Tier list of the toughest games on Utah State’s football schedule | Sports
Utah State’s 2025 football season features a good mix of games projected to be tough and those expected to be far easier. So which games are which? That’s what we’ll be examining today, going through all 12 games on the schedule and ranking them 1-12 on how hard each will be and going a bit further by dividing them into tiers to group similarly-tough games together. In aiding the creation of this ranking, I took four different 1-136 FBS rankings — ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI), Bill Connelly’s SP+, Phil Steele’s preview magazine and the Kelley Ford (KFord) rankings — to create an average preseason ranking for each team. This forms the backbone of the ranking, but whether the game is played at home or on the road factored into the rankings and ensures this isn’t just a pure numbers-based thing. Let’s start from the easiest and work our way to the toughest. Win-or-be-embarrassed games These are all home games against teams ranked really low (and also the one FCS game on the schedule). Losing one of these would be quite the frustration. 12. Week 4 vs McNeese Average Preseason Rankings — N/A All-Time Series — First-ever Meeting Last year,
