Week 12 FCS Football Power Rankings

November 17, 2019 · Jason Groomes
 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings – Week 12
 
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 48.33 11 0 1 1 COLONIAL 30.35
2 James Madison 47.19 10 1 2 2 MISSOURI VALLEY 29.91
3 Montana 44.34 9 2 3 3 SOUTHERN 27.16
4 South Dakota State 41.90 8 3 6 4 BIG SKY 26.61
5 Weber State 38.83 8 3 5 5 OHIO VALLEY 26.39
6 Towson 37.84 7 4 8 6 SOUTHLAND 24.97
7 Dartmouth 37.09 8 1 4 7 BIG SOUTH 24.59
8 Monmouth 36.86 9 2 17 8 IVY LEAGUE 24.37
9 Austin Peay 36.79 8 3 12 9 PATRIOT 22.65
10 Furman 36.59 7 4 7 10 NORTHEAST 19.87
11 Central Arkansas 36.11 8 3 9 11 MID-EASTERN 15.59
12 Wofford 35.85 7 3 19 12 SOUTHWESTERN 14.74
13 Sacramento State 35.79 8 3 10 13 PIONEER 14.71
14 Southeastern Louisiana 34.71 7 3 15
15 Villanova 34.61 8 3 11
16 Northern Iowa 33.68 7 4 13
17 Tennessee-Martin 33.65 7 4 16
18 Yale 33.11 8 1 33
19 Illinois State 32.88 8 3 14
20 UC Davis 32.82 5 6 18
21 Albany 32.29 7 4 25
22 Southeast Missouri State 32.01 8 3 20
23 Kennesaw State 31.96 9 2 34
24 Montana State 31.85 8 3 27
25 Southern Illinois 31.23 7 4 24
26 New Hampshire 31.13 5 5 23
27 San Diego 30.35 8 2 26
28 McNeese 30.29 6 5 28
29 Maine 30.23 6 5 29
30 North Dakota 29.76 6 4 22
31 The Citadel 29.61 6 5 31
32 Nicholls 29.56 7 4 37
33 Jacksonville State 29.21 6 5 35
34 Princeton 29.07 7 2 32
35 Sam Houston State 29.01 6 5 21
36 Richmond 28.44 5 6 38
37 Youngstown State 27.88 5 6 30
38 Elon 27.81 4 6 36
39 Central Connecticut State 27.33 10 1 48
40 Delaware 27.31 5 6 43
41 Chattanooga 27.17 6 5 44
42 Eastern Kentucky 27.02 6 5 52
43 William & Mary 26.27 4 7 42
44 Eastern Washington 26.27 6 5 39
45 Campbell 26.13 6 4 41
46 North Carolina A&T 25.93 7 3 56
47 Abilene Christian 25.92 5 6 40
48 South Dakota 25.80 4 7 47
49 Holy Cross 25.57 6 5 50
50 Stony Brook 25.13 5 6 45
51 Samford 24.74 5 6 49
52 Harvard 24.73 4 5 46
53 Indiana State 24.16 4 7 58
54 East Tennessee State 23.36 3 8 59
55 Lehigh 23.31 4 6 67
56 Florida A&M 23.29 9 1 60
57 Dayton 23.14 7 3 62
58 South Carolina State 22.94 7 3 71
59 Alcorn State 22.90 7 3 72
60 Grambling State 22.87 6 4 61
61 Tennessee Tech 22.66 6 5 64
62 Cal Poly 22.66 2 8 65
63 North Alabama 22.62 4 6 66
64 Mercer 22.62 4 7 51
65 Murray State 22.58 4 7 54
66 Georgetown 22.40 5 5 53
67 Davidson 22.39 8 3 79
68 Lafayette 22.26 3 8 55
69 Southern 22.09 7 4 70
70 Idaho 22.03 4 7 63
71 Sacred Heart 21.67 7 4 81
72 Colgate 21.47 4 8 80
73 St. Francis 21.44 5 6 76
74 Charleston Southern 21.36 5 6 74
75 Bucknell 21.14 3 7 86
76 Penn 21.07 5 4 83
77 Northern Arizona 20.77 4 7 69
78 Portland State 20.77 5 6 77
79 Cornell 20.60 3 6 92
80 Fordham 20.44 3 8 73
81 Incarnate Word 20.25 5 6 68
82 Idaho State 19.81 3 8 82
83 Virginia Military 19.64 4 7 75
84 Columbia 19.47 3 6 57
85 Houston Baptist 19.40 5 6 87
86 Eastern Illinois 19.11 1 10 88
87 Lamar 19.04 4 7 84
88 Rhode Island 18.88 2 9 89
89 Duquesne 18.88 6 4 78
90 Missouri State 18.87 1 9 90
91 Gardner-Webb 18.58 3 8 85
92 Southern Utah 18.05 3 8 91
93 Northwestern State 17.57 3 8 99
94 Tennessee State 17.25 2 9 96
95 Western Illinois 17.08 1 10 95
96 Prairie View A&M 16.80 5 5 97
97 Bethune-Cookman 16.63 6 4 94
98 Alabama State 16.54 5 5 93
99 Northern Colorado 16.38 2 9 98
100 Norfolk State 15.35 5 6 102
101 Stephen F. Austin 15.28 2 9 100
102 Robert Morris 14.94 6 5 103
103 Western Carolina 14.86 3 8 101
104 Bryant 14.58 3 8 111
105 Alabama A&M 14.43 6 5 109
106 Presbyterian 14.40 1 10 106
107 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 14.35 5 5 107
108 Drake 14.33 5 5 105
109 North Carolina Central 14.04 4 7 108
110 Morehead State 13.61 5 6 110
111 Marist 13.21 3 7 104
112 Stetson 12.86 6 4 113
113 Brown 12.78 2 7 119
114 Hampton 12.73 5 6 112
115 Morgan State 12.45 3 8 115
116 Merrimack 11.97 5 5 117
117 Jacksonville 11.94 3 8 114
118 Long Island 11.21 0 9 118
119 Delaware State 10.49 2 9 120
120 Wagner 10.09 1 10 116
121 Jackson State 9.37 4 7 122
122 Mississippi Valley State 8.84 2 8 121
123 Butler 7.09 3 8 123
124 Howard 4.40 1 10 124
125 Valparaiso 4.04 1 10 125
126 Texas Southern 3.53 0 10 126