Week 6 SoS rankings

Using the FEI ELS metric.

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.

Listed in order by overall rank, expected losses to the right.

#1 Arkansas - 1.59
#3 Alabama - 1.24
#4 Oklahoma - 1.20
#5 Kentucky - 1.18
#8 Vanderbilt - 1.05
#9 Miss St - 1.04
#11 Texas - 1.03
#12 USC - 0.97
#17 Georgia - 0.83
#25 Florida - 0.73
#29 Texas A&M - 0.66
#38 LSU - 0.53
#41 Ole Miss - 0.48
#44 Tennessee - 9.45
#47 Missouri - 0.41
#50 Auburn - 0.37

Other notables

#33 Ohio St - 0.60
#52 UCLA - 0.37
#58 Indiana - 0.35
#74 BYU - 0.26
#87 Notre Dame - 0.21
#91 Miami - 0.19
#96 Texas Tech - 0.18

6 out of the top10 schedules are SEC.

Ohio St is the only non SEC team in the top15 to have a strength of schedule better than the easiest SEC schedule. And that's most likely because they played Texas. 11 SEC teams have played a tougher schedule.

Some of these are outright pathetic for week 6.

2026 FEI Ratings (through Week 6)