Big 12 strength of schedule rankings 2025: Texas Tech set up for success, Colorado faces gauntlet

Only three years ago, the Big 12 teams played a perfect round calendar. Each school competed against all the others, and the schedules therefore rarely paid a lot of relevance. However, the conference exploded from 10 to 16 teams, the schedules have never been so important.

At that time, obtaining a good draw can make all the difference. The Big 12 champion of Big 12 Arizona State was able to accelerate in the middle of last season to prepare for the best pretenders Kansas State and Byu in the second half. The Iowa State played six teams at a conference that missed Bowl matches. There is a good chance that the teams with the simplest calendar of this year will also have a huge advantage to reach the playoffs.

Now granted, here is the thing: in the Big 12, the strength of schedules is somewhat unpredictable. Two years ago, Virginia-Western seemed to face one of the most difficult times in the League, but ended up with the easiest. In addition, each conference team has Fanduel Win totals between 5.5 and 8.5. The teams are frankly not far enough so that there can be free rides.

That said, getting a good draw can make all the difference in the flight of the schedule, collect breakage and win a trip to the AT&T stadium to play for a Big 12 title. In that mind, here is how we classify the most difficult schedules of the conference in 2025.

Note: the Big 12 no longer does an official pre-season survey, so we use the 247Sports Big 12 SurveyWith votes from the 16 publishers of team sites.