Final FCS Football Power Rankings

January 6, 2019 · Jason Groomes
 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings – Final
 
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.
 

RANK TEAM RATING Won Lost Prev RANK CONFERENCE RATING
1 North Dakota State 63.62 15 0 1 1 MISSOURI VALLEY 33.86
2 South Dakota State 51.66 10 3 3 2 COLONIAL 30.77
3 Eastern Washington 50.92 12 3 7 3 BIG SKY 28.80
4 Princeton 46.30 10 0 2 4 SOUTHERN 27.52
5 Colgate 44.54 10 2 9 5 IVY LEAGUE 27.41
6 Kennesaw State 43.97 11 2 8 6 BIG SOUTH 27.04
7 UC Davis 42.73 10 3 5 7 SOUTHLAND 25.82
8 James Madison 42.59 9 4 4 8 OHIO VALLEY 24.86
9 Nicholls 41.24 9 4 10 9 PATRIOT 22.74
10 Dartmouth 40.92 9 1 6 10 NORTHEAST 17.82
11 Weber State 39.40 10 3 14 11 PIONEER 16.96
12 Northern Iowa 39.18 7 6 12 12 MID-EASTERN 16.43
13 Jacksonville State 38.96 9 4 11 13 SOUTHWESTERN 14.35
14 Maine 38.04 10 4 26
15 Wofford 36.51 9 4 16
16 Montana State 35.15 8 5 19
17 Towson 33.60 7 5 15
18 Elon 33.58 6 5 13
19 Delaware 33.52 7 5 18
20 Illinois State 32.98 6 5 21
21 Southeast Missouri State 32.64 9 4 25
22 Stony Brook 32.36 7 5 17
23 Furman 32.19 6 4 20
24 Samford 31.22 6 5 24
25 Monmouth 31.11 8 3 23
26 Harvard 31.06 6 4 22
27 North Carolina A&T 30.80 10 2 29
28 Villanova 30.12 5 6 27
29 The Citadel 30.10 5 6 35
30 Montana 29.59 6 5 30
31 Incarnate Word 28.84 6 5 28
32 Idaho State 28.50 6 5 33
33 Western Illinois 28.44 5 6 36
34 North Dakota 28.26 6 5 34
35 New Hampshire 27.96 4 7 31
36 Rhode Island 27.84 6 5 32
37 Sam Houston State 27.71 6 5 37
38 Central Arkansas 26.88 6 5 38
39 Youngstown State 26.78 4 7 42
40 East Tennessee State 26.77 8 4 41
41 Cal Poly 26.71 5 6 46
42 Chattanooga 26.55 6 5 40
43 Lamar 25.85 7 5 43
44 McNeese 25.82 6 5 44
45 Drake 25.58 7 3 57
46 Abilene Christian 25.53 6 5 52
47 Charleston Southern 25.53 5 6 39
48 Yale 25.50 5 5 49
49 Mercer 25.28 5 6 47
50 San Diego 25.27 9 3 45
51 Holy Cross 25.23 5 6 48
52 Austin Peay 25.08 5 6 51
53 South Dakota 24.99 4 7 56
54 Eastern Kentucky 24.86 7 4 55
55 Northern Arizona 24.86 4 6 54
56 Indiana State 24.77 7 4 58
57 Southeastern Louisiana 24.70 4 7 50
58 Columbia 24.62 6 4 53
59 Sacred Heart 24.46 7 4 59
60 Northwestern State 24.40 5 6 60
61 Campbell 23.98 6 5 61
62 Alcorn State 23.94 9 4 68
63 Dayton 23.64 6 5 62
64 Duquesne 23.50 9 4 72
65 William & Mary 23.34 4 6 64
66 Penn 23.32 6 4 63
67 Tennessee State 23.31 4 5 65
68 Murray State 22.97 5 6 69
69 Georgetown 22.77 5 6 66
70 Idaho 22.48 4 7 73
71 Richmond 22.32 4 7 67
72 Southern Illinois 21.72 2 9 74
73 Tennessee-Martin 21.71 2 9 70
74 Southern 21.11 7 4 81
75 Portland State 21.05 4 7 79
76 Albany 21.04 3 8 71
77 Central Connecticut State 20.38 6 5 75
78 Missouri State 20.32 4 6 85
79 Marist 20.10 5 6 77
80 Cornell 19.96 3 7 78
81 Stetson 19.88 8 2 80
82 Lafayette 19.86 3 8 82
83 Florida A&M 19.77 6 5 84
84 Northern Colorado 19.66 2 9 88
85 Gardner-Webb 19.64 3 8 86
86 Alabama A&M 19.42 6 5 89
87 Eastern Illinois 19.32 3 8 87
88 Stephen F. Austin 19.25 2 8 83
89 South Carolina State 19.11 5 6 76
90 Prairie View A&M 18.43 5 6 93
91 St. Francis 18.21 4 7 90
92 Fordham 17.15 2 9 91
93 Grambling State 17.12 6 5 96
94 Bucknell 16.67 1 10 92
95 Jackson State 16.34 5 5 100
96 Western Carolina 16.29 3 8 95
97 Sacramento State 16.26 2 8 94
98 Presbyterian 16.01 2 8 97
99 Bethune-Cookman 15.99 7 5 98
100 Lehigh 15.69 3 8 99
101 Howard 15.50 4 6 101
102 Wagner 15.13 4 7 102
103 Southern Utah 14.70 1 10 104
104 Morgan State 14.61 4 7 103
105 North Carolina Central 14.26 5 6 111
106 Bryant 13.98 6 5 105
107 Butler 13.76 4 7 107
108 Davidson 13.60 6 5 108
109 Tennessee Tech 13.33 1 10 110
110 Norfolk State 13.31 4 7 106
111 Houston Baptist 13.30 1 10 109
112 Hampton 12.31 7 3 112
113 Savannah State 11.95 2 8 113
114 Brown 11.53 1 9 115
115 Jacksonville 11.49 2 8 114
116 Virginia Military 11.15 1 10 116
117 Morehead State 10.53 3 8 117
118 North Alabama 10.50 7 3 119
119 Delaware State 9.66 3 8 120
120 Robert Morris 9.14 2 9 121
121 Texas Southern 8.88 2 9 118
122 Alabama State 8.85 4 7 123
123 Valparaiso 8.76 2 9 122
124 Mississippi Valley State 7.27 1 10 124
125 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 4.94 2 9 125