The College Football Playoff has made scheduling more important than ever. A schedule deemed too easy could keep a team out of the playoff (see Baylor in 2014), and a schedule considered too difficult could result in multiple losses and limit a team's national championship aspirations.
So which teams are expected to play the hardest and easiest schedules in 2016?
There are many ways to evaluate schedule strength; the traditional method sums opponents' records from the previous season to determine the toughest schedules heading into the following year.
Although this measure of SOS is a decent starting point, it has some major flaws.