Week 12 FCS Football Power Rankings

Sun, 11/18/2018

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	51.11	11	0	1	1	COLONIAL	30.25
2	Princeton	46.30	10	0	2	2	MISSOURI VALLEY	30.22
3	South Dakota State	42.62	8	2	4	3	IVY LEAGUE	27.46
4	James Madison	41.31	8	3	6	4	SOUTHERN	26.70
5	UC Davis	41.15	9	2	5	5	BIG SKY	26.49
6	Dartmouth	40.92	9	1	3	6	BIG SOUTH	26.45
7	Eastern Washington	40.92	9	2	8	7	SOUTHLAND	25.71
8	Kennesaw State	40.64	10	1	7	8	OHIO VALLEY	24.21
9	Colgate	39.03	9	1	9	9	PATRIOT	21.85
10	Nicholls	38.13	8	3	11	10	NORTHEAST	17.39
11	Jacksonville State	38.10	8	3	10	11	PIONEER	16.98
12	Northern Iowa	36.66	6	5	16	12	MID-EASTERN	16.34
13	Elon	35.58	6	4	14	13	SOUTHWESTERN	13.73
14	Weber State	35.12	9	2	19
15	Towson	34.71	7	4	12
16	Wofford	33.10	8	3	17
17	Stony Brook	33.01	7	4	15
18	Delaware	33.00	7	4	13
19	Montana State	32.31	7	4	22
20	Furman	31.93	6	4	20
21	Illinois State	31.70	6	5	21
22	Harvard	31.31	6	4	27
23	Monmouth	31.30	8	3	18
24	Samford	31.30	6	5	29
25	Southeast Missouri State	30.75	8	3	23
26	Maine	30.65	8	3	33
27	Villanova	30.54	5	6	36
28	Incarnate Word	30.48	6	4	24
29	North Carolina A&T	29.81	9	2	37
30	Montana	29.51	6	5	28
31	New Hampshire	28.80	4	7	26
32	Rhode Island	28.34	6	5	31
33	Idaho State	28.21	6	5	39
34	North Dakota	28.10	6	5	25
35	The Citadel	28.02	4	6	32
36	Western Illinois	27.91	5	6	34
37	Sam Houston State	27.83	6	5	38
38	Central Arkansas	27.00	6	5	48
39	Charleston Southern	26.89	5	5	49
40	Chattanooga	26.54	6	5	30
41	East Tennessee State	26.37	8	3	35
42	Youngstown State	26.33	4	7	40
43	Lamar	26.29	7	4	53
44	McNeese	26.29	6	5	45
45	San Diego	26.23	9	2	52
46	Cal Poly	25.96	5	6	44
47	Mercer	25.40	5	6	43
48	Holy Cross	25.38	5	6	50
49	Yale	25.38	5	5	41
50	Southeastern Louisiana	25.34	4	7	42
51	Austin Peay	25.12	5	6	61
52	Abilene Christian	25.11	6	5	46
53	Columbia	24.62	6	4	47
54	Northern Arizona	24.56	4	6	75
55	Eastern Kentucky	24.53	7	4	54
56	South Dakota	24.45	4	7	55
57	Drake	24.44	7	3	59
58	Indiana State	24.42	7	4	62
59	Sacred Heart	24.40	7	4	56
60	Northwestern State	24.38	5	6	58
61	Campbell	24.16	6	5	51
62	Dayton	23.72	6	5	64
63	Penn	23.32	6	4	67
64	William & Mary	23.20	4	6	57
65	Tennessee State	23.13	4	5	66
66	Georgetown	22.70	5	6	63
67	Richmond	22.66	4	7	70
68	Alcorn State	22.53	8	3	73
69	Murray State	22.52	5	6	60
70	Tennessee-Martin	21.89	2	9	68
71	Albany	21.83	3	8	80
72	Duquesne	21.69	8	3	78
73	Idaho	21.55	4	7	65
74	Southern Illinois	21.28	2	9	71
75	Central Connecticut State	20.40	6	5	87
76	South Carolina State	20.25	5	5	83
77	Marist	20.25	5	6	82
78	Cornell	20.20	3	7	74
79	Portland State	20.06	4	7	72
80	Stetson	19.99	8	2	79
81	Southern	19.77	6	3	88
82	Lafayette	19.71	3	8	69
83	Stephen F. Austin	19.62	2	8	81
84	Florida A&M	19.57	6	5	76
85	Missouri State	19.54	4	6	77
86	Gardner-Webb	19.45	3	8	85
87	Eastern Illinois	19.40	3	8	89
88	Northern Colorado	19.34	2	9	84
89	Alabama A&M	19.04	6	5	86
90	St. Francis	18.12	4	7	92
91	Fordham	17.04	2	9	93
92	Bucknell	16.64	1	10	91
93	Prairie View A&M	16.54	4	6	101
94	Sacramento State	16.39	2	8	94
95	Western Carolina	16.26	3	8	90
96	Grambling State	16.09	6	4	97
97	Presbyterian	16.03	2	8	100
98	Bethune-Cookman	15.99	7	5	102
99	Lehigh	15.89	3	8	103
100	Jackson State	15.88	5	5	95
101	Howard	15.31	4	6	96
102	Wagner	14.85	4	7	110
103	Morgan State	14.79	4	7	106
104	Southern Utah	14.56	1	10	99
105	Bryant	13.98	6	5	105
106	Norfolk State	13.98	4	6	98
107	Butler	13.86	4	7	104
108	Davidson	13.67	6	5	112
109	Houston Baptist	13.47	1	10	109
110	Tennessee Tech	13.41	1	10	107
111	North Carolina Central	13.16	4	6	108
112	Hampton	12.20	7	3	115
113	Savannah State	11.99	2	8	116
114	Jacksonville	11.59	2	8	113
115	Brown	11.53	1	9	114
116	Virginia Military	11.15	1	10	111
117	Morehead State	10.61	3	8	117
118	Texas Southern	9.98	2	8	118
119	North Alabama	9.98	7	3	119
120	Delaware State	9.55	3	8	122
121	Robert Morris	9.07	2	9	120
122	Valparaiso	8.72	2	9	123
123	Alabama State	7.87	3	7	121
124	Mississippi Valley State	7.10	1	9	124
125	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	4.80	2	9	125

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