College football is all about inequality. Teams don’t have equal resources, and conferences don’t have equal reputations. Parsing those differences is one of the most beloved aspects of the sport.
Strength of schedule is one place that college football fans have honed in on as being distinctively uneven from team to team.Â
Some teams will win 10 games without accomplishing much. Others will need a herculean struggle to get to six wins against a real gauntlet of opponents.Â
Every year, outlets will create a compilation ranking all 135 FBS teams’ schedule strength. That’s helpful context when trying to decide how impressive an individual team’s strength of record is.
Below is the current Strength of Schedule (SOS) rankings as compiled by ESPN at the start of the year.
As you might imagine, the list is very heavy on the SEC at the top. You can decide whether that’s because an SEC schedule really is that much harder than what everyone else plays, or … you know, other reasons.Â
College Football Strength of Schedule Rankings (2025)
| Strength of Schedule Rating | Team |
| 1 | Florida |
| 2 | Vanderbilt |
| 3 | Oklahoma |
| 4 | Texas |
| 5 | Arkansas |
| 6 | Mississippi State |
| 7 | Kentucky |
| 8 | Georgia |
| 9 | Texas A&M |
| 10 | Alabama |
| 11 | LSU |
| 12 | Wisconsin |
| 13 | South Carolina |
| 14 | Auburn |
| 15 | Tennessee |
| 16 | Ole Miss |
| 17 | Syracuse |
| 18 | Ohio State |
| 19 | UCLA |
| 20 | Missouri |
| 21 | Rutgers |
| 22 | Northwestern |
| 23 | Purdue |
| 24 | Florida State |
| 25 | Oregon |
| 26 | Minnesota |
| 27 | Penn State |
| 28 | USC |
| 29 | Michigan |
| 30 | Indiana |
| 31 | Washington |
| 32 | Iowa |
| 33 | Georgia Tech |
| 34 | Michigan State |
| 35 | Stanford |
| 36 | Louisville |
| 37 | Nebraska |
| 38 | Notre Dame |
| 39 | Oklahoma State |
| 40 | Clemson |
| 41 | Miami (FL) |
| 42 | NC State |
| 43 | SMU |
| 44 | Illinois |
| 45 | San Jose State |
| 46 | Charlotte |
| 47 | Boston College |
| 48 | TCU |
| 49 | UTEP |
| 50 | Baylor |
| 51 | Sam Houston |
| 52 | Virginia Tech |
| 53 | Pittsburgh |
| 54 | Marshall |
| 55 | West Virginia |
| 56 | Duke |
| 57 | UCF |
| 58 | Utah |
| 59 | Iowa State |
| 60 | Kansas |
| 61 | Maryland |
| 62 | Nevada |
| 63 | Cincinnati |
| 64 | Kansas State |
| 65 | Arizona |
| 66 | Ohio |
| 67 | Colorado |
| 68 | South Florida |
| 69 | Texas Tech |
| 70 | Cal |
| 71 | North Carolina |
| 72 | UL Monroe |
| 73 | Arizona State |
| 74 | BYU |
| 75 | Houston |
| 76 | Oregon State |
| 77 | Utah State |
| 78 | Washington State |
| 79 | Wake Forest |
| 80 | Florida International |
| 81 | Boise State |
| 82 | New Mexico |
| 83 | Kent State |
| 84 | Virginia |
| 85 | UTSA |
| 86 | Tulane |
| 87 | Navy |
| 88 | Georgia State |
| 89 | UAB |
| 90 | New Mexico |
| 91 | Troy |
| 92 | Army |
| 93 | Coastal Carolina |
| 94 | South Alabama |
| 95 | Temple |
| 96 | Missouri State |
| 97 | Western Kentucky |
| 98 | Ball State |
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