College Football Week 4 Schedule Strengths

Four weeks into the college football season, we can begin to see how teams' schedules compare.  At this point, it is heavily influenced by out of conference schedules and teams in tough conferences may not show up with a difficult schedule yet but will in the end.

Here are the full week 4 ratings, but sorted by schedule strength.

As if often the case, teams with losing records show up at the top as they've played tough teams and lost,  but we see Notre Dame as having played the toughest schedule thus far of any non-losing team, but close behind Oklahoma State, LSU, and Oklahoma being undefeated teams that have played tough schedules.  This is why they are ranked #6, #1, and #7 in the rankings.  Boise State has also played the #12 schedule thus far which is needed for them as their conference schedule will drag them down some.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are a bunch of undefeated teams that have played very weak schedules.  This includes top-25 teams Florida (#105), Wisconsin (#100), Baylor (#95), South Florida (#92), Georgia Tech (#88), and Virginia Tech (#81).  This isn't saying these teams aren't good, my computer has them all in the top-27, but they haven't been consistently tested yet.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Tulsa	70.184	1-3	80.156
2	Arizona	70.272	1-3	77.872
3	Florida Atlantic	54.032	0-3	76.954
4	Notre Dame	79.515	2-2	76.857
5	Nevada	71.280	1-2	76.118
6	Oklahoma St	86.775	4-0	72.678
7	LSU	93.117	4-0	72.331
8	Oklahoma	84.799	3-0	71.959
9	Marshall	59.585	1-3	71.635
10	North Texas	53.428	1-3	71.342
11	Oregon	86.863	3-1	71.194
12	Boise St	86.821	3-0	70.919
13	Troy	61.933	1-2	70.874
14	Rice	57.702	1-2	70.796
15	Kent St	55.810	1-3	70.698
16	Maryland	67.267	1-2	70.409
17	San Jose St	61.428	1-3	70.080
18	Utah	76.590	2-1	69.940
19	UNLV	58.709	1-3	69.809
20	Toledo	68.006	1-3	69.788
21	Brigham Young	67.061	2-2	69.713
22	Georgia	74.568	2-2	69.552
23	Mississippi St	70.379	2-2	69.337
24	South Carolina	78.808	4-0	68.660
25	Penn State	77.652	3-1	68.580
26	Iowa St	70.402	3-0	68.191
27	Middle Tennessee St	60.029	0-3	68.176
28	Miami FL	70.100	1-2	67.918
29	Oregon St	59.510	0-3	67.875
30	Tennessee	76.364	2-1	67.875
31	Missouri	74.596	2-2	67.752
32	Texas A&M	82.116	2-1	67.478
33	Southern Cal	72.685	3-1	67.426
34	Arizona St	80.020	3-1	67.359
35	Louisiana-Monroe	56.272	1-3	67.341
36	Army	58.970	1-3	66.931
37	Alabama-Birmingham	49.156	0-3	66.750
38	Miami OH	56.068	0-3	66.633
39	East Carolina	60.514	1-2	66.618
40	Michigan	82.422	4-0	66.486
41	Kansas	64.478	2-1	66.444
42	Pittsburgh	71.197	2-2	66.352
43	West Virginia	74.806	3-1	66.073
44	San Diego St	71.984	3-1	65.914
45	Stanford	88.016	3-0	65.841
46	UTEP	60.716	2-2	65.822
47	UCLA	65.394	2-2	65.625
48	Washington	68.438	3-1	65.392
49	North Carolina	72.062	3-1	65.242
50	Fresno St	64.105	2-2	65.197
51	Northern Illinois	68.039	2-2	65.018
52	Colorado	60.066	1-3	64.943
53	Louisiana-Lafayette	68.138	3-1	64.865
54	Mississippi	61.261	1-3	64.763
55	Arkansas St	66.292	2-2	64.604
56	Auburn	69.966	3-1	64.558
57	Clemson	76.035	4-0	64.411
58	Idaho	55.536	1-3	64.127
59	Louisiana Tech	63.612	1-3	64.087
60	Central Michigan	53.483	1-3	64.039
61	Duke	62.822	2-2	63.941
62	Western Michigan	70.367	2-2	63.785
63	Ball St	65.116	3-1	63.773
64	Illinois	76.497	4-0	63.754
65	Buffalo	59.203	1-3	63.656
66	Nebraska	80.059	4-0	63.641
67	Alabama	91.709	4-0	63.613
68	Arkansas	73.560	3-1	63.576
69	Wyoming	65.504	3-1	63.556
70	TCU	78.860	3-1	63.225
71	New Mexico	50.555	0-4	63.113
72	Vanderbilt	68.681	3-1	62.497
73	Texas	73.541	3-0	62.386
74	SMU	69.124	3-1	61.940
75	Navy	73.876	2-1	61.890
76	New Mexico St	55.631	1-3	61.888
77	Syracuse	62.958	3-1	61.882
78	Florida Int'l	68.139	3-1	61.804
79	Iowa	72.676	3-1	61.701
80	Minnesota	56.136	1-3	61.511
81	Virginia Tech	77.892	4-0	61.477
82	Akron	48.532	1-3	61.438
83	Western Kentucky	46.516	0-3	61.428
84	Utah St	63.786	1-2	61.397
85	Eastern Michigan	56.076	2-2	61.349
86	Florida St	74.098	2-2	61.146
87	Memphis	50.652	1-3	60.986
88	Georgia Tech	78.389	4-0	60.689
89	Virginia	61.920	2-2	60.471
90	Connecticut	68.196	2-2	60.442
91	California	69.071	3-1	60.363
92	South Florida	82.418	4-0	60.233
93	Boston College	59.312	1-3	60.194
94	Ohio State	68.482	3-1	60.176
95	Baylor	74.641	3-0	59.896
96	Hawaii	62.445	2-2	59.718
97	Temple	75.322	3-1	59.677
98	North Carolina St	62.468	2-2	59.214
99	Michigan St	71.392	3-1	59.166
100	Wisconsin	84.384	4-0	59.147
101	Kentucky	59.194	2-2	58.924
102	Louisville	64.191	2-1	58.731
103	Rutgers	71.620	2-1	58.481
104	Washington St	67.027	2-1	58.270
105	Florida	80.505	4-0	58.186
106	Kansas St	71.003	3-0	58.096
107	Southern Miss	64.573	3-1	57.880
108	Ohio U.	69.270	3-1	57.528
109	Texas Tech	71.062	3-0	57.462
110	Air Force	68.523	2-1	57.396
111	Tulane	56.230	2-2	57.141
112	Central Florida	67.459	2-2	56.997
113	Indiana	57.501	1-3	56.666
114	Cincinnati	70.012	3-1	56.379
115	Northwestern	62.584	2-1	56.229
116	Houston	68.022	4-0	55.891
117	Wake Forest	62.789	2-1	55.234
118	Bowling Green	66.165	3-1	53.592
119	Colorado St	56.776	3-1	53.525
120	Purdue	61.205	2-1	53.194