Week 11 FCS Football Power Rankings

November 12, 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 52.81 10 0 1 1 COLONIAL 30.35
2 Princeton 45.42 9 0 2 2 MISSOURI VALLEY 30.07
3 Dartmouth 42.39 8 1 3 3 IVY LEAGUE 27.82
4 South Dakota State 41.67 7 2 4 4 SOUTHERN 27.77
5 UC Davis 41.00 8 2 5 5 BIG SOUTH 26.26
6 James Madison 40.12 7 3 6 6 BIG SKY 26.10
7 Kennesaw State 39.03 9 1 12 7 SOUTHLAND 25.48
8 Eastern Washington 38.83 8 2 15 8 OHIO VALLEY 24.12
9 Colgate 38.82 9 0 10 9 PATRIOT 21.99
10 Jacksonville State 37.45 8 2 13 10 NORTHEAST 16.69
11 Nicholls 37.41 7 3 11 11 PIONEER 16.51
12 Towson 36.57 7 3 19 12 MID-EASTERN 15.98
13 Delaware 36.32 7 3 8 13 SOUTHWESTERN 13.37
14 Elon 36.17 6 3 7
15 Stony Brook 35.14 7 3 20
16 Northern Iowa 35.07 5 5 9
17 Wofford 34.30 7 3 14
18 Monmouth 33.70 7 3 18
19 Weber State 33.42 8 2 16
20 Furman 32.63 5 4 17
21 Illinois State 31.39 5 5 21
22 Montana State 31.22 6 4 25
23 Southeast Missouri State 30.88 7 3 22
24 Incarnate Word 30.63 6 4 28
25 North Dakota 30.57 6 4 24
26 New Hampshire 30.37 4 6 27
27 Harvard 30.21 5 4 36
28 Montana 30.16 6 4 30
29 Samford 29.08 5 5 23
30 Chattanooga 28.61 6 4 32
31 Rhode Island 28.43 5 5 31
32 The Citadel 28.33 4 5 44
33 Maine 28.30 7 3 35
34 Western Illinois 28.14 5 5 29
35 East Tennessee State 28.14 8 2 37
36 Villanova 28.05 4 6 33
37 North Carolina A&T 28.02 8 2 34
38 Sam Houston State 27.88 5 5 38
39 Idaho State 27.81 6 4 26
40 Youngstown State 27.63 4 6 51
41 Yale 27.24 5 4 39
42 Southeastern Louisiana 26.58 4 6 42
43 Mercer 26.51 5 5 48
44 Cal Poly 26.04 4 6 60
45 McNeese 25.99 6 4 40
46 Abilene Christian 25.71 6 4 54
47 Columbia 25.58 5 4 46
48 Central Arkansas 25.56 5 5 43
49 Charleston Southern 25.39 4 5 53
50 Holy Cross 24.77 4 6 45
51 Campbell 24.73 6 4 57
52 San Diego 24.65 8 2 56
53 Lamar 24.48 6 4 52
54 Eastern Kentucky 24.21 6 4 55
55 South Dakota 24.20 4 6 63
56 Sacred Heart 24.19 6 4 49
57 William & Mary 23.87 4 5 62
58 Northwestern State 23.79 4 6 72
59 Drake 23.78 6 3 71
60 Murray State 23.77 5 5 73
61 Austin Peay 23.56 4 6 41
62 Indiana State 23.29 6 4 77
63 Georgetown 23.23 5 5 58
64 Dayton 23.17 5 5 64
65 Idaho 23.15 4 6 50
66 Tennessee State 23.07 3 5 59
67 Penn 22.81 6 3 47
68 Tennessee-Martin 22.80 2 8 70
69 Lafayette 21.69 3 7 74
70 Richmond 21.64 3 7 65
71 Southern Illinois 21.61 2 8 68
72 Portland State 21.20 4 6 75
73 Alcorn State 21.07 7 3 78
74 Cornell 20.91 3 6 69
75 Northern Arizona 20.91 3 6 61
76 Florida A&M 20.61 6 4 66
77 Missouri State 20.39 4 6 80
78 Duquesne 20.12 7 3 86
79 Stetson 20.09 7 2 67
80 Albany 19.97 2 8 79
81 Stephen F. Austin 19.84 2 7 76
82 Marist 19.76 5 5 81
83 South Carolina State 19.71 4 5 91
84 Northern Colorado 19.50 2 9 82
85 Gardner-Webb 19.28 3 7 83
86 Alabama A&M 19.05 5 5 84
87 Central Connecticut State 19.04 6 4 88
88 Southern 19.03 6 3 85
89 Eastern Illinois 18.26 3 7 95
90 Western Carolina 17.99 3 7 89
91 Bucknell 17.33 1 9 87
92 St. Francis 17.30 4 5 92
93 Fordham 16.97 1 9 90
94 Sacramento State 16.40 2 7 93
95 Jackson State 15.57 5 4 99
96 Howard 15.16 4 5 94
97 Grambling State 15.04 6 4 105
98 Norfolk State 14.96 4 5 101
99 Southern Utah 14.78 1 9 104
100 Presbyterian 14.73 2 7 96
101 Prairie View A&M 14.43 3 6 100
102 Bethune-Cookman 14.15 6 5 110
103 Lehigh 13.78 2 8 107
104 Butler 13.69 4 6 116
105 Bryant 13.53 5 5 97
106 Morgan State 13.50 3 7 109
107 Tennessee Tech 13.46 1 9 98
108 North Carolina Central 13.39 4 5 106
109 Houston Baptist 13.38 1 9 108
110 Wagner 13.14 3 7 115
111 Virginia Military 12.86 1 9 102
112 Davidson 12.85 5 5 112
113 Jacksonville 11.98 2 7 103
114 Brown 11.79 1 8 111
115 Hampton 11.67 6 3 114
116 Savannah State 11.52 2 7 117
117 Morehead State 10.69 3 7 113
118 Texas Southern 10.41 2 7 118
119 North Alabama 9.89 7 3 119
120 Robert Morris 9.43 2 8 122
121 Alabama State 9.37 3 6 120
122 Delaware State 8.76 2 8 121
123 Valparaiso 8.32 2 8 123
124 Mississippi Valley State 7.24 1 8 124
125 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3.69 1 9 125