ARGH 2003 Final Preseason Schedule Ratings!

The following are the pre-season ARGH strength of schedule ratings for 2003. These rankings are based on the Preseason 2003 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	Florida St.	0.696
2	Georgia Tech	0.663
3	Notre Dame	0.640
4	North Carolina	0.639
5	Iowa	0.638
6	Alabama	0.637
7	UCLA	0.636
8	Wake Forest	0.635
9	Stanford	0.632
10	Colorado	0.632
11	Purdue	0.630
12	California	0.628
13	Arizona	0.624
14	Texas Tech	0.623
15	Northwestern	0.619
16	Washington St.	0.619
17	North Carolina St.	0.614
18	Wisconsin	0.613
19	Southern California	0.613
20	Oklahoma	0.609
21	Ohio St.	0.607
22	Clemson	0.606
23	Virginia	0.605
24	Florida	0.603
25	Tennessee	0.603
26	Auburn	0.599
27	Michigan St.	0.598
28	Indiana	0.598
29	South Carolina	0.596
30	Texas A&M	0.593
31	Michigan	0.593
32	Duke	0.591
33	Georgia	0.590
34	Iowa St.	0.590
35	Penn State	0.586
36	Illinois	0.585
37	Syracuse	0.584
38	Mississippi St.	0.580
39	Arkansas	0.576
40	Texas	0.576
41	Oregon	0.574
42	West Virginia	0.573
43	Arizona St.	0.570
44	Miami, Florida	0.568
45	Nebraska	0.566
46	Louisiana St.	0.566
47	Washington	0.565
48	Boston College	0.564
49	Missouri	0.561
50	Vanderbilt	0.561
51	Baylor	0.558
52	Temple	0.554
53	Maryland	0.553
54	Mississippi	0.550
55	Oregon St.	0.549
56	Pittsburgh	0.540
57	Kentucky	0.539
58	Virginia Tech	0.522
59	Brigham Young	0.521
60	Kansas	0.510
61	Rutgers	0.502
62	Oklahoma St.	0.490
63	Minnesota	0.485
64	Kansas St.	0.478
65	East Carolina	0.470
66	Utah	0.468
67	Troy State	0.457
68	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.454
69	Fresno St.	0.445
70	Colorado St.	0.435
71	Southern Mississippi	0.433
72	Wyoming	0.432
73	San Diego St.	0.431
74	Louisiana Tech	0.431
75	Miami, Ohio	0.421
76	Ball St.	0.419
77	Kent	0.417
78	New Mexico	0.415
79	AL-Birmingham	0.412
80	Ohio	0.410
81	Memphis	0.405
82	New Mexico St.	0.403
83	Cincinnati	0.402
84	Nevada	0.402
85	Marshall	0.401
86	Connecticut	0.400
87	Southern Methodist	0.397
88	Army	0.395
89	Houston	0.393
90	Northern Illinois	0.391
91	Buffalo	0.391
92	Tulane	0.390
93	Western Michigan	0.389
94	Utah St.	0.389
95	LA-Lafayette	0.387
96	San Jose St.	0.387
97	Bowling Green	0.387
98	Rice	0.385
99	Central Florida	0.384
100	Tulsa	0.379
101	Hawaii	0.376
102	South Florida	0.373
103	LA-Monroe	0.372
104	Toledo	0.372
105	Air Force	0.372
106	Central Michigan	0.372
107	Texas Christian	0.372
108	Eastern Michigan	0.371
109	Louisville	0.370
110	North Texas	0.369
111	Middle Tennessee St.	0.368
112	Texas-El Paso	0.355
113	Idaho	0.350
114	Boise State	0.348
115	Arkansas St.	0.334
116	Akron	0.329
117	Navy	0.316

Non-Conference Schedule
Rank	Team	Rating
1	Florida St.	0.770
2	Notre Dame	0.681
3	Colorado	0.677
4	East Carolina	0.655
5	Brigham Young	0.654
6	UCLA	0.640
7	Southern California	0.634
8	Georgia Tech	0.628
9	New Mexico St.	0.618
10	Louisiana Tech	0.612
11	Fresno St.	0.611
12	Miami, Florida	0.597
13	Tennessee	0.585
14	California	0.580
15	Miami, Ohio	0.572
16	North Carolina	0.567
17	Northern Illinois	0.567
18	Oklahoma	0.567
19	Texas Tech	0.562
20	Syracuse	0.556
21	Ball St.	0.553
22	Washington St.	0.548
23	Stanford	0.545
24	Central Florida	0.545
25	Purdue	0.543
26	West Virginia	0.541
27	North Texas	0.539
28	Alabama	0.539
29	Ohio St.	0.534
30	Arizona	0.532
31	Texas A&M	0.529
32	Oregon	0.521
33	Boston College	0.518
34	Wake Forest	0.514
35	Southern Methodist	0.512
36	Southern Mississippi	0.512
37	Marshall	0.509
38	North Carolina St.	0.508
39	Florida	0.508
40	San Jose St.	0.505
41	Georgia	0.501
42	Bowling Green	0.500
43	Utah	0.495
44	Kent	0.492
45	Virginia	0.489
46	LA-Monroe	0.488
47	Utah St.	0.487
48	Iowa	0.486
49	Michigan	0.485
50	Illinois	0.484
51	Wisconsin	0.483
52	AL-Birmingham	0.482
53	Middle Tennessee St.	0.479
54	Pittsburgh	0.478
55	Ohio	0.476
56	Nevada	0.475
57	Rice	0.473
58	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.467
59	Western Michigan	0.462
60	Penn State	0.460
61	Virginia Tech	0.459
62	Colorado St.	0.457
63	Troy State	0.457
64	Tulsa	0.456
65	Arizona St.	0.455
66	Auburn	0.454
67	South Carolina	0.453
68	Clemson	0.452
69	Northwestern	0.451
70	Toledo	0.450
71	Temple	0.450
72	LA-Lafayette	0.449
73	Idaho	0.446
74	Washington	0.439
75	Tulane	0.437
76	Hawaii	0.436
77	Arkansas	0.430
78	Houston	0.427
79	Indiana	0.419
80	Mississippi St.	0.418
81	San Diego St.	0.417
82	New Mexico	0.413
83	Texas	0.411
84	Nebraska	0.401
85	Connecticut	0.400
86	Michigan St.	0.396
87	Cincinnati	0.394
88	Wyoming	0.392
89	Memphis	0.388
90	Duke	0.388
91	Oregon St.	0.383
92	Louisville	0.382
93	Iowa St.	0.380
94	Arkansas St.	0.373
95	Buffalo	0.372
96	Missouri	0.371
97	Boise State	0.361
98	Army	0.361
99	Akron	0.358
100	Vanderbilt	0.357
101	Mississippi	0.357
102	Maryland	0.346
103	Central Michigan	0.344
104	South Florida	0.342
105	Texas-El Paso	0.335
106	Texas Christian	0.333
107	Eastern Michigan	0.328
108	Kentucky	0.314
109	Baylor	0.311
110	Rutgers	0.301
111	Louisiana St.	0.294
112	Kansas St.	0.293
113	Kansas	0.283
114	Air Force	0.281
115	Navy	0.272
116	Oklahoma St.	0.200
117	Minnesota	0.189

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

Conference	Schedule Rating
Pac-10	.528
ACC	.518
Big East	.488
Sun Belt	.485
WAC	.478
MAC	.466
Independents	.452
Big Ten	.448
Mountain West	.447
SEC	.434
Big Twelve	.415
Conference USA	.401

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