @ Texas
Easiest Game: vs. Northern Colorado
S.O.S. Score: 11.83 (-0.38)
May Rank: 123 (-)
124) Kennesaw State Owls
Toughest Game: vs. Liberty
Easiest Game: vs. UT Martin
S.O.S. Score: 11.69 (+0.18)
May Rank: 127 (+3)
125) Army Black Knights
Toughest Game: vs. Notre Dame
Easiest Game: vs. Lehigh
S.O.S. Score: 11.54 (+0.25)
May Rank: 128 (+3)
126) Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
Toughest Game: @ NC State
Easiest Game: vs. Nicholls
S.O.S. Score: 11.50 (-0.25)
May Rank: 125 (-1)
127) Buffalo Bulls
Toughest Game: @ Missouri
Easiest Game: vs. Lafayette
S.O.S. Score: 1146 (-0.67)
May Rank: 124 (-3)
128) FIU Panthers
Toughest Game: @ Liberty
Easiest Game: vs. Monmouth
S.O.S. Score: 11.46 (+0.50)
May Rank: 131 (+3)
129) FAU Owls
Toughest Game: vs. USF
Easiest Game: vs. Wagner
S.O.S. Score: 11.38 (-0.38)
May Rank: 126 (-3)
130) Hawaii Rainbow Warriors
Toughest Game: vs. Boise State
Easiest Game: vs. Delaware State
S.O.S. Score: 10.92 (-0.04)
May Rank: 129 (-1)
131) Texas State Bobcats
Toughest Game: vs. Louisiana
Easiest Game: vs. Lamar
S.O.S. Score: 10.50 (-0.33)
May Rank: 130 (-1)
132) Liberty Flames
Toughest Game: @ App State
Easiest Game: vs. Campbell
S.O.S. Score: 10.42 (+0.13)
May Rank: 132 (-)
133) Air Force Falcons
Toughest Game: vs. Oregon State
Easiest Game: @ New Mexico
S.O.S. Score: 9.96 (+0.13)
May Rank: 134 (+1)
134) UConn Huskies
Toughest Game: @ Maryland
Easiest Game: vs. Merrimack
S.O.S. Score: 9.83 (-0.08)
May Rank: 133 (-1)
2024 ACC Strength of Schedule
- 1) Georgia Tech
- 2) Florida State
- 3) Clemson
- 4) Wake Forest
- 5) Stanford
- 6) Duke
- 7) Boston College
- 8) Virginia
- 9) Louisville
- 10) Miami (FL)
- 11) Cal
- 12) Syracuse
- 13) North Carolina
- 14) Virginia Tech
- 15) Pittsburgh
- 16) NC State
- 17) SMU
2024 Big Ten Strength of Schedule
- 1) Purdue
- 2) USC
- 3) UCLA
- 4) Michigan
- 5) Wisconsin
- 6) Illinois
- 7) Washington
- 8) Oregon
- 9) Northwestern
- 10) Ohio State
- 11) Michigan State
- 12) Minnesota
- 13) Penn State
- 14) Maryland
- 15) Iowa
- 16) Nebraska
- 17) Indiana
- 18) Rutgers
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2024 Big 12 Strength of Schedule
- 1) Houston
- 2) Colorado
- 3) Arizona State
- 4) West Virginia
- 5) BYU
- 6) TCU
- 7) Kansas State
- 8) Baylor
- 9) Texas Tech
- 10) Utah
- 11) Iowa State
- 12) Oklahoma State
- 13) UCF
- 14) Cincinnati
- 15) Kansas
- 16) Arizona
2024 Pac-12 Strength of Schedule
- 1) Oregon State
- 2) Washington State
2024 SEC Strength of Schedule
- 1) Florida
- 2) Oklahoma
- 3) Alabama
- 4) Vanderbilt
- 5) Arkansas
- 6) Mississippi State
- 7) South Carolina
- 8) Georgia
- 9) Kentucky
- 10) Texas A&M
- 11) LSU
- 12) Texas
- 13) Auburn
- 14) Ole Miss
- 15) Tennessee
- 16) Missouri
2024 AAC Strength of Schedule
- 1) Tulane
- 2) USF
- 3) Memphis
- 4) Navy
- 5) Charlotte
- 6) Temple
- 7) UTSA
- 8) Rice
- 9) UAB
- 10) North Texas
- 11) ECU
- 12) Tulsa
- 13) Army
- 14) FAU
2024 Conference USA Strength of Schedule
- 1) Middle Tennessee
- 2) UTEP
- 3) Western Kentucky
- 4) Sam Houston
- 5) Jacksonville State
- 6) New Mexico State
- 7) Kennesaw State
- 8) Louisiana Tech
- 9) FIU
- 10) Liberty
2024 MAC Strength of Schedule
- 1) Kent State
- 2) Akron
- 3) Northern Illinois
- 4) Ball State
- 5) Miami (OH)
- 6) Bowling Green
- 7) Western Michigan
- 8) Central Michigan
- 9) Toledo
- 10) Eastern Michigan
- 11) Ohio
- 12) Buffalo
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2024 Mountain West Strength of Schedule
- 1) Nevada
- 2) Utah State
- 3) New Mexico
- 4) Boise State
- 5) UNLV
- 6) San Diego State
- 7) San Jose State
- 8) Fresno State
- 9) Wyoming
- 10) Colorado State
- 11) Hawaii
- 12) Air Force
2024 Sun Belt Strength of Schedule
- 1) ODU
- 2) Georgia Southern
- 3) South Alabama
- 4) Appalachian State
- 5) Marshall
- 6) Southern Miss
- 7) UL-Monroe
- 8) Georgia State
- 9) Coastal Carolina
- 10) Arkansas State
- 11) Troy
- 12) Louisiana
- 13) JMU
- 14) Texas State
2025 Independent Strength of Schedule
- 1) Notre Dame
- 2) UMass
- 3) UConn
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