Week 9 FCS Football Power Rankings

Mon, 10/29/2018

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	Won	Lost	Prev	RANK	CONFERENCE	RATING
1	North Dakota State	54.96	8	0	1	1	COLONIAL	30.53
2	James Madison	44.80	6	2	2	2	MISSOURI VALLEY	30.00
3	Princeton	43.92	7	0	4	3	IVY LEAGUE	28.50
4	Dartmouth	43.74	7	0	3	4	SOUTHERN	26.75
5	UC Davis	43.04	7	1	8	5	BIG SKY	25.56
6	Delaware	41.89	6	2	9	6	SOUTHLAND	24.51
7	South Dakota State	41.41	5	2	5	7	BIG SOUTH	24.30
8	Elon	39.88	5	2	7	8	OHIO VALLEY	23.22
9	Colgate	39.00	7	0	14	9	PATRIOT	21.38
10	Nicholls	38.21	5	3	19	10	NORTHEAST	15.85
11	Jacksonville State	37.01	6	2	12	11	PIONEER	15.60
12	Northern Iowa	36.47	4	4	6	12	MID-EASTERN	15.57
13	Weber State	35.38	6	2	15	13	SOUTHWESTERN	12.86
14	Wofford	35.10	6	2	23
15	Stony Brook	34.36	6	3	11
16	Eastern Washington	33.95	6	2	17
17	Illinois State	33.55	5	3	13
18	Towson	33.33	6	2	10
19	North Dakota	32.65	5	3	16
20	Monmouth	31.86	6	2	20
21	Idaho State	30.93	5	3	24
22	Western Illinois	30.53	4	4	22
23	Furman	30.49	3	4	30
24	Kennesaw State	30.24	7	1	34
25	Montana State	30.06	4	4	26
26	Montana	29.99	4	4	25
27	Southeast Missouri State	29.44	6	2	35
28	Columbia	29.31	4	3	38
29	Sam Houston State	28.98	5	3	29
30	Chattanooga	28.69	6	2	21
31	Rhode Island	28.59	5	3	31
32	Samford	28.32	4	4	33
33	McNeese	27.88	6	2	39
34	Central Arkansas	27.86	5	3	37
35	Yale	27.69	4	3	28
36	Incarnate Word	27.45	4	4	27
37	Villanova	27.20	3	5	18
38	Austin Peay	26.89	4	4	36
39	North Carolina A&T	26.68	6	2	45
40	New Hampshire	26.55	2	6	48
41	Harvard	25.81	3	4	50
42	The Citadel	25.68	2	5	32
43	Sacred Heart	25.62	5	3	61
44	East Tennessee State	25.28	7	2	52
45	Murray State	24.73	4	4	42
46	Florida A&M	24.61	6	2	59
47	Penn	24.56	5	2	44
48	Richmond	24.34	3	5	46
49	Charleston Southern	24.28	3	4	49
50	Maine	24.19	5	3	53
51	William & Mary	24.14	3	5	43
52	Georgetown	23.93	4	5	57
53	Southeastern Louisiana	23.64	3	6	51
54	Southern Illinois	23.17	2	6	63
55	South Dakota	23.10	3	5	55
56	Cal Poly	23.09	3	5	67
57	Campbell	23.02	5	3	40
58	Lafayette	23.00	3	5	68
59	Eastern Kentucky	22.67	4	4	56
60	Holy Cross	22.61	2	6	77
61	Abilene Christian	22.54	4	4	54
62	Dayton	22.18	4	5	74
63	Idaho	22.16	3	5	65
64	Alcorn State	22.07	7	2	76
65	Youngstown State	21.73	3	5	60
66	Lamar	21.65	4	4	73
67	Northwestern State	21.52	3	5	70
68	Missouri State	21.48	4	4	47
69	Mercer	21.33	4	4	58
70	Northern Colorado	21.30	2	7	62
71	Tennessee State	21.27	3	3	69
72	San Diego	21.12	6	2	72
73	Cornell	21.09	3	4	41
74	Stephen F. Austin	21.09	2	6	66
75	Drake	20.84	5	2	64
76	Northern Arizona	20.83	3	5	71
77	Stetson	20.31	6	1	82
78	Tennessee-Martin	20.31	1	7	75
79	Indiana State	20.22	4	4	81
80	Marist	20.20	4	4	78
81	Portland State	19.56	4	4	80
82	Albany	18.98	2	6	79
83	Bucknell	18.77	1	7	85
84	Southern	18.74	5	3	90
85	Central Connecticut State	18.63	5	4	86
86	Alabama A&M	18.32	4	4	88
87	Duquesne	17.73	5	3	84
88	Gardner-Webb	17.49	2	6	101
89	South Carolina State	17.29	3	5	91
90	Western Carolina	17.13	3	5	95
91	Fordham	16.78	1	7	83
92	Bryant	16.07	5	3	87
93	Sacramento State	15.10	2	6	89
94	Eastern Illinois	14.85	2	7	92
95	Prairie View A&M	14.84	3	5	98
96	Presbyterian	14.60	2	5	112
97	Norfolk State	13.93	3	4	96
98	St. Francis	13.85	3	5	115
99	Grambling State	13.70	4	4	104
100	Virginia Military	13.51	0	8	110
101	Howard	13.36	3	4	103
102	Southern Utah	13.34	1	7	97
103	Morgan State	13.26	2	6	99
104	Jackson State	13.14	3	4	94
105	North Carolina Central	13.07	3	4	93
106	Brown	12.99	1	6	111
107	Savannah State	12.99	2	5	118
108	Bethune-Cookman	12.63	4	5	100
109	Jacksonville	12.34	1	6	105
110	Tennessee Tech	12.15	0	8	109
111	Houston Baptist	11.82	1	7	107
112	Butler	11.73	3	5	108
113	Morehead State	11.53	3	5	106
114	Davidson	11.42	5	4	116
115	Texas Southern	10.98	2	6	119
116	Hampton	10.71	4	3	113
117	Lehigh	10.32	1	7	102
118	Wagner	10.23	2	6	114
119	North Alabama	9.54	5	3	117
120	Robert Morris	8.36	2	6	120
121	Alabama State	7.51	2	5	121
122	Valparaiso	6.86	1	7	122
123	Delaware State	6.27	1	7	124
124	Mississippi Valley State	5.55	1	6	123
125	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	3.57	1	7	125

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