Week 11 FCS Football Power Rankings

November 11, 2019 · Jason Groomes
 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings – Week 11
 
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 48.55 10 0 1 1 MISSOURI VALLEY 29.90
2 James Madison 44.49 9 1 2 2 COLONIAL 29.89
3 Montana 42.51 8 2 3 3 SOUTHERN 27.27
4 Dartmouth 41.53 8 0 7 4 BIG SKY 26.60
5 Weber State 40.27 8 2 5 5 OHIO VALLEY 25.88
6 South Dakota State 39.90 7 3 4 6 SOUTHLAND 24.99
7 Furman 37.58 7 3 8 7 IVY LEAGUE 24.07
8 Towson 36.83 6 4 13 8 BIG SOUTH 23.80
9 Central Arkansas 36.37 7 3 6 9 PATRIOT 22.23
10 Sacramento State 36.14 7 3 9 10 NORTHEAST 18.89
11 Villanova 35.63 7 3 15 11 MID-EASTERN 14.90
12 Austin Peay 35.53 7 3 11 12 PIONEER 14.50
13 Northern Iowa 35.26 7 3 10 13 SOUTHWESTERN 14.42
14 Illinois State 34.07 7 3 25
15 Southeastern Louisiana 33.96 6 3 29
16 Tennessee-Martin 33.83 6 4 16
17 Monmouth 33.72 8 2 20
18 UC Davis 33.48 5 5 18
19 Wofford 33.22 6 3 22
20 Southeast Missouri State 32.65 7 3 19
21 Sam Houston State 32.04 6 4 23
22 North Dakota 31.68 5 4 27
23 New Hampshire 31.66 5 4 12
24 Southern Illinois 31.38 6 4 17
25 Albany 30.61 6 4 33
26 San Diego 30.54 7 2 38
27 Montana State 30.40 7 3 31
28 McNeese 30.35 6 4 26
29 Maine 30.17 5 5 34
30 Youngstown State 30.06 5 5 14
31 The Citadel 29.87 6 4 28
32 Princeton 29.81 7 1 36
33 Yale 29.58 7 1 24
34 Kennesaw State 29.39 8 2 44
35 Jacksonville State 28.49 6 5 37
36 Elon 28.44 4 6 21
37 Nicholls 28.19 6 4 41
38 Richmond 28.06 5 5 32
39 Eastern Washington 26.99 5 5 45
40 Abilene Christian 26.65 5 5 35
41 Campbell 26.25 6 3 48
42 William & Mary 26.19 4 6 52
43 Delaware 25.94 4 6 42
44 Chattanooga 25.93 5 5 50
45 Stony Brook 25.68 5 5 39
46 Harvard 25.68 4 4 30
47 South Dakota 25.08 4 6 60
48 Central Connecticut State 24.87 9 1 49
49 Samford 24.68 4 6 46
50 Holy Cross 24.57 5 5 40
51 Mercer 24.52 4 6 47
52 Eastern Kentucky 24.44 5 5 53
53 Georgetown 23.63 5 4 59
54 Murray State 23.30 4 6 57
55 Lafayette 23.25 3 7 77
56 North Carolina A&T 23.17 6 3 43
57 Columbia 22.80 3 5 74
58 Indiana State 22.69 3 7 73
59 East Tennessee State 22.51 2 8 56
60 Florida A&M 22.48 8 1 65
61 Grambling State 22.42 5 4 79
62 Dayton 22.40 6 3 62
63 Idaho 22.38 4 6 58
64 Tennessee Tech 22.36 6 4 80
65 Cal Poly 22.36 2 7 61
66 North Alabama 22.26 3 6 68
67 Lehigh 21.99 4 5 51
68 Incarnate Word 21.95 5 5 55
69 Northern Arizona 21.79 4 6 75
70 Southern 21.72 6 4 63
71 South Carolina State 21.67 6 3 70
72 Alcorn State 21.61 6 3 71
73 Fordham 21.38 3 7 54
74 Charleston Southern 21.01 4 6 82
75 Virginia Military 20.91 4 6 69
76 St. Francis 20.90 4 6 84
77 Portland State 20.82 5 6 64
78 Duquesne 20.47 6 3 67
79 Davidson 20.37 7 3 81
80 Colgate 20.12 3 8 86
81 Sacred Heart 19.84 6 4 91
82 Idaho State 19.63 3 7 66
83 Penn 19.48 4 4 90
84 Lamar 19.18 4 6 72
85 Gardner-Webb 19.09 3 7 76
86 Bucknell 18.82 2 7 97
87 Houston Baptist 18.25 4 6 92
88 Eastern Illinois 18.22 1 9 93
89 Rhode Island 18.15 2 8 78
90 Missouri State 18.07 1 8 88
91 Southern Utah 17.75 2 8 94
92 Cornell 17.51 2 6 89
93 Alabama State 17.30 5 4 87
94 Bethune-Cookman 17.28 6 3 85
95 Western Illinois 17.07 1 9 98
96 Tennessee State 16.74 2 8 83
97 Prairie View A&M 16.63 4 5 95
98 Northern Colorado 15.84 2 8 96
99 Northwestern State 15.76 2 8 104
100 Stephen F. Austin 15.45 2 8 107
101 Western Carolina 15.25 3 7 102
102 Norfolk State 14.65 4 6 106
103 Robert Morris 14.60 6 4 110
104 Marist 14.18 3 6 99
105 Drake 14.11 5 4 105
106 Presbyterian 14.05 1 9 108
107 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 13.99 5 5 100
108 North Carolina Central 13.75 4 6 103
109 Alabama A&M 13.69 6 4 111
110 Morehead State 13.55 5 5 112
111 Bryant 12.41 2 8 113
112 Hampton 12.21 5 5 109
113 Stetson 12.20 6 3 101
114 Jacksonville 11.46 2 8 115
115 Morgan State 11.44 2 8 121
116 Wagner 11.10 1 9 114
117 Merrimack 10.97 4 5 117
118 Long Island 10.67 0 8 116
119 Brown 10.28 1 7 118
120 Delaware State 10.19 2 8 122
121 Mississippi Valley State 9.48 2 7 119
122 Jackson State 9.31 4 6 120
123 Butler 6.60 2 8 123
124 Howard 4.11 1 9 124
125 Valparaiso 3.80 1 9 125
126 Texas Southern 3.43 0 10 126