ARGH 2002 Final Preseason Schedule Ratings!

The following are the pre-season ARGH strength of schedule ratings for 2002. These rankings are based on the Preseason 2002 ARGH Power Ratings.

There are two separate 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	0.634
2	Missouri	0.619
3	Florida St.	0.612
4	Texas Tech	0.598
5	Stanford	0.597
6	Michigan	0.595
7	Iowa St.	0.591
8	UCLA	0.589
9	Florida	0.589
10	Alabama	0.587
11	Colorado	0.586
12	Mississippi St.	0.584
13	North Carolina	0.581
14	West Virginia	0.578
15	Oklahoma	0.578
16	Texas	0.577
17	Miami, Florida	0.576
18	Oklahoma St.	0.574
19	Texas A&M	0.572
20	Kentucky	0.572
21	Virginia	0.566
22	Baylor	0.565
23	Vanderbilt	0.564
24	Penn State	0.563
25	Pittsburgh	0.562
26	Notre Dame	0.562
27	Wisconsin	0.560
28	Syracuse	0.560
29	Virginia Tech	0.556
30	South Carolina	0.554
31	Rutgers	0.554
32	Temple	0.552
33	Arkansas	0.552
34	Duke	0.551
35	Auburn	0.550
36	Arizona	0.549
37	Clemson	0.549
38	Mississippi	0.547
39	Nebraska	0.546
40	Tennessee	0.546
41	Arizona St.	0.546
42	Oregon St.	0.544
43	Ohio St.	0.541
44	Oregon	0.539
45	California	0.537
46	Louisiana St.	0.535
47	Kansas	0.534
48	Georgia	0.534
49	Washington	0.533
50	Purdue	0.531
51	Iowa	0.528
52	Washington St.	0.527
53	Georgia Tech	0.525
54	Wake Forest	0.525
55	Indiana	0.524
56	Illinois	0.522
57	Colorado St.	0.512
58	Boston College	0.504
59	San Diego St.	0.504
60	Michigan St.	0.495
61	Northwestern	0.492
62	Minnesota	0.490
63	Cincinnati	0.490
64	Wyoming	0.490
65	Kansas St.	0.489
66	Southern Mississippi	0.489
67	Troy State	0.487
68	Louisiana Tech	0.487
69	Maryland	0.482
70	San Jose St.	0.481
71	North Carolina St.	0.475
72	Houston	0.471
73	AL-Birmingham	0.467
74	Memphis	0.462
75	Utah	0.461
76	Nevada	0.461
77	Miami, Ohio	0.457
78	Utah St.	0.456
79	South Florida	0.455
80	Louisville	0.453
81	Fresno St.	0.452
82	East Carolina	0.452
83	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.451
84	Brigham Young	0.448
85	New Mexico	0.434
86	Western Michigan	0.434
87	Texas Christian	0.432
88	Southern Methodist	0.426
89	Connecticut	0.424
90	LA-Lafayette	0.424
91	Tulsa	0.424
92	Central Florida	0.419
93	Ohio	0.417
94	North Texas	0.416
95	Idaho	0.415
96	Central Michigan	0.415
97	Navy	0.415
98	Toledo	0.412
99	Northern Illinois	0.408
100	Army	0.406
101	Air Force	0.406
102	Ball St.	0.404
103	Akron	0.404
104	LA-Monroe	0.401
105	Hawaii	0.401
106	Tulane	0.400
107	Eastern Michigan	0.398
108	New Mexico St.	0.395
109	Rice	0.394
110	Texas-El Paso	0.394
111	Boise State	0.393
112	Kent	0.381
113	Buffalo	0.381
114	Arkansas St.	0.368
115	Bowling Green	0.366
116	Marshall	0.365
117	Middle Tennessee St.	0.365

Non-Conference Schedule
Rank	Team	Rating
1	Florida St.	0.735
2	Southern California	0.692
3	Louisiana Tech	0.678
4	Colorado St.	0.634
5	North Carolina	0.612
6	Miami, Ohio	0.609
7	Notre Dame	0.598
8	San Jose St.	0.589
9	Florida	0.579
10	Stanford	0.575
11	North Texas	0.574
12	Fresno St.	0.573
13	Western Michigan	0.572
14	Michigan	0.570
15	Miami, Florida	0.565
16	Virginia	0.559
17	Utah	0.559
18	San Diego St.	0.556
19	Colorado	0.550
20	LA-Lafayette	0.549
21	Idaho	0.546
22	Nevada	0.545
23	Alabama	0.544
24	UCLA	0.539
25	Wyoming	0.534
26	Southern Mississippi	0.532
27	Clemson	0.531
28	Virginia Tech	0.519
29	Texas Tech	0.515
30	Akron	0.510
31	Penn State	0.509
32	Pittsburgh	0.502
33	Troy State	0.500
34	Central Florida	0.497
35	LA-Monroe	0.497
36	Cincinnati	0.497
37	Brigham Young	0.497
38	Louisville	0.496
39	Southern Methodist	0.495
40	New Mexico St.	0.495
41	AL-Birmingham	0.494
42	Syracuse	0.492
43	Wisconsin	0.489
44	Ohio	0.488
45	Texas A&M	0.487
46	Missouri	0.486
47	West Virginia	0.484
48	Tennessee	0.480
49	Ohio St.	0.477
50	Mississippi St.	0.477
51	Memphis	0.477
52	Middle Tennessee St.	0.473
53	Houston	0.470
54	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.469
55	South Carolina	0.467
56	Northern Illinois	0.466
57	East Carolina	0.460
58	Iowa St.	0.457
59	Kentucky	0.457
60	South Florida	0.455
61	Georgia Tech	0.454
62	Utah St.	0.453
63	Toledo	0.451
64	Temple	0.450
65	Connecticut	0.448
66	Duke	0.444
67	Marshall	0.443
68	Oklahoma	0.438
69	Arizona St.	0.437
70	Arizona	0.434
71	Iowa	0.434
72	Tulsa	0.433
73	Texas-El Paso	0.433
74	Arkansas St.	0.432
75	Oregon St.	0.431
76	Hawaii	0.429
77	Wake Forest	0.429
78	Eastern Michigan	0.428
79	Purdue	0.428
80	New Mexico	0.425
81	Central Michigan	0.424
82	Ball St.	0.422
83	Auburn	0.411
84	Navy	0.411
85	Nebraska	0.410
86	Illinois	0.409
87	Boise State	0.403
88	Rutgers	0.402
89	Texas	0.401
90	Oklahoma St.	0.398
91	Arkansas	0.394
92	Washington	0.390
93	Bowling Green	0.390
94	Mississippi	0.388
95	Louisiana St.	0.381
96	Oregon	0.377
97	Georgia	0.377
98	Washington St.	0.375
99	Indiana	0.375
100	Texas Christian	0.374
101	Vanderbilt	0.372
102	California	0.371
103	Boston College	0.367
104	Maryland	0.363
105	Air Force	0.355
106	Michigan St.	0.350
107	Kansas	0.344
108	Buffalo	0.343
109	Kent	0.341
110	Rice	0.339
111	North Carolina St.	0.332
112	Tulane	0.328
113	Baylor	0.324
114	Northwestern	0.299
115	Kansas St.	0.285
116	Army	0.249
117	Minnesota	0.244

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

Conference	Schedule Rating
WAC	.492
Sun Belt	.509
ACC	.495
Pac-10	.462
MAC	.456
Mountain West	.504
Big Ten	.417
Independents	.478
Conference USA	.438
Big East	.473
SEC	.444
Big Twelve	.425

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