ARGH 1999 Final Preseason Schedule Ratings!

The following are the pre-season ARGH strength of schedule ratings for 1999. These are final, although I reserve the right to revise them should there be a coaching change between now and the beginning of the season. These rankings are based on the Preseason 1999 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 do better when overall schedules are ranked, simply because most of the games are against teams in a good conference. In general, a bad team will do better 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	Overall Schedule Rating
1	Michigan	0.632
2	Purdue	0.625
3	Alabama	0.624
4	Arizona St.	0.615
5	Washington	0.613
6	Michigan St.	0.612
7	Auburn	0.607
8	California	0.604
9	Northwestern	0.603
10	Clemson	0.600
11	Ohio St.	0.599
12	South Carolina	0.597
13	Penn State	0.596
14	Florida	0.595
15	Stanford	0.591
16	Kentucky	0.588
17	Illinois	0.587
18	Oregon	0.586
19	Iowa	0.584
20	Notre Dame	0.582
21	Nebraska	0.581
22	UCLA	0.581
23	Missouri	0.580
24	Oregon St.	0.573
25	Georgia	0.573
26	Texas	0.572
27	Southern California	0.569
28	Texas A&M	0.564
29	Tennessee	0.563
30	Oklahoma St.	0.562
31	Florida St.	0.562
32	Kansas	0.562
33	Indiana	0.560
34	Louisiana St.	0.558
35	Oklahoma	0.557
36	Arizona	0.554
37	Colorado	0.548
38	Vanderbilt	0.540
39	Temple	0.539
40	Texas Tech	0.532
41	Baylor	0.529
42	Iowa St.	0.528
43	Mississippi	0.528
44	Miami, Florida	0.527
45	Georgia Tech	0.527
46	Duke	0.527
47	Washington St.	0.523
48	Arkansas	0.520
49	Minnesota	0.520
50	Wisconsin	0.517
51	Wake Forest	0.516
52	Virginia	0.515
53	North Carolina	0.515
54	Maryland	0.510
55	North Carolina St.	0.506
56	Memphis	0.505
57	Mississippi St.	0.501
58	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.497
59	Pittsburgh	0.496
60	Brigham Young	0.494
61	Cincinnati	0.493
62	Syracuse	0.493
63	Louisiana Tech	0.492
64	Kansas St.	0.488
65	Rutgers	0.486
66	AL-Birmingham	0.482
67	Central Florida	0.481
68	Colorado St.	0.479
69	East Carolina	0.473
70	Southern Mississippi	0.473
71	Wyoming	0.472
72	Boston College	0.471
73	Houston	0.466
74	San Diego St.	0.466
75	Utah St.	0.460
76	West Virginia	0.458
77	SW Louisiana	0.456
78	Texas-El Paso	0.454
79	Tulane	0.451
80	Utah	0.450
81	North Texas	0.448
82	Army	0.441
83	Virginia Tech	0.438
84	San Jose St.	0.437
85	Eastern Michigan	0.432
86	Rice	0.430
87	Navy	0.428
88	Northeast Louisiana	0.425
89	New Mexico	0.424
90	Air Force	0.421
91	Ball St.	0.407
92	Arkansas St.	0.406
93	Fresno St.	0.405
94	Middle Tennessee St.	0.401
95	Ohio	0.398
96	New Mexico St.	0.398
97	Southern Methodist	0.398
98	Central Michigan	0.395
99	Idaho	0.394
100	Buffalo	0.393
101	Nevada	0.391
102	Tulsa	0.390
103	Hawaii	0.386
104	Western Michigan	0.380
105	Louisville	0.378
106	Bowling Green	0.377
107	Toledo	0.375
108	Boise State	0.367
109	Kent	0.367
110	Texas Christian	0.365
111	Akron	0.357
112	Northern Illinois	0.348
113	Miami, Ohio	0.344
114	Marshall	0.308

Non-conference Schedule Rank	Team	Non-conference Schedule Rating
1	Florida St.	0.698
2	Miami, Florida	0.630
3	Washington	0.620
4	Clemson	0.618
5	Louisiana Tech	0.614
6	Notre Dame	0.608
7	Eastern Michigan	0.608
8	Rice	0.584
9	Memphis	0.583
10	Florida	0.580
11	Ball St.	0.579
12	Texas-El Paso	0.569
13	California	0.566
14	Temple	0.554
15	San Jose St.	0.550
16	Central Michigan	0.549
17	Southern Mississippi	0.546
18	Utah St.	0.546
19	Ohio	0.545
20	Western Michigan	0.538
21	Syracuse	0.533
22	Alabama	0.532
23	Northwestern	0.529
24	Houston	0.527
25	AL-Birmingham	0.527
26	Arizona St.	0.522
27	East Carolina	0.522
28	Texas A&M	0.515
29	Brigham Young	0.513
30	Cincinnati	0.511
31	Michigan	0.509
32	Penn State	0.509
33	Michigan St.	0.509
34	Central Florida	0.508
35	SW Louisiana	0.507
36	UCLA	0.507
37	Stanford	0.506
38	North Texas	0.502
39	Fresno St.	0.499
40	Tennessee	0.493
41	Georgia	0.490
42	Oregon	0.490
43	Nebraska	0.490
44	Georgia Tech	0.482
45	Southern California	0.482
46	Southern Methodist	0.480
47	Texas	0.478
48	Colorado St.	0.478
49	Wyoming	0.478
50	Akron	0.476
51	Pittsburgh	0.474
52	Ohio St.	0.474
53	Tulane	0.472
54	Oklahoma	0.471
55	Tulsa	0.463
56	Colorado	0.462
57	Iowa	0.462
58	Kentucky	0.460
59	Purdue	0.458
60	Toledo	0.457
61	San Diego St.	0.457
62	Northeast Louisiana	0.455
63	Rutgers	0.453
64	South Carolina	0.447
65	Nevada-Las Vegas	0.444
66	Idaho	0.443
67	Illinois	0.437
68	West Virginia	0.435
69	Nevada	0.431
70	Texas Christian	0.429
71	Arizona	0.426
72	Kansas	0.424
73	Missouri	0.419
74	Virginia	0.417
75	Miami, Ohio	0.410
76	North Carolina	0.410
77	Navy	0.406
78	North Carolina St.	0.405
79	Indiana	0.403
80	Utah	0.402
81	Boston College	0.401
82	Buffalo	0.399
83	Hawaii	0.398
84	Mississippi	0.397
85	Duke	0.395
86	Virginia Tech	0.393
87	Arkansas St.	0.391
88	Middle Tennessee St.	0.390
89	New Mexico St.	0.388
90	Texas Tech	0.386
91	Northern Illinois	0.372
92	Oregon St.	0.371
93	Oklahoma St.	0.371
94	Army	0.366
95	Auburn	0.364
96	Louisville	0.356
97	Washington St.	0.351
98	Air Force	0.347
99	Boise State	0.340
100	Bowling Green	0.337
101	Wake Forest	0.327
102	Maryland	0.321
103	Louisiana St.	0.317
104	Mississippi St.	0.315
105	Kent	0.310
106	New Mexico	0.277
107	Vanderbilt	0.275
108	Arkansas	0.274
109	Baylor	0.262
110	Kansas St.	0.255
111	Marshall	0.249
112	Minnesota	0.241
113	Iowa St.	0.240
114	Wisconsin	0.203

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

Conference	Schedule Rating
Independents	.498
WAC	.496
Conference USA	.490
Big East	.484
Pac-10	.484
ACC	.453
MAC	.449
Big West	.434
Big Ten	.430
Mountain West	.424
SEC	.412
Big Twelve	.398

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