Week 5 FCS Football Power Rankings

Mon, 10/01/2018

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	63.84	3	0	N/A
2	James Madison	53.15	4	1	N/A
3	South Dakota State	49.46	2	1	N/A
4	North Dakota State	47.00	4	0	N/A
5	UC Davis	40.78	3	1	N/A
6	Northern Iowa	39.21	2	2	N/A
7	Montana	36.53	4	1	N/A
8	Nicholls	36.05	3	2	N/A
9	Elon	35.84	3	1	N/A
10	Delaware	34.67	2	2	N/A
11	Dartmouth	34.13	3	0	N/A
12	Stony Brook	34.06	4	1	N/A
13	Villanova	33.75	3	2	N/A
14	Rhode Island	32.62	3	1	N/A
15	Western Illinois	32.46	2	2	N/A
16	Eastern Washington	31.90	4	1	N/A
17	Towson	31.62	3	1	N/A
18	Furman	31.09	1	3	N/A
19	Harvard	30.99	2	1	N/A
20	Missouri State	29.91	3	1	N/A
21	Jacksonville State	29.79	3	1	N/A
22	The Citadel	29.59	1	3	N/A
23	Tennessee State	28.90	2	1	N/A
24	McNeese	28.67	4	1	N/A
25	Southeastern Louisiana	28.06	2	3	N/A
26	Austin Peay	28.05	2	3	N/A
27	Idaho State	27.84	3	1	N/A
28	Sam Houston State	27.79	2	2	N/A
29	North Dakota	27.08	3	2	N/A
30	Colgate	27.05	4	0	N/A
31	Montana State	27.03	3	2	N/A
32	Chattanooga	26.14	4	1	N/A
33	New Hampshire	26.09	0	4	N/A
34	Illinois State	25.47	3	1	N/A
35	Eastern Kentucky	25.44	2	2	N/A
36	Holy Cross	25.20	1	4	N/A
37	Incarnate Word	25.15	2	2	N/A
38	Youngstown State	25.10	1	3	N/A
39	Richmond	24.26	2	3	N/A
40	Samford	24.04	1	4	N/A
41	Northern Arizona	23.92	2	3	N/A
42	Weber State	23.78	3	1	N/A
43	Southeast Missouri State	23.65	2	2	N/A
44	Penn	23.63	2	1	N/A
45	Cal Poly	23.53	1	4	N/A
46	North Carolina A&T	23.37	4	1	N/A
47	Wofford	23.24	3	1	N/A
48	Charleston Southern	22.80	1	2	N/A
49	Cornell	22.73	1	2	N/A
50	Tennessee-Martin	22.29	1	4	N/A
51	Central Arkansas	21.48	2	2	N/A
52	Southern Illinois	21.45	1	3	N/A
53	Columbia	21.22	2	1	N/A
54	Campbell	21.07	4	1	N/A
55	South Dakota	20.85	2	2	N/A
56	Kennesaw State	20.73	4	1	N/A
57	Georgetown	20.71	1	4	N/A
58	Albany	20.58	2	2	N/A
59	Stephen F. Austin	20.51	1	3	N/A
60	William & Mary	20.48	1	3	N/A
61	Yale	20.32	2	1	N/A
62	Sacramento State	20.25	2	2	N/A
63	Northern Colorado	20.03	0	5	N/A
64	East Tennessee State	19.56	4	1	N/A
65	Drake	19.15	2	1	N/A
66	Lafayette	18.89	1	4	N/A
67	Dayton	18.16	2	3	N/A
68	Alcorn State	18.06	4	1	N/A
69	Monmouth	17.99	3	2	N/A
70	Northwestern State	17.96	2	2	N/A
71	Sacred Heart	17.61	3	1	N/A
72	Lehigh	17.51	1	3	N/A
73	Mercer	17.34	3	2	N/A
74	Murray State	16.67	1	3	N/A
75	Idaho	16.48	2	2	N/A
76	Morgan State	16.28	1	3	N/A
77	Virginia Military	15.63	0	5	N/A
78	Bucknell	15.28	1	4	N/A
79	Bryant	15.06	3	1	N/A
80	Maine	15.00	2	2	N/A
81	Duquesne	14.67	3	2	N/A
82	Abilene Christian	14.37	2	3	N/A
83	Norfolk State	14.36	3	1	N/A
84	Indiana State	14.20	2	2	N/A
85	Alabama A&M	14.14	2	3	N/A
86	Portland State	14.04	1	4	N/A
87	Marist	13.68	1	3	N/A
88	Gardner-Webb	13.32	1	4	N/A
89	Florida A&M	13.17	3	2	N/A
90	San Diego	13.14	2	2	N/A
91	Butler	13.02	3	1	N/A
92	Prairie View A&M	12.98	3	3	N/A
93	Lamar	12.96	1	4	N/A
94	Houston Baptist	12.85	1	3	N/A
95	South Carolina State	12.22	0	4	N/A
96	Eastern Illinois	11.72	1	4	N/A
97	Presbyterian	11.58	2	1	N/A
98	Fordham	11.42	0	4	N/A
99	Tennessee Tech	11.41	0	5	N/A
100	North Alabama	11.37	3	2	N/A
101	Western Carolina	11.24	3	1	N/A
102	Stetson	11.07	3	1	N/A
103	Jackson State	10.69	1	2	N/A
104	Brown	10.23	1	2	N/A
105	St. Francis	10.21	2	3	N/A
106	Wagner	9.85	1	4	N/A
107	Southern Utah	9.21	0	4	N/A
108	Jacksonville	8.95	1	2	N/A
109	Davidson	8.93	4	1	N/A
110	Central Connecticut State	8.53	2	3	N/A
111	Bethune-Cookman	8.21	2	3	N/A
112	Grambling State	8.07	1	3	N/A
113	Morehead State	7.81	1	3	N/A
114	North Carolina Central	7.50	1	3	N/A
115	Texas Southern	7.41	1	3	N/A
116	Robert Morris	7.29	1	3	N/A
117	Southern	7.01	2	1	N/A
118	Howard	6.79	1	2	N/A
119	Hampton	5.42	1	3	N/A
120	Valparaiso	4.37	0	4	N/A
121	Alabama State	3.98	1	3	N/A
122	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	1.86	1	4	N/A
123	Savannah State	1.41	0	4	N/A
124	Delaware State	0.89	0	4	N/A
125	Mississippi Valley State	-0.61	0	3	N/A

RANK	CONFERENCE	RATING
1	COLONIAL	31.03
2	MISSOURI VALLEY	29.82
3	IVY LEAGUE	26.94
4	SOUTHERN	24.99
5	BIG SKY	23.90
6	SOUTHLAND	22.44
7	OHIO VALLEY	21.63
8	PATRIOT	19.74
9	BIG SOUTH	19.30
10	NORTHEAST	12.47
11	MID-EASTERN	12.28
12	PIONEER	11.77
13	SOUTHWESTERN	9.78

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