Week 9 FCS Football Power Rankings

October 27, 2019 · Jason Groomes
 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings – Week 9
 
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 53.28 8 0 1 1 MISSOURI VALLEY 30.04
2 James Madison 44.61 8 1 2 2 COLONIAL 29.40
3 South Dakota State 44.54 6 2 4 3 SOUTHERN 27.00
4 Montana 41.06 6 2 3 4 BIG SKY 25.71
5 Weber State 37.36 6 2 8 5 OHIO VALLEY 24.85
6 Central Arkansas 36.49 6 2 12 6 SOUTHLAND 24.54
7 Sacramento State 34.92 6 2 5 7 IVY LEAGUE 23.14
8 Dartmouth 34.78 6 0 10 8 BIG SOUTH 21.86
9 Furman 34.75 5 3 6 9 PATRIOT 21.20
10 Towson 34.67 4 4 11 10 NORTHEAST 17.83
11 Northern Iowa 34.61 5 3 9 11 MID-EASTERN 14.18
12 Villanova 34.27 6 2 7 12 SOUTHWESTERN 13.90
13 Austin Peay 33.43 5 3 24 13 PIONEER 13.77
14 Southern Illinois 33.27 4 4 13
15 Wofford 33.10 5 2 16
16 Southeastern Louisiana 32.90 4 3 28
17 Youngstown State 32.89 5 3 17
18 Elon 32.83 4 4 14
19 UC Davis 32.25 4 5 18
20 New Hampshire 32.15 4 3 20
21 Tennessee-Martin 32.07 5 3 15
22 Illinois State 31.69 6 2 26
23 Sam Houston State 31.34 5 4 19
24 Southeast Missouri State 31.00 5 3 27
25 North Dakota 30.14 5 3 25
26 McNeese 30.09 5 4 23
27 The Citadel 29.37 5 4 31
28 Yale 29.08 5 1 32
29 Stony Brook 28.94 5 3 35
30 Princeton 28.69 6 0 55
31 Montana State 28.47 5 3 22
32 Albany 28.19 5 3 29
33 Harvard 28.14 4 2 45
34 Samford 27.54 4 4 41
35 Abilene Christian 27.51 5 4 36
36 Monmouth 27.51 6 2 40
37 Richmond 26.94 4 4 50
38 Jacksonville State 26.84 6 3 44
39 Fordham 26.06 3 5 42
40 Central Connecticut State 26.06 7 1 39
41 Campbell 25.97 6 1 37
42 Lehigh 25.29 4 3 56
43 Delaware 25.17 4 4 34
44 Georgetown 24.88 5 3 57
45 South Dakota 24.64 3 5 33
46 East Tennessee State 24.29 2 6 51
47 Nicholls 24.16 4 4 47
48 North Carolina A&T 24.06 5 2 43
49 Incarnate Word 24.00 5 3 30
50 Maine 23.96 3 5 54
51 Holy Cross 23.84 4 4 46
52 Chattanooga 23.79 4 4 60
53 San Diego 23.65 5 2 62
54 Murray State 23.64 4 5 59
55 Eastern Kentucky 23.61 5 3 48
56 Mercer 23.59 3 5 53
57 Virginia Military 23.16 4 4 65
58 Kennesaw State 23.13 7 1 58
59 Idaho State 23.11 3 5 38
60 Northern Arizona 22.89 4 4 69
61 Cal Poly 22.48 2 6 64
62 Columbia 22.18 2 4 21
63 South Carolina State 22.07 5 2 84
64 William & Mary 21.95 2 6 49
65 Idaho 21.84 3 5 63
66 Lamar 21.16 4 4 72
67 Florida A&M 21.08 7 1 74
68 Indiana State 21.05 3 5 70
69 Gardner-Webb 20.92 3 5 80
70 Davidson 20.82 5 3 52
71 Southern 20.75 4 4 67
72 Grambling State 20.47 3 4 79
73 Alcorn State 20.44 6 2 78
74 Dayton 20.30 4 3 68
75 Portland State 20.25 5 4 71
76 Rhode Island 20.24 1 7 66
77 Tennessee State 19.82 2 6 81
78 Duquesne 19.78 5 2 73
79 Eastern Washington 19.65 3 5 61
80 Lafayette 18.62 1 7 76
81 Eastern Illinois 18.61 0 9 75
82 North Alabama 18.45 2 6 91
83 St. Francis 18.37 4 4 83
84 Houston Baptist 18.02 4 5 77
85 Bethune-Cookman 17.90 6 2 92
86 Southern Utah 17.68 2 7 87
87 Penn 17.62 2 4 90
88 Missouri State 17.60 1 6 82
89 Alabama State 17.31 3 4 86
90 Charleston Southern 16.88 2 6 93
91 Sacred Heart 16.78 4 4 101
92 Tennessee Tech 16.60 4 4 88
93 Cornell 16.24 2 4 89
94 Prairie View A&M 15.58 3 6 85
95 Colgate 15.46 1 8 99
96 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 15.22 5 3 96
97 Drake 15.17 4 3 111
98 Northern Colorado 14.96 1 7 97
99 Bucknell 14.31 1 7 95
100 Marist 14.02 2 5 112
101 Stetson 13.93 5 2 94
102 Western Illinois 13.82 0 8 98
103 North Carolina Central 13.34 3 5 102
104 Morehead State 13.26 4 4 100
105 Stephen F. Austin 13.02 1 7 103
106 Northwestern State 13.02 1 7 113
107 Presbyterian 12.92 0 8 105
108 Robert Morris 12.81 4 4 106
109 Merrimack 12.46 4 4 104
110 Bryant 12.44 2 7 108
111 Western Carolina 12.42 1 7 109
112 Hampton 12.35 4 4 107
113 Alabama A&M 11.90 5 3 115
114 Norfolk State 11.32 2 6 110
115 Mississippi Valley State 11.12 2 6 116
116 Morgan State 10.86 1 7 117
117 Wagner 10.24 1 7 120
118 Long Island 10.02 0 7 119
119 Brown 9.71 1 5 118
120 Jacksonville 9.63 2 6 114
121 Jackson State 7.93 4 5 123
122 Delaware State 7.66 1 7 121
123 Butler 7.44 2 6 122
124 Howard 4.27 1 7 124
125 Texas Southern 2.86 0 8 125
126 Valparaiso 2.61 1 7 126