Best Defenses on their schedule (average opp. ranking of 54.0) - last year's ranking in parentheses:
data comes from S&P rankings off of football outsiders
3. Stanford (9)
24. UCLA (27)
27. USC (4)
36. Oregon State (74)
45. Michigan (50)
52. Utah
64. NCAA Average
65. Oregon (25)
68. Arizona (31)
69. Fresno State (62)
83. Arizona State (26)
86. Washington State (64)
88. Colorado (95)
Compare this to BYU's super easy independent schedule (avg. opp. ranking of 50.7):
11. Virginia
14. Texas
21. Boise State
28. Utah State
31. BYU
33. California
42. Houston
47. UCONN
60. Central Florida
64. Average
78. Nevada
109. UNLV
115. Middle Tennessee