Week 6 FCS Football Power Rankings

October 8, 2018 · Jason Groomes
 
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 W L Prev
1 Princeton 56.31 4 0 1
2 James Madison 48.09 4 2 2
3 North Dakota State 46.69 5 0 4
4 South Dakota State 44.86 3 1 3
5 Elon 41.93 4 1 9
6 Dartmouth 38.74 4 0 11
7 Nicholls 37.65 4 2 8
8 Northern Iowa 36.74 2 3 6
9 Jacksonville State 36.16 4 1 21
10 Towson 34.23 4 1 17
11 Villanova 33.84 3 3 13
12 Eastern Washington 33.58 5 1 16
13 Delaware 33.08 2 3 10
14 UC Davis 31.69 4 1 5
15 Sam Houston State 31.62 3 2 28
16 Stony Brook 31.58 4 2 12
17 Western Illinois 31.28 2 3 15
18 Colgate 31.21 5 0 30
19 Idaho State 30.82 4 1 27
20 Montana 30.48 4 2 7
21 Wofford 30.41 4 1 47
22 Austin Peay 30.24 3 3 26
23 Rhode Island 29.74 4 1 14
24 Furman 29.71 1 3 18
25 Chattanooga 29.24 4 2 32
26 North Dakota 29.04 3 2 29
27 Illinois State 28.67 4 1 34
28 Montana State 28.50 3 2 31
29 The Citadel 28.44 1 3 22
30 Kennesaw State 28.33 5 1 56
31 Missouri State 28.30 3 2 20
32 Samford 27.81 2 4 40
33 McNeese 27.35 5 1 24
34 Northern Arizona 27.32 3 3 41
35 New Hampshire 26.91 1 4 33
36 Weber State 26.49 3 2 42
37 Harvard 26.48 2 2 19
38 Penn 26.20 3 1 44
39 Central Arkansas 24.69 3 2 51
40 Cal Poly 24.63 2 4 45
41 Columbia 24.55 3 1 53
42 Southern Illinois 24.27 1 4 52
43 Tennessee State 24.25 2 2 23
44 Incarnate Word 23.28 2 2 37
45 Drake 23.06 3 1 65
46 South Dakota 22.95 3 2 55
47 Campbell 22.90 5 1 54
48 Yale 22.88 2 2 61
49 Youngstown State 22.84 2 3 38
50 Southeastern Louisiana 22.80 2 4 25
51 Tennessee-Martin 22.61 1 4 50
52 North Carolina A&T 22.50 5 1 46
53 Maine 22.25 3 2 80
54 Eastern Kentucky 21.96 2 3 35
55 Southeast Missouri State 21.82 3 2 43
56 William & Mary 21.30 2 3 60
57 Georgetown 21.28 2 4 57
58 Cornell 21.17 2 2 49
59 East Tennessee State 21.04 5 1 64
60 Albany 20.64 2 3 58
61 Northern Colorado 20.46 0 6 63
62 Northwestern State 20.44 2 3 70
63 Florida A&M 20.19 4 2 89
64 Mercer 20.04 3 2 73
65 Richmond 19.36 2 4 39
66 Charleston Southern 19.32 1 3 48
67 Monmouth 19.18 3 2 69
68 Holy Cross 18.82 1 5 36
69 Sacred Heart 18.79 3 2 71
70 Idaho 18.67 2 3 75
71 Lafayette 18.55 1 4 66
72 Stephen F. Austin 18.37 1 4 59
73 Dayton 18.24 3 3 67
74 Abilene Christian 18.15 2 4 82
75 Bucknell 17.91 1 5 78
76 Portland State 17.27 2 4 86
77 Sacramento State 17.23 2 3 62
78 Murray State 16.78 2 3 74
79 Bryant 16.46 4 1 79
80 Duquesne 16.37 3 3 81
81 Virginia Military 16.09 0 5 77
82 Marist 15.93 1 4 87
83 Alcorn State 15.81 4 2 68
84 Norfolk State 15.13 3 2 83
85 Lehigh 15.09 1 4 72
86 Alabama A&M 15.09 3 3 85
87 Prairie View A&M 14.88 3 3 92
88 San Diego 14.61 3 2 90
89 South Carolina State 14.60 1 4 95
90 Indiana State 14.19 2 3 84
91 Presbyterian 14.18 2 2 97
92 Gardner-Webb 13.54 1 5 88
93 Butler 13.20 3 2 91
94 Jackson State 13.05 2 2 103
95 Morgan State 12.79 1 4 76
96 Lamar 12.64 1 4 93
97 Brown 12.26 1 3 104
98 Houston Baptist 12.10 1 4 94
99 Jacksonville 12.03 1 3 108
100 Stetson 11.88 3 1 102
101 Southern Utah 11.81 0 5 107
102 Fordham 11.02 0 5 98
103 Grambling State 10.89 2 3 112
104 Eastern Illinois 10.88 1 5 96
105 Tennessee Tech 10.85 0 6 99
106 Central Connecticut State 10.79 3 3 110
107 Davidson 10.67 5 1 109
108 Southern 10.23 2 3 117
109 Bethune-Cookman 9.99 3 3 111
110 North Carolina Central 9.86 2 3 114
111 Western Carolina 9.58 3 2 101
112 North Alabama 9.40 3 3 100
113 St. Francis 9.06 2 3 105
114 Wagner 8.65 1 5 106
115 Howard 8.58 1 3 118
116 Alabama State 8.03 2 3 121
117 Morehead State 7.88 1 4 113
118 Savannah State 7.68 1 4 123
119 Robert Morris 7.45 1 4 116
120 Texas Southern 6.48 1 4 115
121 Hampton 6.29 2 3 119
122 Valparaiso 4.23 0 5 120
123 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 2.68 1 5 122
124 Delaware State 2.33 0 5 124
125 Mississippi Valley State 2.26 0 4 125

RANK CONFERENCE RATING
1 COLONIAL 30.40
2 MISSOURI VALLEY 29.70
3 IVY LEAGUE 27.56
4 SOUTHERN 26.72
5 BIG SKY 24.52
6 SOUTHLAND 22.66
7 OHIO VALLEY 21.41
8 BIG SOUTH 20.96
9 PATRIOT 19.33
10 MID-EASTERN 13.86
11 NORTHEAST 13.15
12 PIONEER 13.10
13 SOUTHWESTERN 10.65