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With the "accomplishment points"  (AP) for each team in Div-1A (FBS) completed, the strength of schedule (SoS, Round 1) can be represented.  Recall that APs can be negative in the first round.  

This was done by entering the Round 1 accomplishment points for all of each team???s opponents.  However, since teams played either 12. 13, or 14 games, the simple sum of those APs couldn't be used to represent a team's SoS.  I calculated both the average and the median accomplishment points for a teams's opponents for this purpose, but I decided to use the median because it's more resistant to outliers than the average.  Let MOAP represent the median accomplishment points for a given team's opponents (including conference championships and bowl games).

Note that since I don't have APs for non-FBS teams, I used the following for their APs:

  Non-FBS teams with a winning record:  AP = 0.00
  Non-FBS teams with a winning record:  AP = -10.00
  Non-FBS teams with a 0.500 record:  AP = -5.00

This is a measure of the strength of the opponents on a team's schedule.  Here are the Round 1 SoS results, showing the teams ranked by their MOAP scores:

Med. Opponent Accomp. Pts
Team  

 
Oklahoma = 122.07
Baylor = 112.39
Colorado = 111.12
Texas = 107.52
Syracuse = 102.53
Virginia Tech = 102.26
North Carolina = 101.97
Virginia = 101.73
Miami (FL) = 101.50
Duke = 99.35
Georgia Tech = 99.17
Arkansas = 98.47
Florida = 98.47
Clemson = 97.78
North Carolina State = 97.78
Vanderbilt = 97.78
Florida State = 97.20
Maryland = 97.20
Rutgers = 97.20
South Florida = 97.20
Washington = 96.55
Colorado State = 95.85
Pittsburgh = 94.55
Boston College = 93.12
West Virginia = 91.16
Illinois = 91.16
Purdue = 89.40
Kansas = 89.40
Nebraska = 89.05
South Carolina = 89.05
Wake Forest = 88.40
Cincinnati = 87.54
Utah State = 86.75
Marshall = 85.20
Texas Tech = 84.11
UCLA = 83.60
LSU = 82.35
Oklahoma State = 82.35
Missouri = 82.31
Connecticut = 81.08
Nevada = 80.52
Notre Dame = 80.52
Oregon State = 80.52
Michigan State = 79.24
Ohio State = 79.24
Louisville = 79.11
Indiana = 77.48
Air Force = 76.29
California = 76.29
Fresno State = 76.29
Houston = 76.29
Georgia = 75.73
Hawaii = 74.66
Idaho = 73.08
Michigan = 72.54
New Mexico = 70.96
Tulane = 69.67
Mississippi = 69.41
Southern Methodist = 68.29
Alabama = 66.53
Mississippi State = 66.53
Auburn = 65.89
Iowa = 65.85
Minnesota = 65.85
Penn State = 65.85
Wisconsin = 65.85
USC = 65.63
Washington State = 65.63
Stanford = 65.42
Navy = 65.21
San Jose State = 65.06
New Mexico State = 64.35
Kentucky = 62.37
Army = 62.31
Arizona State = 57.62
Tennessee = 57.15
UNLV = 56.98
Western Kentucky = 56.71
East Carolina = 55.92
UTEP = 55.41
Northwestern = 52.01
Texas A&M = 51.55
Temple = 51.55
San Diego State = 50.61
Oregon = 49.60
TCU = 49.60
Toledo = 48.29
Kansas State = 48.26
Iowa State = 47.27
Louisiana - Monroe = 47.17
North Texas = 47.17
Western Michigan = 46.81
Buffalo = 46.14
Eastern Michigan = 45.46
Florida Atlantic = 44.57
Southern Miss = 44.57
Central Michigan = 44.10
Middle Tennessee State = 41.28
Miami (OH) = 39.35
Ohio = 39.35
UCF = 39.24
Arizona = 37.67
Louisiana - Lafayette = 37.44
Utah = 36.00
Florida International = 35.85
Wyoming = 35.30
Boise State = 34.61
Northern Illinois = 34.61
Kent State = 30.99
Memphis = 30.31
Rice = 30.31
Troy = 30.31
UAB = 29.18
Akron = 27.42
Arkansas State = 25.36
Tulsa = 24.81
Bowling Green = 22.08
BYU = 21.38
Louisiana Tech = 20.25
Ball State = 13.31

Average    67.41
Median    66.53