2014 SEC strength of schedule

With spring football a month away, let’s take a gander at the SEC’s strength of schedule for 2014. Obviously, this is how the NCAA would determine a team’s strength of schedule.

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The opponents’ win percentage is calculated by adding up the total wins and losses for the 12 teams on the schedule, and I added an additional column to show the non-conference opponents’ win-loss record, too.

Here’s a look:

Related: SEC football 2014 schedules

Team Opp. Win % Opp. Won-Loss Non-Con Opp. Arkansas 0.656 103-54 .510 (26-25) Tennessee 0.652 101-54 .692 (36-16) Texas A&M 0.645 100-55 .520 (26-24) Kentucky 0.641 98-55 .640 (32-18) South Carolina 0.619 96-59 .673 (35-17) Auburn 0.604 93-61 .520 (26-24) Georgia 0.601 92-61 .667 (34-17) Ole Miss 0.586 89-63 .469 (23-26) Florida 0.569 87-66 .380 (19-31) Missouri 0.556 84-67 .647 (33-18) LSU 0.536 82-71 .510 (26-25) Mississippi State 0.530 80-71 .333 (16-32) Vanderbilt 0.517 78-73 .429 (21-28) Alabama 0.473 71-79 .271 (13-35)

Related: A look at 2013’s strength of schedule prior to the season

Few notes:

Arkansas again has one of the country’s toughest schedules (it may be the toughest), while Tennessee is right behind them.

The Vols have the toughest non-conference schedule with Utah State, Arkansas State, Oklahoma and Chattanooga. Outside of Chattanooga, is there a win you can circle in the first three?

Alabama is the only team in the conference to have less than .500 opponents’ winning percentage. That’s two years in a row ( see last year’s here ) the Tide are the only team in the SEC to play opponents with a sub .500 win percentage prior to the start of the season.

) the Tide are the only team in the SEC to play opponents with a sub .500 win percentage prior to the start of the season. On paper, Florida’s schedule doesn’t look tough, but the Gators play both Alabama and LSU in 2014, along with the rest of the SEC schedule and non-conference defending national champions, Florida State.

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