Week 9 FCS Football Power Rankings

 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings - Week 9
 
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.
 
RANKTEAMRATINGWonLostPrevRANKCONFERENCERATING
1North Dakota State53.288011MISSOURI VALLEY30.04
2James Madison44.618122COLONIAL29.40
3South Dakota State44.546243SOUTHERN27.00
4Montana41.066234BIG SKY25.71
5Weber State37.366285OHIO VALLEY24.85
6Central Arkansas36.4962126SOUTHLAND24.54
7Sacramento State34.926257IVY LEAGUE23.14
8Dartmouth34.7860108BIG SOUTH21.86
9Furman34.755369PATRIOT21.20
10Towson34.67441110NORTHEAST17.83
11Northern Iowa34.6153911MID-EASTERN14.18
12Villanova34.2762712SOUTHWESTERN13.90
13Austin Peay33.43532413PIONEER13.77
14Southern Illinois33.274413
15Wofford33.105216
16Southeastern Louisiana32.904328
17Youngstown State32.895317
18Elon32.834414
19UC Davis32.254518
20New Hampshire32.154320
21Tennessee-Martin32.075315
22Illinois State31.696226
23Sam Houston State31.345419
24Southeast Missouri State31.005327
25North Dakota30.145325
26McNeese30.095423
27The Citadel29.375431
28Yale29.085132
29Stony Brook28.945335
30Princeton28.696055
31Montana State28.475322
32Albany28.195329
33Harvard28.144245
34Samford27.544441
35Abilene Christian27.515436
36Monmouth27.516240
37Richmond26.944450
38Jacksonville State26.846344
39Fordham26.063542
40Central Connecticut State26.067139
41Campbell25.976137
42Lehigh25.294356
43Delaware25.174434
44Georgetown24.885357
45South Dakota24.643533
46East Tennessee State24.292651
47Nicholls24.164447
48North Carolina A&T24.065243
49Incarnate Word24.005330
50Maine23.963554
51Holy Cross23.844446
52Chattanooga23.794460
53San Diego23.655262
54Murray State23.644559
55Eastern Kentucky23.615348
56Mercer23.593553
57Virginia Military23.164465
58Kennesaw State23.137158
59Idaho State23.113538
60Northern Arizona22.894469
61Cal Poly22.482664
62Columbia22.182421
63South Carolina State22.075284
64William & Mary21.952649
65Idaho21.843563
66Lamar21.164472
67Florida A&M21.087174
68Indiana State21.053570
69Gardner-Webb20.923580
70Davidson20.825352
71Southern20.754467
72Grambling State20.473479
73Alcorn State20.446278
74Dayton20.304368
75Portland State20.255471
76Rhode Island20.241766
77Tennessee State19.822681
78Duquesne19.785273
79Eastern Washington19.653561
80Lafayette18.621776
81Eastern Illinois18.610975
82North Alabama18.452691
83St. Francis18.374483
84Houston Baptist18.024577
85Bethune-Cookman17.906292
86Southern Utah17.682787
87Penn17.622490
88Missouri State17.601682
89Alabama State17.313486
90Charleston Southern16.882693
91Sacred Heart16.7844101
92Tennessee Tech16.604488
93Cornell16.242489
94Prairie View A&M15.583685
95Colgate15.461899
96Arkansas-Pine Bluff15.225396
97Drake15.1743111
98Northern Colorado14.961797
99Bucknell14.311795
100Marist14.0225112
101Stetson13.935294
102Western Illinois13.820898
103North Carolina Central13.3435102
104Morehead State13.2644100
105Stephen F. Austin13.0217103
106Northwestern State13.0217113
107Presbyterian12.9208105
108Robert Morris12.8144106
109Merrimack12.4644104
110Bryant12.4427108
111Western Carolina12.4217109
112Hampton12.3544107
113Alabama A&M11.9053115
114Norfolk State11.3226110
115Mississippi Valley State11.1226116
116Morgan State10.8617117
117Wagner10.2417120
118Long Island10.0207119
119Brown9.7115118
120Jacksonville9.6326114
121Jackson State7.9345123
122Delaware State7.6617121
123Butler7.4426122
124Howard4.2717124
125Texas Southern2.8608125
126Valparaiso2.6117126