Week 10 FCS Football Power Rankings

November 4, 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 Won Lost Prev RANK CONFERENCE RATING
1 North Dakota State 52.88 9 0 1 1 COLONIAL 30.24
2 Princeton 46.13 8 0 3 2 MISSOURI VALLEY 29.98
3 Dartmouth 44.41 7 1 4 3 IVY LEAGUE 28.37
4 South Dakota State 43.97 6 2 7 4 SOUTHERN 27.83
5 UC Davis 43.39 8 1 5 5 BIG SKY 26.04
6 James Madison 39.72 6 3 2 6 BIG SOUTH 25.43
7 Elon 39.35 6 2 8 7 SOUTHLAND 25.03
8 Delaware 38.63 7 2 6 8 OHIO VALLEY 23.72
9 Northern Iowa 38.38 5 4 12 9 PATRIOT 21.82
10 Colgate 37.93 8 0 9 10 NORTHEAST 16.01
11 Nicholls 36.66 6 3 10 11 PIONEER 15.97
12 Kennesaw State 36.04 8 1 24 12 MID-EASTERN 15.44
13 Jacksonville State 35.78 7 2 11 13 SOUTHWESTERN 12.98
14 Wofford 34.82 6 3 14
15 Eastern Washington 34.70 7 2 16
16 Weber State 33.39 7 2 13
17 Furman 33.30 4 4 23
18 Monmouth 33.25 7 2 20
19 Towson 32.68 6 3 18
20 Stony Brook 32.62 6 3 15
21 Illinois State 32.61 5 4 17
22 Southeast Missouri State 31.57 7 2 27
23 Samford 31.09 5 4 32
24 North Dakota 31.05 5 4 19
25 Montana State 30.99 5 4 25
26 Idaho State 30.72 6 3 21
27 New Hampshire 30.17 3 6 40
28 Incarnate Word 30.10 5 4 36
29 Western Illinois 30.09 5 4 22
30 Montana 29.68 5 4 26
31 Rhode Island 29.22 5 4 31
32 Chattanooga 29.04 6 3 30
33 Villanova 28.23 4 5 37
34 North Carolina A&T 27.77 7 2 39
35 Maine 27.75 6 3 50
36 Harvard 27.53 4 4 41
37 East Tennessee State 27.50 8 2 44
38 Sam Houston State 27.30 5 4 29
39 Yale 27.05 5 3 35
40 McNeese 26.78 6 3 33
41 Austin Peay 26.66 4 5 38
42 Southeastern Louisiana 26.25 4 6 53
43 Central Arkansas 26.21 5 4 34
44 The Citadel 26.07 3 5 42
45 Holy Cross 25.67 3 6 60
46 Columbia 25.48 4 4 28
47 Penn 25.38 6 2 47
48 Mercer 24.87 4 5 69
49 Sacred Heart 24.81 6 3 43
50 Idaho 24.65 4 5 63
51 Youngstown State 24.26 3 6 65
52 Lamar 24.25 5 4 66
53 Charleston Southern 24.17 3 5 49
54 Abilene Christian 24.00 5 4 61
55 Eastern Kentucky 23.59 5 4 59
56 San Diego 23.56 7 2 72
57 Campbell 23.34 5 4 57
58 Georgetown 23.26 4 5 52
59 Tennessee State 22.76 3 4 71
60 Cal Poly 22.75 3 6 56
61 Northern Arizona 22.68 3 6 76
62 William & Mary 22.59 3 5 51
63 South Dakota 22.46 3 6 55
64 Dayton 22.27 4 5 62
65 Richmond 22.05 3 6 48
66 Florida A&M 22.04 6 3 46
67 Stetson 21.93 7 1 77
68 Southern Illinois 21.78 2 7 54
69 Cornell 21.64 3 5 73
70 Tennessee-Martin 21.64 1 8 78
71 Drake 21.56 5 3 75
72 Northwestern State 21.46 3 6 67
73 Murray State 21.29 4 5 45
74 Lafayette 21.27 3 6 58
75 Portland State 21.19 4 5 81
76 Stephen F. Austin 20.99 2 6 74
77 Indiana State 20.89 5 4 79
78 Alcorn State 20.72 7 3 64
79 Albany 20.26 2 7 82
80 Missouri State 19.79 4 5 68
81 Marist 19.64 5 4 80
82 Northern Colorado 19.48 2 7 70
83 Gardner-Webb 19.31 3 6 88
84 Alabama A&M 19.31 5 4 86
85 Southern 18.74 5 3 84
86 Duquesne 18.14 6 3 87
87 Bucknell 17.77 1 8 83
88 Central Connecticut State 17.70 5 4 85
89 Western Carolina 17.43 3 6 90
90 Fordham 17.07 1 8 91
91 South Carolina State 17.04 3 5 89
92 St. Francis 16.70 4 5 98
93 Sacramento State 16.40 2 7 93
94 Howard 16.21 4 4 101
95 Eastern Illinois 15.30 2 7 94
96 Presbyterian 14.71 2 6 96
97 Bryant 14.59 5 4 92
98 Tennessee Tech 14.52 1 8 110
99 Jackson State 14.37 4 4 104
100 Prairie View A&M 14.05 3 6 95
101 Norfolk State 13.46 3 5 97
102 Virginia Military 13.40 1 8 100
103 Jacksonville 13.39 2 6 109
104 Southern Utah 13.39 1 8 102
105 Grambling State 13.30 5 4 99
106 North Carolina Central 13.06 4 4 105
107 Lehigh 13.01 2 7 117
108 Houston Baptist 12.85 1 8 111
109 Morgan State 12.72 2 7 103
110 Bethune-Cookman 12.50 5 5 108
111 Brown 12.21 1 7 106
112 Davidson 11.97 5 4 114
113 Morehead State 11.93 3 6 113
114 Hampton 11.54 5 3 116
115 Wagner 11.03 2 7 118
116 Butler 10.80 3 6 112
117 Savannah State 10.79 2 6 107
118 Texas Southern 10.68 2 7 115
119 North Alabama 10.00 6 3 119
120 Alabama State 9.38 3 5 121
121 Delaware State 8.49 2 7 123
122 Robert Morris 8.46 2 7 120
123 Valparaiso 6.85 1 8 122
124 Mississippi Valley State 6.53 1 7 124
125 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3.63 1 8 125