Week 6 FCS Football Power Rankings

October 6, 2019 · Jason Groomes
 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings – Week 6
 
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.
 
RANK TEAM RATING Won Lost Prev RANK CONFERENCE RATING
1 North Dakota State 51.79 5 0 1 1 MISSOURI VALLEY 29.75
2 Montana 44.16 5 1 4 2 COLONIAL 28.70
3 James Madison 43.19 5 1 3 3 SOUTHERN 24.78
4 South Dakota State 39.58 4 1 8 4 BIG SKY 24.62
5 Towson 38.80 3 2 6 5 OHIO VALLEY 22.64
6 Weber State 38.22 3 2 5 6 IVY LEAGUE 22.62
7 Furman 37.50 4 2 15 7 SOUTHLAND 22.27
8 Central Arkansas 36.92 3 2 2 8 PATRIOT 20.55
9 Northern Iowa 35.34 3 2 24 9 BIG SOUTH 17.72
10 Youngstown State 34.62 4 1 7 10 NORTHEAST 15.50
11 UC Davis 33.58 2 4 10 11 SOUTHWESTERN 12.25
12 Villanova 33.36 6 0 11 12 MID-EASTERN 11.75
13 Tennessee-Martin 33.03 3 2 19 13 PIONEER 10.66
14 Wofford 32.05 3 2 27
15 Yale 32.03 3 0 18
16 North Dakota 31.78 3 2 13
17 Montana State 31.52 5 1 26
18 Southeastern Louisiana 31.34 3 2 16
19 South Dakota 31.29 2 3 29
20 Austin Peay 30.02 3 2 12
21 Samford 29.48 3 3 9
22 Delaware 29.35 3 2 23
23 Sam Houston State 29.23 4 2 28
24 Southern Illinois 28.97 2 3 30
25 Columbia 28.88 1 2 14
26 Southeast Missouri State 28.70 3 2 39
27 Georgetown 28.22 4 1 22
28 Elon 27.57 2 4 21
29 Maine 27.49 2 3 25
30 Jacksonville State 27.26 4 2 17
31 Illinois State 27.17 3 2 31
32 New Hampshire 26.86 3 2 78
33 McNeese 26.63 3 3 38
34 Dartmouth 26.25 3 0 20
35 Stony Brook 26.23 4 2 42
36 Sacramento State 26.00 3 2 32
37 Nicholls 25.75 3 2 47
38 Holy Cross 25.07 2 3 33
39 Central Connecticut State 24.49 4 1 45
40 William & Mary 24.37 2 4 46
41 Cal Poly 23.66 2 3 74
42 East Tennessee State 23.23 2 4 41
43 Davidson 23.15 4 1 53
44 Idaho State 23.08 2 3 44
45 Cornell 23.06 1 2 51
46 Monmouth 22.77 3 2 35
47 Northern Arizona 22.73 3 3 54
48 Princeton 22.65 3 0 43
49 Albany 22.50 3 3 56
50 Mercer 22.40 2 4 36
51 Dayton 22.27 3 1 67
52 Incarnate Word 22.25 3 2 76
53 The Citadel 22.16 2 4 37
54 Campbell 22.06 4 1 40
55 Rhode Island 21.91 1 4 62
56 Southern 21.82 2 3 59
57 Murray State 21.56 3 3 48
58 Fordham 21.39 2 4 66
59 Harvard 21.25 2 1 64
60 Chattanooga 21.16 3 3 65
61 Abilene Christian 20.58 2 4 57
62 Kennesaw State 20.54 4 1 55
63 North Carolina A&T 20.37 4 1 49
64 North Alabama 20.27 2 4 63
65 Richmond 20.17 2 3 58
66 Eastern Washington 19.72 2 4 52
67 Lehigh 19.62 2 3 50
68 Eastern Kentucky 19.26 3 3 61
69 Duquesne 19.14 3 2 60
70 Indiana State 19.03 2 3 34
71 Missouri State 18.24 1 3 75
72 Alcorn State 18.17 4 2 86
73 Idaho 17.34 2 4 69
74 Bucknell 16.82 0 5 73
75 Portland State 16.65 2 3 71
76 Penn 16.63 1 2 81
77 Houston Baptist 16.56 4 2 87
78 Eastern Illinois 16.50 0 6 68
79 Tennessee Tech 16.13 4 2 72
80 South Carolina State 16.03 3 1 93
81 Gardner-Webb 15.88 2 3 85
82 Virginia Military 15.85 3 3 90
83 Northern Colorado 15.84 1 5 82
84 San Diego 15.74 2 2 89
85 St. Francis 15.71 3 2 83
86 Lamar 15.15 3 3 91
87 Colgate 15.06 0 6 77
88 Prairie View A&M 15.01 2 3 92
89 Florida A&M 14.75 4 1 84
90 Tennessee State 14.58 1 5 103
91 Western Illinois 14.46 0 5 70
92 Sacred Heart 13.47 3 2 100
93 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 13.34 4 2 79
94 Lafayette 13.26 0 5 80
95 Southern Utah 12.80 1 5 88
96 Alabama State 12.36 2 3 95
97 Grambling State 12.28 1 4 97
98 Stephen F. Austin 12.20 1 5 106
99 Bethune-Cookman 11.84 4 1 96
100 Alabama A&M 11.65 4 2 94
101 Hampton 11.32 3 2 112
102 Presbyterian 11.25 0 5 104
103 Charleston Southern 11.16 1 4 102
104 Marist 11.03 1 4 98
105 North Carolina Central 10.74 2 4 108
106 Bryant 10.64 1 5 101
107 Morehead State 10.31 2 3 109
108 Merrimack 10.17 2 4 99
109 Western Carolina 10.11 1 4 107
110 Norfolk State 9.67 1 5 105
111 Long Island 9.59 0 4 115
112 Mississippi Valley State 9.46 1 4 116
113 Stetson 9.40 4 1 113
114 Delaware State 9.27 1 4 110
115 Jacksonville 8.85 2 3 119
116 Robert Morris 8.58 1 4 114
117 Drake 8.40 2 3 120
118 Brown 7.93 1 2 121
119 Wagner 7.49 1 5 118
120 Northwestern State 7.44 0 5 117
121 Howard 7.05 1 5 111
122 Morgan State 5.34 0 5 123
123 Butler 5.32 1 4 124
124 Texas Southern 3.85 0 5 125
125 Jackson State 3.31 1 4 122
126 Valparaiso 0.23 0 5 126