re: Who in the West has the toughest schedule?

I vote for Miss State.

When 60% of your league schedule is guaranteed to be the exact same-- 5 other teams in your division, every year, the difficulty of out of conference games plays not only the primary, but the overwhelming difference for all except extreme outlier strengths of schedules. Yes, someone might draw Georgia and a road game at Kentucky while someone else gets Vanderbilt and home against Florida, but a far more common case is a non-con schedule that is either one game loaded with a semi-marquee game, often at home and nobody else, or one without a bowl caliber opponent or a road or even a neutral site game. Playing multiple bowl teams out of conference is pretty much what provides differentiation, almost all of the time.

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A hard schedule, in my mind, isn't primarily dictated by who has the hardest third hardest game. It's primarily dictated by who plays teams that would be expected to beat many or most P5 teams. Most mid majors that make bowls games don't fit that category. I'm not at all sure that either BYU or Cincy are among those who do.

To say it another way:

The average SEC team that plays, say, Troy 4 times is going to go 4-0. Troy is not bad, but it's not expected for them to win. A schedule playing Troy 4 times is easier than a schedule of Penn State, and then three little sisters of the blind.

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Lol Arkansas has one of the weakest of the group

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Yeah LSU just kills our SOS

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Georgia
Kentucky

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State has to play the West then #1 and #2 in the East

OOC be damned, State has the toughest schedule

Ole Piss has one of the easiest!

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Georgia Tech Troy Central AR Tulsa Vanderbilt Kentucky

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