Utah gymnastics will face the fourth hardest schedule in 2016 according to NCAA Gym News. At the end of this article is a graph showing the teams with the toughest schedules from the NCAA Gym News article. According to the article, the rankings were calculated by:
"Looking at the top 20 teams from last season, we took their opponents' rankings from 2015 and added them all together. For an opponent that was competing at home, we deducted two points to account for 'home-mat advantage.'"
Georgia, Arkansas, LSU, Utah, and Alabama round out the top five.