Final FCS Football Power Rankings

Sun, 01/06/2019

The Madness FCS Power Rankings - Final

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.

RANK	TEAM	RATING	Won	Lost	Prev	RANK	CONFERENCE	RATING
1	North Dakota State	63.62	15	0	1	1	MISSOURI VALLEY	33.86
2	South Dakota State	51.66	10	3	3	2	COLONIAL	30.77
3	Eastern Washington	50.92	12	3	7	3	BIG SKY	28.80
4	Princeton	46.30	10	0	2	4	SOUTHERN	27.52
5	Colgate	44.54	10	2	9	5	IVY LEAGUE	27.41
6	Kennesaw State	43.97	11	2	8	6	BIG SOUTH	27.04
7	UC Davis	42.73	10	3	5	7	SOUTHLAND	25.82
8	James Madison	42.59	9	4	4	8	OHIO VALLEY	24.86
9	Nicholls	41.24	9	4	10	9	PATRIOT	22.74
10	Dartmouth	40.92	9	1	6	10	NORTHEAST	17.82
11	Weber State	39.40	10	3	14	11	PIONEER	16.96
12	Northern Iowa	39.18	7	6	12	12	MID-EASTERN	16.43
13	Jacksonville State	38.96	9	4	11	13	SOUTHWESTERN	14.35
14	Maine	38.04	10	4	26
15	Wofford	36.51	9	4	16
16	Montana State	35.15	8	5	19
17	Towson	33.60	7	5	15
18	Elon	33.58	6	5	13
19	Delaware	33.52	7	5	18
20	Illinois State	32.98	6	5	21
21	Southeast Missouri State	32.64	9	4	25
22	Stony Brook	32.36	7	5	17
23	Furman	32.19	6	4	20
24	Samford	31.22	6	5	24
25	Monmouth	31.11	8	3	23
26	Harvard	31.06	6	4	22
27	North Carolina A&T	30.80	10	2	29
28	Villanova	30.12	5	6	27
29	The Citadel	30.10	5	6	35
30	Montana	29.59	6	5	30
31	Incarnate Word	28.84	6	5	28
32	Idaho State	28.50	6	5	33
33	Western Illinois	28.44	5	6	36
34	North Dakota	28.26	6	5	34
35	New Hampshire	27.96	4	7	31
36	Rhode Island	27.84	6	5	32
37	Sam Houston State	27.71	6	5	37
38	Central Arkansas	26.88	6	5	38
39	Youngstown State	26.78	4	7	42
40	East Tennessee State	26.77	8	4	41
41	Cal Poly	26.71	5	6	46
42	Chattanooga	26.55	6	5	40
43	Lamar	25.85	7	5	43
44	McNeese	25.82	6	5	44
45	Drake	25.58	7	3	57
46	Abilene Christian	25.53	6	5	52
47	Charleston Southern	25.53	5	6	39
48	Yale	25.50	5	5	49
49	Mercer	25.28	5	6	47
50	San Diego	25.27	9	3	45
51	Holy Cross	25.23	5	6	48
52	Austin Peay	25.08	5	6	51
53	South Dakota	24.99	4	7	56
54	Eastern Kentucky	24.86	7	4	55
55	Northern Arizona	24.86	4	6	54
56	Indiana State	24.77	7	4	58
57	Southeastern Louisiana	24.70	4	7	50
58	Columbia	24.62	6	4	53
59	Sacred Heart	24.46	7	4	59
60	Northwestern State	24.40	5	6	60
61	Campbell	23.98	6	5	61
62	Alcorn State	23.94	9	4	68
63	Dayton	23.64	6	5	62
64	Duquesne	23.50	9	4	72
65	William & Mary	23.34	4	6	64
66	Penn	23.32	6	4	63
67	Tennessee State	23.31	4	5	65
68	Murray State	22.97	5	6	69
69	Georgetown	22.77	5	6	66
70	Idaho	22.48	4	7	73
71	Richmond	22.32	4	7	67
72	Southern Illinois	21.72	2	9	74
73	Tennessee-Martin	21.71	2	9	70
74	Southern	21.11	7	4	81
75	Portland State	21.05	4	7	79
76	Albany	21.04	3	8	71
77	Central Connecticut State	20.38	6	5	75
78	Missouri State	20.32	4	6	85
79	Marist	20.10	5	6	77
80	Cornell	19.96	3	7	78
81	Stetson	19.88	8	2	80
82	Lafayette	19.86	3	8	82
83	Florida A&M	19.77	6	5	84
84	Northern Colorado	19.66	2	9	88
85	Gardner-Webb	19.64	3	8	86
86	Alabama A&M	19.42	6	5	89
87	Eastern Illinois	19.32	3	8	87
88	Stephen F. Austin	19.25	2	8	83
89	South Carolina State	19.11	5	6	76
90	Prairie View A&M	18.43	5	6	93
91	St. Francis	18.21	4	7	90
92	Fordham	17.15	2	9	91
93	Grambling State	17.12	6	5	96
94	Bucknell	16.67	1	10	92
95	Jackson State	16.34	5	5	100
96	Western Carolina	16.29	3	8	95
97	Sacramento State	16.26	2	8	94
98	Presbyterian	16.01	2	8	97
99	Bethune-Cookman	15.99	7	5	98
100	Lehigh	15.69	3	8	99
101	Howard	15.50	4	6	101
102	Wagner	15.13	4	7	102
103	Southern Utah	14.70	1	10	104
104	Morgan State	14.61	4	7	103
105	North Carolina Central	14.26	5	6	111
106	Bryant	13.98	6	5	105
107	Butler	13.76	4	7	107
108	Davidson	13.60	6	5	108
109	Tennessee Tech	13.33	1	10	110
110	Norfolk State	13.31	4	7	106
111	Houston Baptist	13.30	1	10	109
112	Hampton	12.31	7	3	112
113	Savannah State	11.95	2	8	113
114	Brown	11.53	1	9	115
115	Jacksonville	11.49	2	8	114
116	Virginia Military	11.15	1	10	116
117	Morehead State	10.53	3	8	117
118	North Alabama	10.50	7	3	119
119	Delaware State	9.66	3	8	120
120	Robert Morris	9.14	2	9	121
121	Texas Southern	8.88	2	9	118
122	Alabama State	8.85	4	7	123
123	Valparaiso	8.76	2	9	122
124	Mississippi Valley State	7.27	1	10	124
125	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	4.94	2	9	125

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