Week 5 FCS Football Power Rankings

Sun, 09/29/2019

The Madness FCS Power Rankings - Week 5

The Madness FCS Power Rankings are 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 126 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’. Teams from the full-scholarship automatic qualifying FCS conferences get the highest value. Non- or less than full-scholarship FCS conference teams get a middle value. And those from non-automatic leagues get the lowest value. 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.

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 29. These will be available on the Madness no later than Monday every week from now 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. So if the rankings appear a little skewed early on, give it a little time.

RANK	TEAM	RATING	Won	Lost	Prev	RANK	CONFERENCE	RATING
1	North Dakota State	49.97	4	0	N/A	1	MISSOURI VALLEY	29.71
2	Central Arkansas	44.00	3	1	N/A	2	COLONIAL	27.03
3	James Madison	42.58	4	1	N/A	3	SOUTHERN	23.68
4	Montana	41.96	4	1	N/A	4	BIG SKY	23.66
5	Weber State	41.20	2	2	N/A	5	OHIO VALLEY	22.34
6	Towson	40.03	3	2	N/A	6	IVY LEAGUE	20.98
7	Youngstown State	38.49	4	0	N/A	7	PATRIOT	20.91
8	South Dakota State	37.01	3	1	N/A	8	SOUTHLAND	20.15
9	Samford	36.71	3	2	N/A	9	BIG SOUTH	18.27
10	UC Davis	35.07	2	3	N/A	10	NORTHEAST	14.85
11	Villanova	33.24	5	0	N/A	11	SOUTHWESTERN	11.56
12	Austin Peay	32.72	3	2	N/A	12	MID-EASTERN	11.12
13	North Dakota	30.61	2	2	N/A	13	PIONEER	9.00
14	Columbia	30.52	1	1	N/A
15	Furman	30.42	3	2	N/A
16	Southeastern Louisiana	30.29	3	1	N/A
17	Jacksonville State	30.23	3	2	N/A
18	Yale	29.98	2	0	N/A
19	Tennessee-Martin	29.35	2	2	N/A
20	Dartmouth	29.21	2	0	N/A
21	Elon	28.64	2	3	N/A
22	Georgetown	27.88	3	1	N/A
23	Delaware	27.72	3	2	N/A
24	Northern Iowa	27.71	2	2	N/A
25	Maine	27.55	2	3	N/A
26	Montana State	27.49	4	1	N/A
27	Wofford	27.40	2	2	N/A
28	Sam Houston State	27.04	3	2	N/A
29	South Dakota	26.62	1	3	N/A
30	Southern Illinois	26.15	2	2	N/A
31	Illinois State	25.48	3	1	N/A
32	Sacramento State	25.13	2	2	N/A
33	Holy Cross	24.88	1	3	N/A
34	Indiana State	24.75	2	2	N/A
35	Monmouth	23.70	2	2	N/A
36	Mercer	23.64	2	3	N/A
37	The Citadel	23.63	2	3	N/A
38	McNeese	23.59	2	3	N/A
39	Southeast Missouri State	23.56	2	2	N/A
40	Campbell	23.53	3	1	N/A
41	East Tennessee State	23.27	2	3	N/A
42	Stony Brook	22.77	4	1	N/A
43	Princeton	22.77	2	0	N/A
44	Idaho State	22.75	2	2	N/A
45	Central Connecticut State	22.46	3	1	N/A
46	William & Mary	22.43	2	3	N/A
47	Nicholls	21.42	2	2	N/A
48	Murray State	21.37	2	3	N/A
49	North Carolina A&T	20.93	3	1	N/A
50	Lehigh	20.80	1	3	N/A
51	Cornell	20.78	1	1	N/A
52	Eastern Washington	20.60	2	3	N/A
53	Davidson	20.48	3	1	N/A
54	Northern Arizona	20.28	2	3	N/A
55	Kennesaw State	19.90	4	1	N/A
56	Albany	19.71	3	2	N/A
57	Abilene Christian	19.50	2	3	N/A
58	Richmond	19.27	1	3	N/A
59	Southern	19.23	2	3	N/A
60	Duquesne	19.18	2	2	N/A
61	Eastern Kentucky	18.73	3	2	N/A
62	Rhode Island	18.64	0	4	N/A
63	North Alabama	18.61	2	3	N/A
64	Harvard	18.49	1	1	N/A
65	Chattanooga	18.31	2	3	N/A
66	Fordham	18.19	2	3	N/A
67	Dayton	18.03	2	1	N/A
68	Eastern Illinois	17.96	0	5	N/A
69	Idaho	17.63	2	3	N/A
70	Western Illinois	17.50	0	4	N/A
71	Portland State	16.90	2	3	N/A
72	Tennessee Tech	16.80	4	1	N/A
73	Bucknell	15.97	0	4	N/A
74	Cal Poly	15.97	2	2	N/A
75	Missouri State	15.64	0	3	N/A
76	Incarnate Word	15.19	2	2	N/A
77	Colgate	15.18	0	5	N/A
78	New Hampshire	15.17	2	2	N/A
79	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	15.10	3	2	N/A
80	Lafayette	14.95	0	5	N/A
81	Penn	14.68	1	1	N/A
82	Northern Colorado	14.53	1	4	N/A
83	St. Francis	14.32	3	2	N/A
84	Florida A&M	14.19	3	1	N/A
85	Gardner-Webb	14.03	1	3	N/A
86	Alcorn State	13.97	3	2	N/A
87	Houston Baptist	13.74	4	1	N/A
88	Southern Utah	13.58	1	4	N/A
89	San Diego	13.45	1	2	N/A
90	Virginia Military	12.82	2	3	N/A
91	Lamar	12.50	2	3	N/A
92	Prairie View A&M	12.48	2	3	N/A
93	South Carolina State	12.01	2	1	N/A
94	Alabama A&M	11.97	3	2	N/A
95	Alabama State	11.91	2	2	N/A
96	Bethune-Cookman	11.61	3	1	N/A
97	Grambling State	11.55	0	4	N/A
98	Marist	11.01	1	3	N/A
99	Merrimack	10.93	2	3	N/A
100	Sacred Heart	10.92	3	1	N/A
101	Bryant	10.78	0	5	N/A
102	Charleston Southern	10.68	0	4	N/A
103	Tennessee State	10.54	1	4	N/A
104	Presbyterian	10.41	0	4	N/A
105	Norfolk State	10.11	1	4	N/A
106	Stephen F. Austin	9.31	1	4	N/A
107	Western Carolina	9.05	1	3	N/A
108	North Carolina Central	9.04	2	3	N/A
109	Morehead State	8.86	2	2	N/A
110	Delaware State	8.64	1	3	N/A
111	Howard	8.54	1	4	N/A
112	Hampton	8.50	2	2	N/A
113	Stetson	8.49	3	1	N/A
114	Robert Morris	8.31	1	4	N/A
115	Long Island	8.22	0	3	N/A
116	Mississippi Valley State	8.08	0	4	N/A
117	Northwestern State	7.58	0	5	N/A
118	Wagner	7.14	1	4	N/A
119	Jacksonville	6.64	2	2	N/A
120	Drake	5.73	1	3	N/A
121	Brown	4.29	1	1	N/A
122	Jackson State	3.95	1	3	N/A
123	Morgan State	3.83	0	4	N/A
124	Butler	3.26	1	3	N/A
125	Texas Southern	1.34	0	4	N/A
126	Valparaiso	0.20	0	4	N/A

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