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    2024 Sun Belt College Football Strength of Schedule Rankings

    By College Football News,

    13 hours ago

    How tough is everyone's schedule in the Sun Belt this college football season?

    Who should have the easiest path, and who will need to battle to come up with anything fun?

    Here's how we do our college football Strength of Schedule Rankings, and they're admittedly self-serving. Where is each team ranked in our 2024 CFN 1 to 134 Rankings? That's the number.

    So if Northern Illinois is ranked 120th, a team gets a 120 points for a home game against the Huskies, and 60 - cut the score in half; obviously it's harder to play away from home - for road games. The lower the overall score, the tougher the schedule.

    Based on the same formula, we rank each team's games from toughest to easiest.

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    Nov 11, 2023; Lynchburg, Virginia, USA; Old Dominion Monarchs head coach Ricky Rahne after the game at Williams Stadium.

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    2024 Sun Belt Strength of Schedule Rankings

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    Again, the lower the score, the tougher the schedule , and ranking

    1 Old Dominion

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 737
    2024 Old Dominion Preview

    1 at South Carolina, Aug 31
    2 Virginia Tech, Sept 14
    3 at Appalachian State, Nov 2
    4 at Coastal Carolina, Oct 5
    5 at Arkansas State, Nov 30
    6 at Georgia State, Oct 12
    7 at Bowling Green, Sept 28
    8 Texas State, Oct 19
    9 James Madison, Nov 16
    10 East Carolina, Sept 7
    11 Marshall, Nov 23
    12 Georgia Southern, Oct 24

    2 Georgia Southern

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 786.5
    2024 Georgia Southern Preview

    1 at Ole Miss, Sept 21
    2 at Coastal Carolina, Nov 23
    3 at South Alabama, Nov 2
    4 at Georgia State, Sept 28
    5 at Old Dominion, Oct 24
    6 Boise State, Aug 31
    7 at Nevada, Sept 7
    8 Appalachian State, Nov 30
    9 James Madison, Oct 19
    10 Troy, Nov 16
    11 Marshall, Oct 12
    12 South Carolina State, Sept 14

    3 Georgia State

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 840.5
    2024 Georgia State Preview

    1 at Georgia Tech, Aug 31
    2 at Appalachian State, Oct 26
    3 at Texas State, Nov 23
    4 at James Madison, Nov 9
    5 at Marshall, Oct 17
    6 at UConn, Nov 2
    7 Vanderbilt, Sept 14
    8 Coastal Carolina, Nov 30
    9 Arkansas State, Nov 16
    10 Georgia Southern, Sept 28
    11 Old Dominion, Oct 12
    12 UT Chattanooga, Sept 7

    4 Appalachian State

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 845
    2024 Appalachian State Preview

    1 at Clemson, Sept 7
    2 at Coastal Carolina, Nov 7
    3 at East Carolina, Sept 14
    4 at Marshall, Oct 5
    5 at Georgia Southern, Nov 30
    6 at Louisiana, Oct 12
    7 Liberty, Sept 28
    8 James Madison, Nov 23
    9 South Alabama, Sept 19
    10 Georgia State, Oct 26
    11 Old Dominion, Nov 2
    12 East Tennessee State, Aug 31

    5 Louisiana

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 855.5
    2024 Louisiana Preview

    1 at Wake Forest, Sept 28
    2 at Texas State, Oct 29
    3 at Coastal Carolina, Oct 19
    4 at Southern Miss, Oct 5
    5 Appalachian State, Oct 12
    6 at Kennesaw State, Sept 7
    7 at ULM, Nov 30
    8 Tulane, Sept 21
    9 Troy, Nov 23
    10 Arkansas State, Nov 9
    11 South Alabama, Nov 16
    12 Grambling State, Aug 31

    6 Marshall

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 859
    2024 Marshall Preview

    1 at Ohio State, Sept 21
    2 at Virginia Tech, Sept 7
    3 at James Madison, Nov 30
    4 at Georgia Southern, Oct 12
    5 at Old Dominion, Nov 23
    6 at Southern Miss, Nov 9
    7 Appalachian State, Oct 5
    8 Coastal Carolina, Nov 16
    9 Georgia State, Oct 17
    10 Western Michigan, Sept 28
    11 ULM, Nov 2
    12 Stony Brook, Aug 31

