Schedules are out, intrasquads are happening, and we’re nearly ready for the 2025 season to begin. But with less than a month left until things officially kick off, we thought we’d find out which team will have the toughest road to Fort Worth.
But how do we determine the rankings? It’s pretty simple. We took each teams’ 2024 opponents’ rankings and added them all together. If their opponent was the home team, we subtracted two points for “home floor advantage.” In the case of non-neutral site meets with multiple teams, only the home team would have those points subtracted. Finally, we averaged that number and the team with the lowest number ranks first in schedule difficulty.
Confused? We broke down Oklahoma’s 2018 schedule as an example below.
In 2018, Oklahoma was at Georgia (12-2), hosted Iowa State (29) and Texas Woman’s (52), was at Florida (3-2), was at UCLA (4-2), hosted North Carolina (36), had a neutral meet versus Nebraska (7), hosted West Virginia (20), Michigan (10), Arizona State (41), Arkansas (19) and Denver (9), was at Alabama (6-2) and was at TWU (52-2). That means the Sooners competed against 14 total teams, coming out to an average of 20.71.
In 2018 and 2019, Florida had the most difficult schedule, according to our…
