Week 13 FCS Football Power Rankings

November 24, 2019 · Jason Groomes
 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings – Week 13
 
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 48.12 12 0 1 1 COLONIAL 30.24
2 James Madison 44.91 11 1 2 2 MISSOURI VALLEY 29.71
3 Montana 41.68 9 3 3 3 BIG SKY 26.71
4 South Dakota State 39.43 8 4 4 4 SOUTHERN 26.09
5 Weber State 38.65 9 3 5 5 OHIO VALLEY 26.01
6 Monmouth 37.93 10 2 8 6 BIG SOUTH 25.18
7 Central Arkansas 36.76 9 3 11 7 SOUTHLAND 24.99
8 Sacramento State 36.75 9 3 13 8 IVY LEAGUE 24.77
9 Wofford 36.27 8 3 12 9 PATRIOT 23.09
10 Towson 35.39 7 5 6 10 NORTHEAST 20.59
11 Austin Peay 35.29 9 3 9 11 MID-EASTERN 15.89
12 Dartmouth 35.24 9 1 7 13 PIONEER 15.16
13 Furman 34.82 8 4 10 12 SOUTHWESTERN 14.96
14 Montana State 34.61 9 3 24
15 Villanova 34.38 9 3 15
16 Southeastern Louisiana 33.75 7 4 14
17 Northern Iowa 33.36 8 4 16
18 New Hampshire 32.78 6 5 26
19 Yale 32.65 9 1 18
20 UC Davis 32.64 5 7 20
21 Albany 32.62 8 4 21
22 Kennesaw State 32.44 10 2 23
23 Southern Illinois 32.37 7 5 25
24 Southeast Missouri State 31.55 9 3 22
25 McNeese 31.45 7 5 28
26 Nicholls 30.96 8 4 32
27 North Dakota 30.70 7 4 30
28 Illinois State 30.52 8 4 19
29 Sam Houston State 30.45 7 5 35
30 Tennessee-Martin 30.40 7 5 17
31 Youngstown State 30.38 6 6 37
32 Princeton 30.29 8 2 34
33 San Diego 29.87 9 2 27
34 Central Connecticut State 29.83 11 1 39
35 The Citadel 29.67 6 6 31
36 Elon 29.03 5 6 38
37 Eastern Kentucky 28.76 7 5 42
38 Maine 28.68 6 6 29
39 Jacksonville State 28.11 6 6 33
40 William & Mary 27.77 5 7 43
41 North Carolina A&T 27.62 8 3 46
42 Holy Cross 27.59 7 5 49
43 Richmond 27.36 5 7 36
44 South Dakota 27.32 5 7 48
45 Eastern Washington 26.65 7 5 44
46 Delaware 26.29 5 7 40
47 Chattanooga 25.61 6 6 41
48 Harvard 25.60 4 6 52
49 Stony Brook 25.45 5 7 50
50 Campbell 24.75 6 5 45
51 Abilene Christian 24.38 5 7 47
52 Indiana State 24.34 5 7 53
53 Alcorn State 23.76 8 3 59
54 Samford 23.60 5 7 51
55 Dayton 23.45 8 3 57
56 Lafayette 23.35 4 8 68
57 Cal Poly 23.33 3 8 62
58 South Carolina State 23.30 8 3 58
59 Grambling State 23.16 6 4 60
60 Charleston Southern 23.10 6 6 74
61 Murray State 22.92 4 8 65
62 Georgetown 22.83 5 6 66
63 Lehigh 22.81 4 7 55
64 Florida A&M 22.79 9 2 56
65 North Alabama 22.63 4 7 63
66 Idaho 22.47 5 7 70
67 Southern 22.46 7 4 69
68 Colgate 22.16 4 8 72
69 Cornell 21.82 4 6 79
70 Davidson 21.60 8 4 67
71 Fordham 21.58 4 8 80
72 St. Francis 21.57 6 6 73
73 Sacred Heart 21.43 7 5 71
74 East Tennessee State 21.41 3 9 54
75 Tennessee Tech 21.09 6 6 61
76 Mercer 20.87 4 8 64
77 Virginia Military 20.79 5 7 83
78 Incarnate Word 20.73 5 7 81
79 Penn 20.65 5 5 76
80 Idaho State 20.21 3 9 82
81 Portland State 20.10 5 7 78
82 Rhode Island 20.06 2 10 88
83 Duquesne 19.89 6 5 89
84 Northern Arizona 19.86 4 8 77
85 Bucknell 19.80 3 8 75
86 Gardner-Webb 19.48 3 9 91
87 Columbia 19.35 3 7 84
88 Houston Baptist 19.09 5 7 85
89 Tennessee State 19.00 3 9 94
90 Eastern Illinois 18.82 1 11 86
91 Lamar 18.54 4 8 87
92 Southern Utah 18.50 3 9 92
93 Bethune-Cookman 18.36 7 4 97
94 Missouri State 17.35 1 10 90
95 Prairie View A&M 17.29 5 5 96
96 Western Illinois 16.88 1 11 95
97 Robert Morris 16.82 7 5 102
98 Alabama State 16.78 5 5 98
99 Northwestern State 16.49 3 9 93
100 Northern Colorado 16.46 2 10 99
101 Stephen F. Austin 16.16 3 9 101
102 Norfolk State 15.86 5 7 100
103 Drake 15.69 6 5 108
104 Presbyterian 15.03 2 10 106
105 Bryant 15.01 4 8 104
106 Alabama A&M 14.80 7 5 105
107 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 14.61 6 5 107
108 Brown 14.22 2 8 113
109 Stetson 14.05 7 4 112
110 Marist 14.02 4 7 111
111 Morehead State 13.42 5 7 110
112 Hampton 13.41 5 7 114
113 North Carolina Central 13.01 4 8 109
114 Western Carolina 12.63 3 9 103
115 Merrimack 12.55 6 5 116
116 Jacksonville 12.51 3 9 117
117 Morgan State 11.77 3 9 115
118 Long Island 11.30 0 10 118
119 Delaware State 10.62 2 10 119
120 Wagner 10.10 1 11 120
121 Mississippi Valley State 9.36 2 9 122
122 Jackson State 9.32 4 8 121
123 Butler 7.41 3 9 123
124 Howard 5.62 2 10 124
125 Valparaiso 4.50 1 11 125
126 Texas Southern 3.37 0 11 126