Week 6 FCS Football Power Rankings

Mon, 10/08/2018

The Madness FCS Power Rankings

The Madness FCS Power Rankings is a relatively basic power rating system when compared to the highly complex systems involving comparative scoring formulas. This system uses no comparative scoring, so any parallel between this and other ranking systems is purely coincidental. There is also no momentum involved in these rankings, so “What have you done for me lately?” does not apply. Everything is valued as a whole. The objective remains the same though; to create an unbiased mechanism to sort the general strength of the 125 teams within the Football Championship Subdivision.

Teams are awarded for Wins and Points Scored, then penalized for Losses and Points Allowed. Teams also receive a ‘Stature Constant.’ The strongest FCS conferences get a higher value than the weaker conferences. This is done to lessen the effects of a superior team in a weak conference from building huge point margins and manipulating the system. This constant has been tweaked since last season also, to include each individual conference’s overall success in FCS vs. FCS games.

Teams will also gain bonuses for beating FBS teams. This has also been tweaked, giving a little more weight to those who beat Power Five teams as opposed to Group of Five teams. Also, a team will be penalized for losing to a school from a class below FCS (Division II, Division III, NAIA, NCCAA). The final piece of the puzzle is an RPI-style Strength of Schedule multiplier, where teams get bonuses and demerits just for playing teams listed previously in this paragraph.

The first rankings will appear after Week 5, September 29th. These will be available on the Madness no later than Monday every week from then on. There will also be a final edition released after the FCS Championship game in January. Like most ranking systems, a very strong or weak schedule or huge upsets, one way or the other, can have a drastic impact early on. As the season progresses the numbers, and teams, will sort themselves out and be much truer towards the end.

