There has been plenty of talk about the Ohio State football team being the best in the country the first half of the season. Detractors point to the weak schedule the Buckeyes have played.
Well, let’s look at the strength of schedule of each Top 10 team, not by ratings of those who crunch all kinds of numbers with computers but by just using a simple formula.
Wins minus losses by FBS opponents in other games they played gives a team a point for each. They get a point for every Power 5 team they played and another for a team currently ranked in the AP Poll.