Week 7 FCS Football Power Rankings

October 13, 2019 · Jason Groomes
 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings – Week 7
 
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 51.23 6 0 1 1 MISSOURI VALLEY 29.92
2 Montana 48.66 5 1 2 2 COLONIAL 29.30
3 James Madison 47.08 6 1 3 3 SOUTHERN 25.42
4 South Dakota State 42.20 5 1 4 4 BIG SKY 25.07
5 Central Arkansas 38.46 4 2 8 5 IVY LEAGUE 23.22
6 Furman 37.70 4 2 7 6 OHIO VALLEY 23.20
7 Tennessee-Martin 36.03 4 2 13 7 SOUTHLAND 23.10
8 Northern Iowa 34.80 3 3 9 8 PATRIOT 20.74
9 UC Davis 34.52 3 4 11 9 BIG SOUTH 18.86
10 Dartmouth 34.10 4 0 34 10 NORTHEAST 15.64
11 Villanova 34.06 6 1 12 11 SOUTHWESTERN 12.52
12 Weber State 33.82 4 2 6 12 MID-EASTERN 12.49
13 Youngstown State 33.40 4 2 10 13 PIONEER 11.77
14 New Hampshire 32.92 4 2 32
15 Austin Peay 32.86 4 2 20
16 Sacramento State 32.77 4 2 36
17 Elon 32.72 3 4 28
18 South Dakota 32.65 3 3 19
19 Wofford 32.38 3 2 14
20 Towson 31.77 3 3 5
21 Illinois State 30.93 4 2 31
22 Southeastern Louisiana 29.75 3 3 18
23 Yale 29.40 3 1 15
24 Albany 29.16 4 3 49
25 Montana State 28.95 5 2 17
26 North Dakota 28.39 3 3 16
27 Stony Brook 28.13 4 3 35
28 Idaho State 27.81 3 3 44
29 Sam Houston State 27.74 4 3 23
30 Southern Illinois 27.50 2 4 24
31 Holy Cross 26.46 3 3 38
32 Samford 26.46 3 4 21
33 Southeast Missouri State 26.44 3 3 26
34 McNeese 26.39 3 4 33
35 Fordham 25.89 3 4 58
36 Abilene Christian 25.74 3 4 61
37 Jacksonville State 25.46 5 2 30
38 Columbia 25.19 1 3 25
39 Monmouth 25.10 4 2 46
40 East Tennessee State 24.71 2 4 42
41 Delaware 24.69 3 3 22
42 Georgetown 24.22 4 2 27
43 Central Connecticut State 24.00 5 1 39
44 Richmond 23.97 3 3 65
45 Incarnate Word 23.81 4 2 52
46 Nicholls 23.24 4 2 37
47 Kennesaw State 23.17 5 1 62
48 Maine 23.01 2 4 29
49 North Carolina A&T 22.73 4 1 63
50 San Diego 22.66 3 2 84
51 Chattanooga 22.56 3 3 60
52 William & Mary 22.49 2 4 40
53 The Citadel 22.48 3 4 53
54 Harvard 22.39 3 1 59
55 Mercer 21.95 2 4 50
56 Eastern Washington 21.70 3 4 66
57 Murray State 21.61 4 3 57
58 Princeton 21.57 4 0 48
59 Eastern Kentucky 21.55 3 3 68
60 Southern 21.48 3 3 56
61 Northern Arizona 21.13 3 3 47
62 Dayton 21.10 4 1 51
63 Campbell 20.76 4 1 54
64 Penn 20.55 2 2 76
65 Virginia Military 20.52 4 3 82
66 Rhode Island 20.51 1 5 55
67 Davidson 20.28 4 2 43
68 Cal Poly 20.15 2 4 41
69 Portland State 20.01 3 3 75
70 Indiana State 19.83 3 3 70
71 Duquesne 19.56 3 2 69
72 Eastern Illinois 19.26 0 7 78
73 Cornell 19.06 1 3 45
74 North Alabama 18.97 2 4 64
75 Lehigh 18.95 2 3 67
76 Lamar 18.57 4 3 86
77 Gardner-Webb 18.17 3 3 81
78 Bucknell 17.99 1 5 74
79 Houston Baptist 17.47 4 3 77
80 South Carolina State 17.37 3 2 80
81 Idaho 17.32 2 5 73
82 Florida A&M 17.32 5 1 89
83 Alcorn State 17.22 5 2 72
84 Grambling State 16.87 2 4 97
85 Missouri State 16.55 1 4 71
86 Lafayette 16.48 0 6 94
87 Prairie View A&M 15.76 2 4 88
88 Tennessee State 15.35 1 6 90
89 St. Francis 15.23 3 3 85
90 Alabama State 15.15 3 3 96
91 Southern Utah 15.08 1 6 95
92 Bethune-Cookman 14.71 5 1 99
93 Tennessee Tech 14.67 4 3 79
94 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 14.53 5 2 93
95 Western Illinois 14.30 0 6 91
96 Northern Colorado 13.95 1 6 83
97 Charleston Southern 13.59 1 5 103
98 Sacred Heart 13.58 3 3 92
99 Colgate 13.26 0 7 87
100 North Carolina Central 13.07 2 5 105
101 Stephen F. Austin 12.71 1 5 98
102 Morehead State 12.60 3 3 107
103 Western Carolina 11.43 1 5 109
104 Robert Morris 11.43 2 4 116
105 Bryant 11.30 2 5 106
106 Marist 11.05 1 4 104
107 Merrimack 10.97 2 4 108
108 Presbyterian 10.93 0 6 102
109 Hampton 10.75 3 3 101
110 Norfolk State 10.75 2 5 110
111 Alabama A&M 10.60 4 3 100
112 Jacksonville 10.45 2 4 115
113 Drake 10.43 3 3 117
114 Mississippi Valley State 10.23 1 5 112
115 Brown 10.22 1 3 118
116 Morgan State 9.24 1 5 122
117 Long Island 9.21 0 5 111
118 Stetson 9.19 4 1 113
119 Northwestern State 8.71 0 6 120
120 Wagner 7.82 1 5 119
121 Delaware State 6.55 1 5 114
122 Howard 5.69 1 6 121
123 Butler 4.79 1 5 123
124 Jackson State 4.29 1 5 125
125 Texas Southern 1.23 0 6 124
126 Valparaiso 0.73 0 6 126