RANK	TEAM	RATING	W	L	Prev
1	Princeton	56.31	4	0	1
2	James Madison	48.09	4	2	2
3	North Dakota State	46.69	5	0	4
4	South Dakota State	44.86	3	1	3
5	Elon	41.93	4	1	9
6	Dartmouth	38.74	4	0	11
7	Nicholls	37.65	4	2	8
8	Northern Iowa	36.74	2	3	6
9	Jacksonville State	36.16	4	1	21
10	Towson	34.23	4	1	17
11	Villanova	33.84	3	3	13
12	Eastern Washington	33.58	5	1	16
13	Delaware	33.08	2	3	10
14	UC Davis	31.69	4	1	5
15	Sam Houston State	31.62	3	2	28
16	Stony Brook	31.58	4	2	12
17	Western Illinois	31.28	2	3	15
18	Colgate	31.21	5	0	30
19	Idaho State	30.82	4	1	27
20	Montana	30.48	4	2	7
21	Wofford	30.41	4	1	47
22	Austin Peay	30.24	3	3	26
23	Rhode Island	29.74	4	1	14
24	Furman	29.71	1	3	18
25	Chattanooga	29.24	4	2	32
26	North Dakota	29.04	3	2	29
27	Illinois State	28.67	4	1	34
28	Montana State	28.50	3	2	31
29	The Citadel	28.44	1	3	22
30	Kennesaw State	28.33	5	1	56
31	Missouri State	28.30	3	2	20
32	Samford	27.81	2	4	40
33	McNeese	27.35	5	1	24
34	Northern Arizona	27.32	3	3	41
35	New Hampshire	26.91	1	4	33
36	Weber State	26.49	3	2	42
37	Harvard	26.48	2	2	19
38	Penn	26.20	3	1	44
39	Central Arkansas	24.69	3	2	51
40	Cal Poly	24.63	2	4	45
41	Columbia	24.55	3	1	53
42	Southern Illinois	24.27	1	4	52
43	Tennessee State	24.25	2	2	23
44	Incarnate Word	23.28	2	2	37
45	Drake	23.06	3	1	65
46	South Dakota	22.95	3	2	55
47	Campbell	22.90	5	1	54
48	Yale	22.88	2	2	61
49	Youngstown State	22.84	2	3	38
50	Southeastern Louisiana	22.80	2	4	25
51	Tennessee-Martin	22.61	1	4	50
52	North Carolina A&T	22.50	5	1	46
53	Maine	22.25	3	2	80
54	Eastern Kentucky	21.96	2	3	35
55	Southeast Missouri State	21.82	3	2	43
56	William & Mary	21.30	2	3	60
57	Georgetown	21.28	2	4	57
58	Cornell	21.17	2	2	49
59	East Tennessee State	21.04	5	1	64
60	Albany	20.64	2	3	58
61	Northern Colorado	20.46	0	6	63
62	Northwestern State	20.44	2	3	70
63	Florida A&M	20.19	4	2	89
64	Mercer	20.04	3	2	73
65	Richmond	19.36	2	4	39
66	Charleston Southern	19.32	1	3	48
67	Monmouth	19.18	3	2	69
68	Holy Cross	18.82	1	5	36
69	Sacred Heart	18.79	3	2	71
70	Idaho	18.67	2	3	75
71	Lafayette	18.55	1	4	66
72	Stephen F. Austin	18.37	1	4	59
73	Dayton	18.24	3	3	67
74	Abilene Christian	18.15	2	4	82
75	Bucknell	17.91	1	5	78
76	Portland State	17.27	2	4	86
77	Sacramento State	17.23	2	3	62
78	Murray State	16.78	2	3	74
79	Bryant	16.46	4	1	79
80	Duquesne	16.37	3	3	81
81	Virginia Military	16.09	0	5	77
82	Marist	15.93	1	4	87
83	Alcorn State	15.81	4	2	68
84	Norfolk State	15.13	3	2	83
85	Lehigh	15.09	1	4	72
86	Alabama A&M	15.09	3	3	85
87	Prairie View A&M	14.88	3	3	92
88	San Diego	14.61	3	2	90
89	South Carolina State	14.60	1	4	95
90	Indiana State	14.19	2	3	84
91	Presbyterian	14.18	2	2	97
92	Gardner-Webb	13.54	1	5	88
93	Butler	13.20	3	2	91
94	Jackson State	13.05	2	2	103
95	Morgan State	12.79	1	4	76
96	Lamar	12.64	1	4	93
97	Brown	12.26	1	3	104
98	Houston Baptist	12.10	1	4	94
99	Jacksonville	12.03	1	3	108
100	Stetson	11.88	3	1	102
101	Southern Utah	11.81	0	5	107
102	Fordham	11.02	0	5	98
103	Grambling State	10.89	2	3	112
104	Eastern Illinois	10.88	1	5	96
105	Tennessee Tech	10.85	0	6	99
106	Central Connecticut State	10.79	3	3	110
107	Davidson	10.67	5	1	109
108	Southern	10.23	2	3	117
109	Bethune-Cookman	9.99	3	3	111
110	North Carolina Central	9.86	2	3	114
111	Western Carolina	9.58	3	2	101
112	North Alabama	9.40	3	3	100
113	St. Francis	9.06	2	3	105
114	Wagner	8.65	1	5	106
115	Howard	8.58	1	3	118
116	Alabama State	8.03	2	3	121
117	Morehead State	7.88	1	4	113
118	Savannah State	7.68	1	4	123
119	Robert Morris	7.45	1	4	116
120	Texas Southern	6.48	1	4	115
121	Hampton	6.29	2	3	119
122	Valparaiso	4.23	0	5	120
123	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	2.68	1	5	122
124	Delaware State	2.33	0	5	124
125	Mississippi Valley State	2.26	0	4	125

RANK	CONFERENCE	RATING
1	COLONIAL	30.40
2	MISSOURI VALLEY	29.70
3	IVY LEAGUE	27.56
4	SOUTHERN	26.72
5	BIG SKY	24.52
6	SOUTHLAND	22.66
7	OHIO VALLEY	21.41
8	BIG SOUTH	20.96
9	PATRIOT	19.33
10	MID-EASTERN	13.86
11	NORTHEAST	13.15
12	PIONEER	13.10
13	SOUTHWESTERN	10.65

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