NCAAF Strength-of-Schedule Rankings

• See the college football strength-of-schedule rankings for all 136 FBS teams in 2025
• The Florida Gators have the toughest strength of schedule in the nation for the second straight season
• The Liberty Flames will play the easiest schedule in the country

The 2025 college football regular season begins with a revamped Week 0 on August 23rd and runs until Week 14 on November 29th. The charts and graphs below set out the strength-of-schedule rankings for all 136 FBS DI teams, up from 134 last year with the addition of Delaware and Missouri State.

Even more so than strength of schedule calculations in the NFL, SOS in college football should not be based too heavily on last season’s power ratings. There is far too much roster turnover from year to year. The calculations and rankings below factor in opponents’ efficiency ratings from last season plus how much production teams are losing, recent recruiting rankings, and major incoming transfers.

Use the rankings below in conjunction with the NCAAF win totals to find soft spots in the underbelly of the college football futures.

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2025 NCAAF Strength-of-Schedule Rankings

Notes on the SOS ratings:

• The toughest hypothetical schedule this year (12 games at Texas) would score 379.62.
• The toughest schedule a team could play against 12 different opponents would score 279.19.
• The toughest real schedule (Florida Gators) scores 133.789, which is 35.2% as tough as the toughest hypothetical schedule.
• The easiest Power Conference schedule belongs to the Virginia Cavaliers, which is 66th in the nation.
• The toughest Group of 5 schedule belongs to the South Florida (-44.58) which is 69th in the nation.
• The remaining “Pac 2” teams – Oregon State and Washington State – rank 74th and 71st, respectively
• The easiest hypothetical schedule against an FBS opponent (12 home games vs Kent State) would score -299.64.
• The easiest real schedule (Liberty Flames) scores -140.780, which is 46.98% as easy as the easiest hypothetical schedule.
• In theory, if FBS teams only played other FBS teams, the cumulative total of all the SOS scores would be zero. (All team scores are a certain percentage above or below the average of zero.) But in reality, the cumulative total of all the SOS scores is well below zero because of dozens of games against FCS teams, which rank well below average as a group.

ACC Strength-of-Schedule Rankings

Big Ten Strength-of-Schedule Rankings

Big 12 Strength-of-Schedule Rankings

SEC Strength-of-Schedule Rankings

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