Week 8 FCS Football Power Rankings

Sun, 10/21/2018

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	RANK	CONFERENCE	RATING
1	North Dakota State	54.74	7	0	1	1	COLONIAL	30.90
2	James Madison	46.46	5	2	3	2	MISSOURI VALLEY	30.48
3	Dartmouth	44.86	6	0	5	3	IVY LEAGUE	28.35
4	Princeton	42.85	6	0	2	4	SOUTHERN	26.35
5	South Dakota State	41.31	4	2	4	5	BIG SKY	24.89
6	Northern Iowa	41.26	4	3	8	6	SOUTHLAND	24.26
7	Elon	39.30	5	2	6	7	BIG SOUTH	23.30
8	UC Davis	38.83	6	1	9	8	OHIO VALLEY	22.86
9	Delaware	38.52	5	2	7	9	PATRIOT	20.42
10	Towson	36.09	6	1	10	10	PIONEER	15.08
11	Stony Brook	35.66	6	2	17	11	NORTHEAST	14.99
12	Jacksonville State	34.21	5	2	14	12	MID-EASTERN	14.80
13	Illinois State	34.05	5	2	22	13	SOUTHWESTERN	11.91
14	Colgate	33.89	6	0	23
15	Weber State	33.18	5	2	20
16	North Dakota	33.12	5	2	21
17	Eastern Washington	32.71	5	2	12
18	Villanova	32.63	3	4	15
19	Nicholls	32.29	4	3	11
20	Monmouth	31.94	5	2	40
21	Chattanooga	31.85	5	2	18
22	Western Illinois	31.16	3	4	27
23	Wofford	30.64	5	2	43
24	Idaho State	30.22	4	3	24
25	Montana	29.94	4	3	29
26	Montana State	29.74	4	3	25
27	Incarnate Word	29.66	4	3	44
28	Yale	29.30	4	2	42
29	Sam Houston State	29.23	4	3	19
30	Furman	29.19	2	4	13
31	Rhode Island	28.59	4	3	16
32	The Citadel	28.47	2	4	26
33	Samford	28.45	4	4	33
34	Kennesaw State	28.41	6	1	28
35	Southeast Missouri State	27.92	5	2	49
36	Austin Peay	27.51	3	4	31
37	Central Arkansas	27.42	5	2	37
38	Columbia	26.78	3	3	34
39	McNeese	26.74	5	2	35
40	Campbell	26.47	5	2	41
41	Cornell	25.35	3	3	45
42	Murray State	24.92	4	3	70
43	William & Mary	24.75	3	4	57
44	Penn	24.74	4	2	36
45	North Carolina A&T	24.63	6	2	52
46	Richmond	24.20	3	5	47
47	Missouri State	24.06	4	3	32
48	New Hampshire	24.00	1	6	39
49	Charleston Southern	23.96	3	3	71
50	Harvard	23.94	3	3	59
51	Southeastern Louisiana	23.87	3	5	46
52	East Tennessee State	23.49	6	2	50
53	Maine	23.44	4	3	38
54	Abilene Christian	23.23	4	4	61
55	South Dakota	22.73	3	4	51
56	Eastern Kentucky	22.62	3	4	48
57	Georgetown	22.49	4	4	55
58	Mercer	22.40	4	3	73
59	Florida A&M	22.37	5	2	58
60	Youngstown State	22.33	3	4	60
61	Sacred Heart	22.00	4	3	72
62	Northern Colorado	21.76	1	7	74
63	Southern Illinois	21.75	1	6	53
64	Drake	21.66	4	2	63
65	Idaho	21.57	3	4	64
66	Stephen F. Austin	21.55	2	5	67
67	Cal Poly	21.43	2	5	54
68	Lafayette	21.34	2	5	66
69	Tennessee State	21.28	3	3	65
70	Northwestern State	21.25	2	5	56
71	Northern Arizona	21.07	3	4	30
72	San Diego	20.73	5	2	76
73	Lamar	20.59	3	4	83
74	Dayton	20.42	3	5	69
75	Tennessee-Martin	19.86	1	6	62
76	Alcorn State	19.47	6	2	77
77	Holy Cross	19.30	1	6	68
78	Marist	18.64	3	4	87
79	Albany	18.56	2	5	75
80	Portland State	18.06	3	4	79
81	Indiana State	17.87	3	4	81
82	Stetson	17.85	5	1	84
83	Fordham	17.68	1	6	80
84	Duquesne	17.42	5	3	82
85	Bucknell	17.41	1	7	78
86	Central Connecticut State	17.37	4	4	85
87	Bryant	17.12	5	2	89
88	Alabama A&M	16.43	3	4	86
89	Sacramento State	15.67	2	5	95
90	Southern	15.62	4	3	92
91	South Carolina State	15.40	2	5	91
92	Eastern Illinois	14.92	2	6	99
93	North Carolina Central	14.44	3	3	112
94	Jackson State	14.40	3	3	94
95	Western Carolina	14.21	3	4	97
96	Norfolk State	13.95	3	3	88
97	Southern Utah	13.79	1	6	90
98	Prairie View A&M	13.72	3	4	96
99	Morgan State	13.70	2	5	100
100	Bethune-Cookman	13.46	4	4	110
101	Gardner-Webb	13.05	1	6	98
102	Lehigh	12.72	1	6	103
103	Howard	12.59	3	3	111
104	Grambling State	12.57	3	4	105
105	Jacksonville	12.34	1	5	114
106	Morehead State	12.17	3	4	104
107	Houston Baptist	12.16	1	6	101
108	Butler	11.99	3	4	108
109	Tennessee Tech	11.91	0	7	106
110	Virginia Military	11.84	0	7	107
111	Brown	11.74	1	5	102
112	Presbyterian	11.66	2	4	93
113	Hampton	11.00	3	3	115
114	Wagner	10.65	2	5	109
115	St. Francis	10.45	2	5	116
116	Davidson	10.00	5	3	113
117	North Alabama	9.68	5	3	118
118	Savannah State	9.10	1	5	117
119	Texas Southern	7.99	1	6	120
120	Robert Morris	7.90	2	5	119
121	Alabama State	6.99	2	4	121
122	Valparaiso	6.91	1	6	122
123	Mississippi Valley State	6.43	1	5	123
124	Delaware State	3.15	0	7	125
125	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	3.09	1	6	124

Team Pages

Week 8 FCS Football Power Rankings

Join Us On Your Favorite Network

About Us

Writing For Us