Week 10 FCS Football Power Rankings

November 3, 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 52.92 9 0 1 1 MISSOURI VALLEY 29.89
2 James Madison 42.50 8 1 2 2 COLONIAL 29.88
3 Montana 41.55 7 2 4 3 SOUTHERN 26.96
4 South Dakota State 40.83 7 2 3 4 BIG SKY 26.29
5 Weber State 39.72 7 2 5 5 OHIO VALLEY 25.61
6 Central Arkansas 37.82 7 2 6 6 SOUTHLAND 24.55
7 Dartmouth 37.63 7 0 8 7 IVY LEAGUE 23.99
8 Furman 36.24 6 3 9 8 BIG SOUTH 22.75
9 Sacramento State 36.22 6 3 7 9 PATRIOT 21.85
10 Northern Iowa 35.84 6 3 11 10 NORTHEAST 18.19
11 Austin Peay 35.58 6 3 13 11 MID-EASTERN 14.61
12 New Hampshire 35.04 5 3 20 12 PIONEER 14.21
13 Towson 34.76 5 4 10 13 SOUTHWESTERN 14.19
14 Youngstown State 34.23 5 4 17
15 Villanova 33.95 6 3 12
16 Tennessee-Martin 33.62 6 3 21
17 Southern Illinois 32.62 5 4 14
18 UC Davis 32.12 4 5 19
19 Southeast Missouri State 32.12 6 3 24
20 Monmouth 31.85 7 2 36
21 Elon 31.50 4 5 18
22 Wofford 31.26 5 3 15
23 Sam Houston State 31.12 5 4 23
24 Yale 31.10 6 1 28
25 Illinois State 30.86 6 3 22
26 McNeese 30.11 6 4 26
27 North Dakota 30.01 5 3 25
28 The Citadel 29.94 6 4 27
29 Southeastern Louisiana 29.90 5 3 16
30 Harvard 29.56 4 3 33
31 Montana State 29.39 6 3 31
32 Richmond 28.92 5 4 37
33 Albany 28.89 5 4 32
34 Maine 28.39 4 5 50
35 Abilene Christian 28.01 5 4 35
36 Princeton 28.00 7 0 30
37 Jacksonville State 27.99 6 4 38
38 San Diego 26.76 6 2 53
39 Stony Brook 26.70 5 4 29
40 Holy Cross 26.41 5 4 51
41 Nicholls 26.06 5 4 47
42 Delaware 26.04 4 5 43
43 North Carolina A&T 25.82 6 2 48
44 Kennesaw State 25.76 7 2 58
45 Eastern Washington 25.72 4 5 79
46 Samford 25.54 4 5 34
47 Mercer 24.97 4 5 56
48 Campbell 24.72 6 2 41
49 Central Connecticut State 24.01 8 1 40
50 Chattanooga 23.96 4 5 52
51 Lehigh 23.71 4 4 42
52 William & Mary 23.70 3 6 64
53 Eastern Kentucky 23.62 5 4 55
54 Fordham 23.29 3 6 39
55 Incarnate Word 23.20 5 4 49
56 East Tennessee State 23.17 2 7 46
57 Murray State 22.92 4 6 54
58 Idaho 22.86 4 5 65
59 Georgetown 22.63 5 4 44
60 South Dakota 22.46 3 6 45
61 Cal Poly 22.06 2 7 61
62 Dayton 21.91 5 3 74
63 Southern 21.84 5 4 71
64 Portland State 21.78 5 5 75
65 Florida A&M 21.74 8 1 67
66 Idaho State 21.72 3 6 59
67 Duquesne 21.69 6 2 78
68 North Alabama 21.65 3 6 82
69 Virginia Military 21.45 4 5 57
70 South Carolina State 21.33 5 3 63
71 Alcorn State 21.20 6 2 73
72 Lamar 21.16 4 5 66
73 Indiana State 21.14 3 6 68
74 Columbia 20.88 2 5 62
75 Northern Arizona 20.81 4 5 60
76 Gardner-Webb 20.65 3 6 69
77 Lafayette 20.61 2 7 80
78 Rhode Island 20.60 2 7 76
79 Grambling State 20.14 4 4 72
80 Tennessee Tech 19.73 5 4 92
81 Davidson 19.69 6 3 70
82 Charleston Southern 19.25 3 6 90
83 Tennessee State 19.16 2 7 77
84 St. Francis 18.90 4 5 83
85 Bethune-Cookman 18.70 6 2 85
86 Colgate 18.52 2 8 95
87 Alabama State 18.35 4 4 89
88 Missouri State 18.33 1 7 88
89 Cornell 18.27 2 5 93
90 Penn 18.19 3 4 87
91 Sacred Heart 18.17 5 4 91
92 Houston Baptist 17.83 4 5 84
93 Eastern Illinois 17.73 0 9 81
94 Southern Utah 17.22 2 8 86
95 Prairie View A&M 16.80 3 6 94
96 Northern Colorado 16.09 2 7 98
97 Bucknell 15.60 1 7 99
98 Western Illinois 15.59 1 8 102
99 Marist 15.09 3 5 100
100 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 14.85 5 4 96
101 Stetson 14.82 6 2 101
102 Western Carolina 14.43 2 7 111
103 North Carolina Central 14.26 4 5 103
104 Northwestern State 13.91 1 8 106
105 Drake 13.89 4 4 97
106 Norfolk State 13.62 3 6 114
107 Stephen F. Austin 13.32 1 8 105
108 Presbyterian 12.75 0 9 107
109 Hampton 12.65 5 4 112
110 Robert Morris 12.63 5 4 108
111 Alabama A&M 12.53 5 4 113
112 Morehead State 12.53 4 5 104
113 Bryant 12.19 2 8 110
114 Wagner 11.64 1 8 117
115 Jacksonville 11.02 2 7 120
116 Long Island 10.74 0 8 118
117 Merrimack 10.48 4 5 109
118 Brown 10.28 1 6 119
119 Mississippi Valley State 10.24 2 7 115
120 Jackson State 9.83 5 5 121
121 Morgan State 9.04 1 8 116
122 Delaware State 8.44 1 8 122
123 Butler 7.25 2 7 123
124 Howard 4.61 1 8 124
125 Valparaiso 3.31 1 8 126
126 Texas Southern 2.57 0 9 125