    7 Southern Miss

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 867
    2024 Southern Miss Preview

    1 at Kentucky, Aug 31
    2 at Texas State, Nov 16
    3 at James Madison, Oct 26
    4 at Troy, Nov 30
    5 at Jacksonville State, Sept 21
    6 at ULM, Oct 12
    7 USF, Sept 14
    8 Marshall, Nov 9
    9 Arkansas State, Oct 19
    10 South Alabama, Nov 23
    11 Louisiana, Oct 5
    12 SE Louisiana, Sept 7

    8 ULM

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 876
    2024 ULM Preview

    1 at Texas, Sept 21
    2 at Auburn, Nov 16
    3 at Troy, Sept 28
    4 at Arkansas State, Nov 23
    5 at South Alabama, Oct 26
    6 Texas State, Nov 9
    7 James Madison, Oct 5
    8 Marshall, Nov 2
    9 Louisiana, Nov 30
    10 Southern Miss, Oct 12
    11 UAB, Sept 7
    12 Jackson State, Aug 31

    9 Coastal Carolina

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 878.5
    2024 Coastal Carolina Preview

    1 at James Madison, Oct 10
    2 at Troy, Nov 2
    3 at Marshall, Nov 16
    4 at Georgia State, Nov 30
    5 at Jacksonville State, Aug 31
    6 at Temple, Sept 14
    7 Appalachian State, Nov 7
    8 Virginia, Sept 21
    9 Georgia Southern, Nov 23
    10 Louisiana, Oct 19
    11 Old Dominion, Oct 5
    12 William & Mary, Sept 7

    10 South Alabama

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 881
    2024 South Alabama Preview

    1 at LSU, Sept 28
    2 at Appalachian State, Sept 19
    3 at Arkansas State, Oct 5
    4 at Louisiana, Nov 16
    5 at Southern Miss, Nov 23
    6 at Ohio, Sept 7
    7 Texas State, Nov 29
    8 Troy, Oct 15
    9 North Texas, Aug 31
    10 Georgia Southern, Nov 2
    11 ULM, Oct 26
    12 Northwestern State, Sept 14

    11 Troy

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 898
    2024 Troy Preview

    1 at Iowa, Sept 14
    2 at Memphis, Sept 7
    3 at Arkansas State, Oct 26
    4 at South Alabama, Oct 15
    5 at Georgia Southern, Nov 16
    6 at Louisiana, Nov 23
    7 Texas State, Oct 3
    8 Coastal Carolina, Nov 2
    9 Southern Miss, Nov 30
    10 Nevada, Aug 31
    11 ULM, Sept 28
    12 Florida A&M, Sept 21

    12 Arkansas State

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 902
    2024 Arkansas State Preview

    1 at Michigan, Sept 14
    2 at Iowa State, Sept 21
    3 at Texas State, Oct 12
    4 at Louisiana, Nov 9
    5 at Georgia State, Nov 16
    6 at Southern Miss, Oct 19
    7 Troy, Oct 26
    8 South Alabama, Oct 5
    9 Old Dominion, Nov 30
    10 Tulsa, Sept 7
    11 ULM, Nov 23
    12 Central Arkansas, Aug 31

    13 James Madison

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 937
    2024 James Madison Preview

    1 at North Carolina, Sept 21
    2 at Appalachian State, Nov 23
    3 at Georgia Southern, Oct 19
    4 at Old Dominion, Nov 16
    5 at Charlotte, Aug 31
    6 at ULM, Oct 5
    7 Coastal Carolina, Oct 10
    8 Marshall, Nov 30
    9 Georgia State, Nov 9
    10 Southern Miss, Oct 26
    11 Ball State, Sept 28
    12 Gardner-Webb, Sept 7

    14 Texas State

    2024 Strength of Schedule Score: 943.5
    2024 Texas State Preview

    1 at Troy, Oct 3
    2 at South Alabama, Nov 29
    3 at Old Dominion, Oct 19
    4 at Sam Houston (in Houston), Sept 28
    5 Arizona State, Sept 14
    6 at ULM, Nov 9
    7 UTSA, Sept 7
    8 Arkansas State, Oct 12
    9 Louisiana, Oct 29
    10 Georgia State, Nov 23
    11 Southern Miss, Nov 16
    12 Lamar, Aug 31

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