{"id":300887,"date":"2025-11-19T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300887\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:18:10","slug":"ranking-strength-of-schedule-for-third-college-football-playoff-top-25-from-weakest-to-strongest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300887\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking Strength of Schedule for third College Football Playoff Top 25 from weakest to strongest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third edition of the College Football Playoff rankings debuted<\/a> on Tuesday night, giving fans an idea how the postseason picture might play out. Of course, there\u2019s still plenty to dissect and strength of schedule is a huge factor.<\/p>\n

Much of the conversation around strength of schedule last week centered around the ACC. Things are continuing to sort themselves out on that front after another key loss or two.<\/p>\n

On3 stops to take a look at each team in the College Football Playoff ranking in terms of strength of schedule according to the ESPN FPI<\/a>. Here its each team\u2019s strength of schedule, ranked from weakest to strongest, to this point.<\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 16<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech\u2019s strength of schedule has bounced around a bit in recent weeks after some topsy-turvy action in the ACC. It\u2019s down again this week, to the point that the Yellow Jackets rank last among this week\u2019s College Football Playoff teams. The good news is things should improve with remaining games against Pittsburgh and Georgia.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: Pittsburgh<\/a>, Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"UVaMandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 19<\/p>\n

Virginia\u2019s strength of schedule has moved up a bit, and winning a convincing game against a good Duke team will have helped a decent amount. The metric is a +12 for Virginia this week, moving in the right direction. It likely won\u2019t move a whole lot more based on the season finale.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: Virginia Tech<\/a><\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 23<\/p>\n

Houston returns to the College Football Playoff rankings this week, though it will need a ton of help to get into legitimate playoff range at this point. Chaos in the Big 12 is probably the best bet. In terms of strength of schedule, games against TCU and at Baylor to close should help.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: TCU<\/a>, @ Baylor<\/a><\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 24<\/p>\n

Tulane doesn\u2019t exactly rank high in the strength of schedule metric, checking in toward the back half of the field. Worse, the lone game against a super high-quality opponent resulted in a 45-10 loss to Ole Miss. Still, the Green Wave can make a case as the highest-ranked Group of Six conference champion. Long way to go, though.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: @ Temple<\/a>, Charlotte<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Texas\u00a9 Nathan Giese\/Avalanche-Journal \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 5<\/p>\n

Texas Tech has been feasting of late, ever since that tricky loss to Arizona State about a month back. Nothing has been close since then, and the Red Raiders have the feel of a team barrelling toward a playoff berth and looking to do some damage. There\u2019s only one opponent left on the schedule, too.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: @ West Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 1<\/p>\n

After the Penn State game, Ohio State had a stretch on the schedule that it simply had to manage to set up the monster showdown with Michigan in the finale. So far, so good. Now a Rutgers team that would love nothing more than to play spoiler is up before that chance at Michigan.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: Rutgers<\/a>, @ Michigan<\/a><\/p>\n

Utah<\/a> \u2013 SOS: 46<\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 12<\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s strength of schedule saw a nice tick up with a road trip to Baylor. And neither of the final two games are likely to hurt the Utes. It\u2019s mostly about how things shake out in the Big 12 title race and how many teams drop a game in the next two weeks. Utah is certainly in the right range to have a legitimate playoff shot.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: Kansas State<\/a>, @ Kansas<\/a><\/p>\n

Miami<\/a> \u2013 SOS: 43<\/p>\n

\"MiamiSam Navarro | Imagn Images<\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 13<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s schedule took a hit with Louisville and Florida State both losing two weeks ago. That diminished one of the program\u2019s best wins and tarnished the quality of one of the team\u2019s two losses. Louisville then went and lost again, further denting Miami\u2019s metrics. Road trips to Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh should help at least hold the ranking in place, if not improve it some.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: @ Virginia Tech<\/a>, @ Pittsburgh<\/a><\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 2<\/p>\n

Indiana\u2019s strength of schedule has bounced around the middle ranges of the playoff field, but it slips a bit this week after a win over Wisconsin at home. There isn\u2019t much left on the slate for the Hoosiers, but they\u2019re still in a much, much better position than a year ago.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: @ Purdue<\/a><\/p>\n

USC<\/a> \u2013 SOS: 36<\/p>\n

CFP Top 25 Ranking: 15<\/p>\n

USC had some ammo on the back end of the schedule to move up in this field, and it should get the chance to take advantage this weekend with a road trip to Oregon. Of course, USC\u2019s path into the playoffs is simple: It probably needs to win out to get in. That\u2019s understandable enough.<\/p>\n

Games Remaining: @ Oregon<\/a>, UCLA<\/a><\/p>\n

Remaining CFP teams\u2019 strength of schedule<\/p>\n

Michigan<\/a> | SOS: 35 | CFP Ranking: 18
Missouri<\/a> | SOS: 33 | CFP Ranking: 22
Ole Miss<\/a> | SOS: 32 | CFP Ranking: 6
Oregon<\/a> | SOS: 31 | CFP Ranking: 7
Arizona State<\/a> | SOS: 30 | CFP Ranking: 25
Notre Dame<\/a> | SOS: 29 | CFP Ranking: 9
Tennessee<\/a> | SOS: 28 | CFP Ranking: 20
BYU<\/a> | SOS: 27 | CFP Ranking: 11
Vanderbilt<\/a> | SOS: 21 | CFP Ranking: 14
Texas A&M<\/a> | SOS: 18 | CFP Ranking: 3
Illinois<\/a> | SOS: 16 | CFP Ranking: 21
Georgia<\/a> | SOS: 12 | CFP Ranking: 4
Oklahoma<\/a> | SOS: 10 | CFP Ranking: 8
Texas<\/a> | SOS: 6 | CFP Ranking: 17
Alabama<\/a> | SOS: 4 | CFP Ranking: 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third edition of the College Football Playoff rankings debuted on Tuesday night, giving fans an idea how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-300887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}