or "some of us have it just a little easier than others".  I was interested to see how programs ranked in terms of their strength of schedule over time---everybody talks about your winning percentage and where you rank, but seems to ignore who you played.  I took the top 20 winningest programs since 1901 and compared how many games they've all played vs other top 20 programs over that time.  (I excluded Central Michigan and Miami of Ohio since they are small fry who don't play many top programs.  The results are very illuminating....and confirm a lot of what we have long suspected.

UF is a top 20 program over that time.....you will notice that this is despite typically playing about TWICE as many toughies as a lot of the media darling programs per year.  How much higher would UF's winning percentage be if it had played typical ND/OU/USC/Meatchicekn/OSU type of schedules? (2 toughies per year instead of 4)?  One more win per season is extremely likely IMO.....which would make UF a top 5 program in terms of winning percentage.  Oh....and the SEC dominates in terms of strength of schedule-no surprise.

Florida	4.12
Alabama	3.75
Auburn	3.69
Georgia	3.33
Florida State	2.98
Louisiana State	2.70
Miami	2.70
Tennessee	2.58
Southern Cal	2.50
Oklahoma	2.17
Notre Dame	2.16
Michigan	1.85
Ohio State	1.80
Nebraska	1.78
Texas	1.74
Washington	1.52
Penn State	1.15
Arizona State	0.74
Notre Dame			Notre Dame	28		Notre Dame	5
Michigan	28		Michigan			Michigan	103
Ohio State	5		Ohio State	103		Ohio State
Texas	10		Texas	1		Texas	3
Oklahoma	9		Oklahoma	1		Oklahoma	2
Alabama	6		Alabama	3		Alabama	3
Southern Cal	80		Southern Cal	10		Southern Cal	22
Nebraska	16		Nebraska	6		Nebraska	2
Penn State	19		Penn State	14		Penn State	23
Tennessee	8		Tennessee	1		Tennessee	1
Florida State	6		Florida State	2		Florida State	3
Georgia	1		Georgia	2		Georgia	1
Louisiana State	10		Louisiana State	0		Louisiana State	3
Miami	23		Miami	2		Miami	3
Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	5		Miami (Ohio)	3
Florida	1		Florida	2		Florida	1
Auburn	0		Auburn	2		Auburn	2
Washington	7		Washington	12		Washington	11
Arizona State	2		Arizona State	1		Arizona State	2
Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	3		Central Michigan	0
Total	231		Total	198		Total	193
Avg per year	2.16		Avg per year	1.85		Avg per year	1.80
Notre Dame	10		Notre Dame	9		Notre Dame	6
Michigan	1		Michigan	1		Michigan	3
Ohio State	3		Ohio State	2		Ohio State	3
Texas			Texas	100		Texas	8
Oklahoma	100		Oklahoma			Oklahoma	4
Alabama	8		Alabama	4		Alabama
Southern Cal	5		Southern Cal	9		Southern Cal	7
Nebraska	12		Nebraska	84		Nebraska	5
Penn State	5		Penn State	2		Penn State	13
Tennessee	3		Tennessee	2		Tennessee	90
Florida State	0		Florida State	5		Florida State	4
Georgia	4		Georgia	0		Georgia	63
Louisiana State	15		Louisiana State	2		Louisiana State	71
Miami	4		Miami	6		Miami	17
Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	0
Florida	3		Florida	1		Florida	34
Auburn	8		Auburn	1		Auburn	67
Washington	4		Washington	3		Washington	4
Arizona State	1		Arizona State	1		Arizona State	2
Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	0
Total	186		Total	232		Total	401
Avg per year	1.74		Avg per year	2.17		Avg per year	3.75
Notre Dame	80		Notre Dame	16		Notre Dame	19
Michigan	10		Michigan	6		Michigan	14
Ohio State	22		Ohio State	2		Ohio State	23
Texas	5		Texas	12		Texas	5
Oklahoma	9		Oklahoma	84		Oklahoma	2
Alabama	7		Alabama	5		Alabama	13
Southern Cal			Southern Cal	4		Southern Cal	9
Nebraska	4		Nebraska			Nebraska	13
Penn State	9		Penn State	13		Penn State
Tennessee	4		Tennessee	2		Tennessee	5
Florida State	2		Florida State	8		Florida State	3
Georgia	3		Georgia	1		Georgia	1
Louisiana State	2		Louisiana State	6		Louisiana State	1
