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CFN: 2025 Big 12 Strength of Schedule Rankings: Toughest to Easiest

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2025 Big 12 Strength of Schedule Rankings: Toughest to Easiest​

2025 Big 12 strength of schedule rankings from toughest to easiest, with every team's game-by-game slate and how hard each game should be.​

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There might be conferences with tougher overall schedules than what the Big 12has to deal with, but no league has a more interesting situation.

Every team in the Big 12 is interesting. There isn't a national championship killer, but there also isn't a speed bump who'll be a sure-thing win for the contenders.

So in such an even year, who has the easiest Big 12 schedule, and who has it the hardest?

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Wexahu

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I look at Tech's "easiest" schedule and honestly don't see a whole lot of difference between theirs and those that are considered the most difficult. Most of these teams seem pretty even. I guess on paper at ASU, Utah, K-State, Houston and WVU seems like a decently difficult road schedule to me, but maybe it won't end up being that.
 
froginmn

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Wexahu said:
I look at Tech's "easiest" schedule and honestly don't see a whole lot of difference between theirs and those that are considered the most difficult. Most of these teams seem pretty even. I guess on paper at ASU, Utah, K-State, Houston and WVU seems like a decently difficult road schedule to me, but maybe it won't end up being that.
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Their three easiest games, according to this, are their home non-cons against Oregon St, Pine Bluff, and Kent State.

Us playing at UNC and against SMU is an obvious difference.
 
TopFrog

TopFrog

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Wexahu said:
I look at Tech's "easiest" schedule and honestly don't see a whole lot of difference between theirs and those that are considered the most difficult. Most of these teams seem pretty even. I guess on paper at ASU, Utah, K-State, Houston and WVU seems like a decently difficult road schedule to me, but maybe it won't end up being that.
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They miss us.
 
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Wexahu

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froginmn said:
Their three easiest games, according to this, are their home non-cons against Oregon St, Pine Bluff, and Kent State.

Us playing at UNC and against SMU is an obvious difference.
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Ah, that makes sense. For some reason I was just looking at conference schedules.

Tech's conference schedule seems reasonably difficult on paper, but again, who the heck knows how good anyone will be.
 
bc puckett

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FroggleRock said:
It’s an easy fix though. Divisions.
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The SEC and the Big 10 got rid of divisions in order to insure, as best you can, they get the top 2 teams in the league in the CCG. Too often one division is better than the other and the CCG is a mismatch with the 2nd "best team sitting home. For years the Big 10 had tOSU, Michigan, and PSU in the East and would wind up with someone like Iowa from the West in the CCG.

Don't see the Big 12 going to divisions anytime soon just for this reason.
 
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FroggleRock

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bc puckett said:
The SEC and the Big 10 got rid of divisions in order to insure, as best you can, they get the top 2 teams in the league in the CCG. Too often one division is better than the other and the CCG is a mismatch with the 2nd "best team sitting home. For years the Big 10 had tOSU, Michigan, and PSU in the East and would wind up with someone like Iowa from the West in the CCG.

Don't see the Big 12 going to divisions anytime soon just for this reason.
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The alternate issue however is what we saw this last season in the Big 12. You had a 5 way tie with 7-2 teams, and some of them did not have head to head matchups. So you got ASU, and then an ISU team that shouldn’t have made the CCG. I get what you’re saying though. But there’s no perfect way to do it. I just support divisions because it preserves rivalries and essentially acts as a round robin
 
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Mean Purple

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Wexahu said:
It's a shame we aren't playing Tech. One of the downsides to huge conferences. Not sure of any upside really, other than the almighty dollar I suppose, and I guess that's all that really matters in the end.
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yup. the obvious rivals should be playing each other each year. saddle game has often been a fun one.
 
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froginaustin

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Everyone that's not in Texas (and I suppose Florida and maybe Ohio) wants to play away games in the hot recruiting States for recruiting reasons, or so it seems to me.

If the B12 had a scheduling arrangement that guaranteed people mostly visits only to Utah, Arizona, West Virginia, Kansas, and Iowa, those people might be unhappy. It's possible that's one reason the conference is staying away from divisions or pods.

If the conference went to divisions, I would guess the Texas schools would be divided between the divisions by conference politics (and legitimately so from a conference perspective, trying to keep everyone reasonably happy).

Pods-- I doubt conference politics would result in 4 Texas schools in one pod. That would result in Texas schools having smaller travel costs (I am supposing) and in limiting the other schools' access to Texas recruits.

Maybe.
 
ShreveFrog

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froginaustin said:
Pods-- I doubt conference politics would result in 4 Texas schools in one pod. That would result in Texas schools having smaller travel costs (I am supposing) and in limiting the other schools' access to Texas recruits.
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They're already limited since you only play about half the teams in the conference.
 
Big Frog II

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As for schedules, last year I was looking at Utah, OSU, and Arizona as being our toughest games going in, and all three teams cratered. Who knows this year with all the transfers.
 

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