Week 11 FCS Football Power Rankings

 
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.

RANKTEAMRATINGWonLostPrevRANKCONFERENCERATING
1North Dakota State52.8110011COLONIAL30.35
2Princeton45.429022MISSOURI VALLEY30.07
3Dartmouth42.398133IVY LEAGUE27.82
4South Dakota State41.677244SOUTHERN27.77
5UC Davis41.008255BIG SOUTH26.26
6James Madison40.127366BIG SKY26.10
7Kennesaw State39.0391127SOUTHLAND25.48
8Eastern Washington38.8382158OHIO VALLEY24.12
9Colgate38.8290109PATRIOT21.99
10Jacksonville State37.45821310NORTHEAST16.69
11Nicholls37.41731111PIONEER16.51
12Towson36.57731912MID-EASTERN15.98
13Delaware36.3273813SOUTHWESTERN13.37
14Elon36.17637
15Stony Brook35.147320
16Northern Iowa35.07559
17Wofford34.307314
18Monmouth33.707318
19Weber State33.428216
20Furman32.635417
21Illinois State31.395521
22Montana State31.226425
23Southeast Missouri State30.887322
24Incarnate Word30.636428
25North Dakota30.576424
26New Hampshire30.374627
27Harvard30.215436
28Montana30.166430
29Samford29.085523
30Chattanooga28.616432
31Rhode Island28.435531
32The Citadel28.334544
33Maine28.307335
34Western Illinois28.145529
35East Tennessee State28.148237
36Villanova28.054633
37North Carolina A&T28.028234
38Sam Houston State27.885538
39Idaho State27.816426
40Youngstown State27.634651
41Yale27.245439
42Southeastern Louisiana26.584642
43Mercer26.515548
44Cal Poly26.044660
45McNeese25.996440
46Abilene Christian25.716454
47Columbia25.585446
48Central Arkansas25.565543
49Charleston Southern25.394553
50Holy Cross24.774645
51Campbell24.736457
52San Diego24.658256
53Lamar24.486452
54Eastern Kentucky24.216455
55South Dakota24.204663
56Sacred Heart24.196449
57William & Mary23.874562
58Northwestern State23.794672
59Drake23.786371
60Murray State23.775573
61Austin Peay23.564641
62Indiana State23.296477
63Georgetown23.235558
64Dayton23.175564
65Idaho23.154650
66Tennessee State23.073559
67Penn22.816347
68Tennessee-Martin22.802870
69Lafayette21.693774
70Richmond21.643765
71Southern Illinois21.612868
72Portland State21.204675
73Alcorn State21.077378
74Cornell20.913669
75Northern Arizona20.913661
76Florida A&M20.616466
77Missouri State20.394680
78Duquesne20.127386
79Stetson20.097267
80Albany19.972879
81Stephen F. Austin19.842776
82Marist19.765581
83South Carolina State19.714591
84Northern Colorado19.502982
85Gardner-Webb19.283783
86Alabama A&M19.055584
87Central Connecticut State19.046488
88Southern19.036385
89Eastern Illinois18.263795
90Western Carolina17.993789
91Bucknell17.331987
92St. Francis17.304592
93Fordham16.971990
94Sacramento State16.402793
95Jackson State15.575499
96Howard15.164594
97Grambling State15.0464105
98Norfolk State14.9645101
99Southern Utah14.7819104
100Presbyterian14.732796
101Prairie View A&M14.4336100
102Bethune-Cookman14.1565110
103Lehigh13.7828107
104Butler13.6946116
105Bryant13.535597
106Morgan State13.5037109
107Tennessee Tech13.461998
108North Carolina Central13.3945106
109Houston Baptist13.3819108
110Wagner13.1437115
111Virginia Military12.8619102
112Davidson12.8555112
113Jacksonville11.9827103
114Brown11.7918111
115Hampton11.6763114
116Savannah State11.5227117
117Morehead State10.6937113
118Texas Southern10.4127118
119North Alabama9.8973119
120Robert Morris9.4328122
121Alabama State9.3736120
122Delaware State8.7628121
123Valparaiso8.3228123
124Mississippi Valley State7.2418124
125Arkansas-Pine Bluff3.6919125