Miami	2		Miami	10		Miami	7
Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	0
Florida	2		Florida	2		Florida	2
Auburn	3		Auburn	4		Auburn	2
Washington	79		Washington	7		Washington	2
Arizona State	25		Arizona State	8		Arizona State	1
Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	1
Total	268		Total	190		Total	123
Avg per year	2.50		Avg per year	1.78		Avg per year	1.15
Notre Dame	8		Notre Dame	6		Notre Dame	1
Michigan	1		Michigan	2		Michigan	2
Ohio State	1		Ohio State	3		Ohio State	1
Texas	3		Texas	0		Texas	4
Oklahoma	2		Oklahoma	5		Oklahoma	0
Alabama	90		Alabama	4		Alabama	63
Southern Cal	4		Southern Cal	3		Southern Cal	3
Nebraska	2		Nebraska	8		Nebraska	1
Penn State	5		Penn State	3		Penn State	1
Tennessee			Tennessee	2		Tennessee	37
Florida State	2		Florida State			Florida State	11
Georgia	37		Georgia	11		Georgia
Louisiana State	30		Louisiana State	9		Louisiana State	27
Miami	3		Miami	51		Miami	12
Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	1
Florida	38		Florida	53		Florida	86
Auburn	49		Auburn	18		Auburn	104
Washington	0		Washington	0		Washington	0
Arizona State	1		Arizona State	4		Arizona State	1
Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	1
Total	276		Total	182		Total	356
Avg per year	2.58		Avg per year	2.98		Avg per year	3.33
			*started in 1947
Notre Dame	10		Notre Dame	23		Notre Dame	0
Michigan	0		Michigan	2		Michigan	5
Ohio State	3		Ohio State	3		Ohio State	3
Texas	15		Texas	4		Texas	0
Oklahoma	2		Oklahoma	6		Oklahoma	0
Alabama	71		Alabama	17		Alabama	0
Southern Cal	2		Southern Cal	2		Southern Cal	0
Nebraska	6		Nebraska	10		Nebraska	0
Penn State	1		Penn State	7		Penn State	0
Tennessee	30		Tennessee	3		Tennessee	0
Florida State	9		Florida State	51		Florida State	0
Georgia	27		Georgia	12		Georgia	1
Louisiana State			Louisiana State	12		Louisiana State	3
Miami	12		Miami			Miami	3
Miami (Ohio)	3		Miami (Ohio)	3		Miami (Ohio)
Florida	55		Florida	54		Florida	1
Auburn	41		Auburn	11		Auburn	0
Washington	1		Washington	3		Washington	1
Arizona State	1		Arizona State	1		Arizona State	0
Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	22
Total	289		Total	224		Total	39
Avg per year	2.70		Avg per year	2.70		Avg per year
			*began in 1926
Notre Dame	1		Notre Dame	0		Notre Dame	7
Michigan	2		Michigan	2		Michigan	12
Ohio State	1		Ohio State	2		Ohio State	11
Texas	3		Texas	8		Texas	4
Oklahoma	1		Oklahoma	1		Oklahoma	3
Alabama	34		Alabama	67		Alabama	4
Southern Cal	2		Southern Cal	3		Southern Cal	79
Nebraska	2		Nebraska	4		Nebraska	7
Penn State	2		Penn State	2		Penn State	2
Tennessee	38		Tennessee	49		Tennessee	0
Florida State	53		Florida State	18		Florida State	0
Georgia	86		Georgia	104		Georgia	0
Louisiana State	55		Louisiana State	41		Louisiana State	1
Miami	54		Miami	11		Miami	3
Miami (Ohio)	1		Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	1
Florida			Florida	83		Florida	1
Auburn	83		Auburn			Auburn	0
Washington	1		Washington	0		Washington
Arizona State	0		Arizona State	0		Arizona State	28
Central Michigan	1		Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan	0
Total	420		Total	395		Total	163
Avg per year	4.12		Avg per year	3.69		Avg per year	1.52
*began in 1906
Notre Dame	2		Notre Dame	0
Michigan	1		Michigan	3
Ohio State	2		Ohio State	0
Texas	1		Texas	0
Oklahoma	1		Oklahoma	0
Alabama	2		Alabama	0
Southern Cal	25		Southern Cal	0
Nebraska	8		Nebraska	0
Penn State	1		Penn State	1
Tennessee	1		Tennessee	0
Florida State	4		Florida State	0
Georgia	1		Georgia	1
Louisiana State	1		Louisiana State	0
Miami	1		Miami	0
Miami (Ohio)	0		Miami (Ohio)	22
Florida	0		Florida	1
Auburn	0		Auburn	0
Washington	28		Washington	0
Arizona State			Arizona State	0
Central Michigan	0		Central Michigan
Total	79		Total	28
Avg per year	0.74		Avg per year