College football schedule metrics vastly differ this time of year with most relying on perception, last season’s results or lookahead predictions to determine toughness. On the other side of the coin, there are several Power Four programs blessed with favorable schedules that could lead to momentum-changing seasons near the top of their respective conferences.
These “easiest schedule rankings” are heavily influenced by our cumulative post-spring top 25 rankings, which averaged out various polls from CBS Sports, ESPN, Sporting News, Athlon Sports, Fox Sports and Bleacher Report. Our strength of schedule rankings for each conference were also considered.
Schedule favorability matters for a program trying to get to the playoff and these teams — like Indiana and SMU demonstrated last season — are potentially equipped to win with slates conducive to success in 2025.
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Number of opponents in cumulative top 25: 3
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Author : Brad Crawford
Publish date : 2025-08-06 13:45:00
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