ARGH 2001 Final Preseason Schedule Ratings!

The following are the pre-season ARGH strength of schedule ratings for 2001. These rankings are based on the Preseason 2001 ARGH Power Ratings

There are two seperate schedule rankings below:

The table on the left represents the rating and ranking of the school's overall schedule. Teams in good conferences will always rank higher on this list when overall schedules are ranked, simply because most of the games are against teams in a good conference. In general, a bad team will play a tougher schedule than a good team in the same conference.
The table on the right represents the ranking of the school's schedule against non-conference opponents. This ranking represents the part of the school's schedule that they had control over; in other words, a team with a tough non-conference schedule is willing to take a challenge, while a team with a weak non-conference schedule is probably eager to duck one. Independent teams' non-conference schedule ratings are based on games against teams that are not Division 1-A Independents.

Overall Schedule
Rank	Team	Rating
1	Southern California	0.630
2	Penn State	0.624
3	UCLA	0.616
4	Washington	0.613
5	Kentucky	0.610
6	Notre Dame	0.610
7	Syracuse	0.609
8	Alabama	0.605
9	Tennessee	0.604
10	Washington St.	0.602
11	Stanford	0.597
12	Illinois	0.594
13	Ohio St.	0.592
14	North Carolina	0.591
15	Auburn	0.590
16	Florida	0.589
17	California	0.584
18	Arizona	0.583
19	Michigan	0.580
20	Indiana	0.580
21	Oregon	0.580
22	Florida St.	0.578
23	South Carolina	0.576
24	Duke	0.571
25	Kansas	0.571
26	Purdue	0.569
27	Michigan St.	0.568
28	Miami, Florida	0.566
29	Virginia	0.565
30	Colorado	0.564
31	Arizona St.	0.561
32	Minnesota	0.560
33	Georgia	0.558
34	Oregon St.	0.558
35	West Virginia	0.556
36	Louisiana St.	0.556
37	Arkansas	0.555
38	Kansas St.	0.554
39	Boston College	0.553
40	Wisconsin	0.550
41	Baylor	0.547
42	Mississippi St.	0.544
43	Pittsburgh	0.542
44	Texas Tech	0.542
45	Iowa	0.539
46	Oklahoma St.	0.537
47	Vanderbilt	0.534
48	Wake Forest	0.531
49	Texas A&M	0.527
50	Northwestern	0.520
51	Missouri	0.519
52	Navy	0.518
53	Nebraska	0.518
54	North Carolina St.	0.514
55	Virginia Tech	0.512
56	Temple	0.511
57	Clemson	0.510
58	Rutgers	0.509
59	Houston	0.507
60	San Jose St.	0.507
61	Iowa St.	0.505
62	Mississippi	0.501
63	Memphis	0.499
64	Georgia Tech	0.495
65	Oklahoma	0.494
66	Texas	0.492
67	Tulane	0.491
68	Maryland	0.489
69	Texas Christian	0.489
70	Southern Mississippi	0.485
71	Louisiana Tech	0.485
72	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.484
73	Fresno St.	0.480
74	Colorado St.	0.478
75	East Carolina	0.474
76	Central Florida	0.472
77	AL-Birmingham	0.471
78	Louisville	0.471
79	Nevada	0.461
80	Utah	0.459
81	Southern Methodist	0.459
82	Brigham Young	0.455
83	Bowling Green	0.455
84	San Diego St.	0.451
85	Wyoming	0.450
86	Boise State	0.447
87	New Mexico St.	0.446
88	Tulsa	0.442
89	Western Michigan	0.440
90	Cincinnati	0.439
91	Air Force	0.436
92	Akron	0.430
93	Utah St.	0.427
94	Army	0.427
95	Miami, Ohio	0.426
96	Central Michigan	0.426
97	Rice	0.426
98	Troy State	0.423
99	New Mexico	0.422
100	Texas-El Paso	0.421
101	North Texas	0.406
102	Ohio	0.403
103	Kent	0.399
104	Toledo	0.393
105	Northern Illinois	0.392
106	Ball St.	0.390
107	LA-Lafayette	0.384
108	Marshall	0.381
109	Idaho	0.379
110	Connecticut	0.375
111	Hawaii	0.375
112	Eastern Michigan	0.370
113	LA-Monroe	0.354
114	South Florida	0.348
115	Middle Tennessee St.	0.344
116	Buffalo	0.332
117	Arkansas St.	0.328

