Where does Oklahoma State football rank in Big 12 strength of schedule?

With the departures of OU and Texas, the Big 12 is wide open this season.

Utah was picked by the media to win the league followed by Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Arizona and Iowa State — all of whom have a valid case for being the best team in the conference.

West Virginia and Texas Tech could make a run for it. Colorado will be entertaining, if nothing else.

We used the Big 12 preseason poll to determine the strength of schedule — only factoring in conference games — for all 16 teams.

We assigned point values, in inverse order of the projected standings, to judge the difficulty of each game. For example, Utah was picked to finish first. Its point value is 16. Arizona State, picked to finish last, has a value of one.

To account for the heightened difficulty of road games compared to home games, we increased the point value of each road opponent by one point (making Utah a 17, for example) and decreased the value of each home opponent by one point (making Utah a 15).

We tallied the point total for each team and divided it by nine, for the nine conference games, to get an average score.

For reference, here is the projected order of finish with difficulty ratings in parentheses.

1. Utah (16)

2. Kansas State (15)

3. Oklahoma State (14)

4. Kansas (13)

5. Arizona (12)

6. Iowa State (11)

7. West Virginia (10)

8. UCF (9)

9. Texas Tech (8)

10. TCU (7)

11. Colorado (6)

12. Baylor (5)

13. BYU (4)

14. Cincinnati (3)

15. Houston (2)

16. Arizona State (1)

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T16. Arizona

Home games: Texas Tech, Colorado, West Virginia, Houston, Arizona State

Road games: Utah, BYU, UCF, TCU

Strength of schedule: 6.9

Arizona lost its coach, but it returned one of the best quarterback/receiver combinations in the country with Noah Fifita and Tetairoa McMillan. New coach Brent Brennan could have himself a Big 12 championship contender in Year 1, especially with this schedule. The road slate is acronym-heavy.

T16. Kansas

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Publish date : 2024-07-31 10:02:38

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