Week 7 FCS Football Power Rankings

Mon, 10/15/2018

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	North Dakota State	52.19	6	0	3
2	Princeton	47.22	5	0	1
3	James Madison	46.54	5	2	2
4	South Dakota State	45.60	4	1	4
5	Dartmouth	44.09	5	0	6
6	Elon	40.52	4	2	5
7	Delaware	39.30	4	2	13
8	Northern Iowa	37.82	3	3	8
9	UC Davis	35.03	5	1	14
10	Towson	34.97	5	1	10
11	Nicholls	34.21	4	3	7
12	Eastern Washington	33.85	5	2	12
13	Furman	33.79	2	3	24
14	Jacksonville State	33.43	5	1	9
15	Villanova	32.96	3	4	11
16	Rhode Island	32.44	4	2	23
17	Stony Brook	31.92	5	2	16
18	Chattanooga	31.90	5	2	25
19	Sam Houston State	31.49	4	2	15
20	Weber State	31.46	4	2	36
21	North Dakota	31.40	4	2	26
22	Illinois State	31.11	5	1	27
23	Colgate	30.61	6	0	18
24	Idaho State	30.20	4	2	19
25	Montana State	29.68	4	2	28
26	The Citadel	29.66	1	4	29
27	Western Illinois	29.39	2	4	17
28	Kennesaw State	28.46	6	1	30
29	Montana	28.43	4	3	20
30	Northern Arizona	28.22	3	3	34
31	Austin Peay	27.78	3	4	22
32	Missouri State	27.65	4	2	31
33	Samford	27.62	3	4	32
34	Columbia	27.24	3	2	41
35	McNeese	27.17	5	1	33
36	Penn	27.02	4	1	38
37	Central Arkansas	26.58	4	2	39
38	Maine	26.00	4	2	53
39	New Hampshire	25.54	1	5	35
40	Monmouth	25.22	4	2	67
41	Campbell	25.16	5	1	47
42	Yale	25.13	3	2	48
43	Wofford	25.08	4	2	21
44	Incarnate Word	24.55	3	3	44
45	Cornell	24.47	2	3	58
46	Southeastern Louisiana	24.40	3	4	50
47	Richmond	24.26	3	4	65
48	Eastern Kentucky	24.02	3	3	54
49	Southeast Missouri State	23.76	4	2	55
50	East Tennessee State	23.33	6	1	59
51	South Dakota	23.25	3	3	46
52	North Carolina A&T	23.22	5	2	52
53	Southern Illinois	23.03	1	5	42
54	Cal Poly	22.78	2	4	40
55	Georgetown	22.77	3	4	57
56	Northwestern State	22.37	2	4	62
57	William & Mary	22.36	2	4	56
58	Florida A&M	22.25	5	2	63
59	Harvard	22.09	3	2	37
60	Youngstown State	21.12	2	4	49
61	Abilene Christian	21.08	3	4	74
62	Tennessee-Martin	21.01	1	5	51
63	Drake	20.88	3	2	45
64	Idaho	20.65	2	4	70
65	Tennessee State	20.58	2	3	43
66	Lafayette	20.47	1	5	71
67	Stephen F. Austin	19.88	1	5	72
68	Holy Cross	19.88	1	6	68
69	Dayton	19.79	3	4	73
70	Murray State	19.74	3	3	78
71	Charleston Southern	19.73	2	3	66
72	Sacred Heart	19.43	3	3	69
73	Mercer	18.95	3	3	64
74	Northern Colorado	18.85	0	7	61
75	Albany	18.56	2	4	60
76	San Diego	18.40	4	2	88
77	Alcorn State	17.52	5	2	83
78	Bucknell	17.43	1	6	75
79	Portland State	17.34	3	4	76
80	Fordham	17.02	1	5	102
81	Indiana State	17.00	2	4	90
82	Duquesne	16.79	4	3	80
83	Lamar	16.67	2	4	96
84	Stetson	16.54	4	1	100
85	Central Connecticut State	16.40	4	3	106
86	Alabama A&M	16.30	3	4	86
87	Marist	16.18	2	4	82
88	Norfolk State	15.96	3	2	84
89	Bryant	15.95	4	2	79
90	Southern Utah	15.01	1	5	101
91	South Carolina State	14.78	1	5	89
92	Southern	14.62	3	3	108
93	Presbyterian	14.32	2	3	91
94	Jackson State	14.08	3	2	94
95	Sacramento State	13.97	2	4	77
96	Prairie View A&M	13.89	3	4	87
97	Western Carolina	13.78	3	3	111
98	Gardner-Webb	13.12	1	6	92
99	Eastern Illinois	13.12	1	6	104
100	Morgan State	12.89	2	4	95
101	Houston Baptist	12.84	1	5	98
102	Brown	12.71	1	4	97
103	Lehigh	12.10	1	5	85
104	Morehead State	11.90	2	4	117
105	Grambling State	11.79	3	3	103
106	Tennessee Tech	11.59	0	6	105
107	Virginia Military	11.14	0	6	81
108	Butler	11.02	3	3	93
109	Wagner	10.68	2	5	114
110	Bethune-Cookman	10.67	4	3	109
111	Howard	10.67	2	3	115
112	North Carolina Central	10.51	2	3	110
113	Davidson	10.18	5	2	107
114	Jacksonville	10.07	1	4	99
115	Hampton	9.97	3	3	121
116	St. Francis	9.23	2	4	113
117	Savannah State	8.95	1	5	118
118	North Alabama	7.76	4	3	112
119	Robert Morris	7.55	1	5	119
120	Texas Southern	7.42	1	5	120
121	Alabama State	6.88	2	4	116
122	Valparaiso	6.82	1	5	122
123	Mississippi Valley State	4.66	0	5	125
124	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	3.05	1	5	123
125	Delaware State	1.79	0	6	124

RANK	CONFERENCE	RATING
1	COLONIAL	31.40
2	MISSOURI VALLEY	30.44
3	IVY LEAGUE	28.53
4	SOUTHERN	26.30
5	BIG SKY	24.83
6	SOUTHLAND	23.79
7-t	OHIO VALLEY	21.97
7-t	BIG SOUTH	21.97
9	PATRIOT	20.34
10	NORTHEAST	14.27
11	MID-EASTERN	14.08
12	PIONEER	14.06
13	SOUTHWESTERN	11.65

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