Non-Conference Schedule
Rank	Team	Rating
1	Florida St.	0.720
2	San Jose St.	0.656
3	Notre Dame	0.652
4	North Carolina	0.646
5	Penn State	0.639
6	Akron	0.629
7	New Mexico St.	0.629
8	Syracuse	0.627
9	Louisiana Tech	0.621
10	Washington	0.617
11	Western Michigan	0.610
12	Fresno St.	0.601
13	Southern California	0.593
14	Bowling Green	0.580
15	Miami, Florida	0.577
16	Tennessee	0.568
17	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.567
18	UCLA	0.564
19	North Texas	0.557
20	Virginia	0.549
21	Stanford	0.548
22	Colorado St.	0.548
23	Marshall	0.546
24	AL-Birmingham	0.544
25	Alabama	0.540
26	Houston	0.539
27	Ohio	0.537
28	Miami, Ohio	0.534
29	Illinois	0.528
30	Colorado	0.525
31	Southern Methodist	0.521
32	Idaho	0.520
33	Nevada	0.517
34	Ohio St.	0.516
35	Duke	0.516
36	Michigan	0.513
37	LA-Lafayette	0.507
38	San Diego St.	0.497
39	Navy	0.494
40	Oregon	0.492
41	Washington St.	0.492
42	Memphis	0.489
43	Indiana	0.485
44	Kentucky	0.484
45	Florida	0.482
46	Boston College	0.480
47	Purdue	0.479
48	Central Florida	0.475
49	Michigan St.	0.469
50	Utah	0.469
51	Boise State	0.468
52	Wisconsin	0.466
53	Utah St.	0.465
54	West Virginia	0.465
55	Brigham Young	0.464
56	Auburn	0.464
57	East Carolina	0.460
58	Southern Mississippi	0.460
59	Middle Tennessee St.	0.458
60	Texas-El Paso	0.452
61	Central Michigan	0.451
62	Nebraska	0.451
63	Texas Christian	0.446
64	Tulsa	0.446
65	Kansas St.	0.444
66	LA-Monroe	0.443
67	Kent	0.442
68	Rice	0.442
69	Oklahoma St.	0.441
70	Arizona	0.441
71	Wake Forest	0.435
72	Georgia Tech	0.432
73	Louisville	0.432
74	North Carolina St.	0.430
75	Wyoming	0.429
76	California	0.424
77	Troy State	0.423
78	Tulane	0.422
79	Georgia	0.421
80	Pittsburgh	0.420
81	Clemson	0.418
82	Ball St.	0.417
83	South Carolina	0.417
84	Oregon St.	0.402
85	Missouri	0.399
86	Northern Illinois	0.398
87	Virginia Tech	0.397
88	Texas A&M	0.397
89	Iowa St.	0.396
90	Air Force	0.391
91	Connecticut	0.388
92	New Mexico	0.388
93	Toledo	0.386
94	Texas	0.381
95	Baylor	0.374
96	Texas Tech	0.374
97	Arkansas St.	0.374
98	South Florida	0.363
99	Cincinnati	0.361
100	Kansas	0.353
101	Army	0.351
102	Minnesota	0.345
103	Northwestern	0.345
104	Oklahoma	0.344
105	Mississippi St.	0.344
106	Arizona St.	0.341
107	Temple	0.337
108	Louisiana St.	0.336
109	Arkansas	0.320
110	Iowa	0.319
111	Eastern Michigan	0.313
112	Hawaii	0.310
113	Maryland	0.294
114	Vanderbilt	0.292
115	Buffalo	0.283
116	Rutgers	0.271
117	Mississippi	0.250

The following are the preseason schedule ratings for the various conferences' out-of-conference schedules:

Conference	Schedule Rating
WAC	.503
Sun Belt	.498
ACC	.493
Pac-10	.491
MAC	.471
Mountain West	.469
Big Ten	.464
Independents	.459
Conference USA	.450
Big East	.447
SEC	.410
Big Twelve	.406

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