After Week 11 SoS rankings.

Using the FEI ELS metric. Pretty much the only SoS I consider valid since it's not based on averages.

Strength of schedule ratings represent the number of losses a team two standard deviations above average would expect to have against the schedule of opponents (ELS),

Only for games played thus far, doesn't count future games. Listed in order by overall rank, expected losses to the right.

3. Georgia 1.98
6. Oklahoma 1.88
7. Florida 1.87
8. LSU 1.69
8. Kentucky 1.69
10. USC 1.65
11. Miss St 1.63
12. Vandy 1.58
13. Alabama 1.42
17. Arkansas 1.30
24. Ole Miss 1.10
26. Texas A&M 1.06
39. Missouri .84
42. Auburn .73
45. Tennessee .72
46. Texas .71


Non SEC top 10 teams:

15. Ohio St 1.34
25. Penn St 1.09
27. Oregon 1.06

Teams that are probably only ranked in the top10 because they played an easy schedule:

68. Notre Dame .46
78. BYU .42
107. Indiana .23


My thoughts:

Auburn is fricking terrible. To have that record on that schedule is just fricking insane. Meanwhile, all anyone focuses on is Napier who has played an extremely more difficult schedule and has a better record. I don't get it.

33% of the top 10 are mostly there because they played weak as hell schedules(less than .50 expected losses), all of which are non SEC schools. Really you could make an argument for 50% if you included Tennessee and Texas as anyone below 1 at this point is kind of easy. Still, Texas/Tennessee's schedule is notably harder than the other 3 so I didn't include them.

The SEC makes up 60% of the 10 toughest schedules as well as 60% of the 15 toughest schedules. No other conference comes close. Even the worst SEC schedule is in the top50.

FEI Ratings