Week 5 FCS Football Power Rankings

October 3, 2022 · Jason Groomes
 
The Madness FCS Power Rankings
 
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 128 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’. These have been backed by historical data, but can and will be adjusted, if an obvious error has been identified. 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.
 
Teams will also gain bonuses for beating FCS 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 4, September 25. These will be available on the Madness no later than Monday every week. 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. There’s no bias involved in the ratings and no human factors whatsoever.
 
RANK TEAM RATING Won Lost Prev RANK CONFERENCE RATING
1 Delaware 39.47 5 0 1 1 MISSOURI VALLEY 19.47
2 Holy Cross 37.45 5 0 3 2 ATLANTIC SUN 18.82
3 Incarnate Word 36.72 4 1 2 3 COLONIAL 18.68
4 Samford 30.51 4 1 5 4 SOUTHERN 17.98
5 Southern Illinois 30.17 3 2 11 5 BIG SKY 17.53
6 Sacramento State 29.33 4 0 17 6 IVY LEAGUE 16.32
7 Montana 29.28 5 0 4 7 PATRIOT 14.19
8 North Dakota State 28.68 4 1 23 8 WESTERN 12.85
9 William & Mary 28.53 4 1 12 9-t OHIO VALLEY 12.43
10 Princeton 28.18 3 0 8 9-t SOUTHLAND 12.43
11 Elon 27.33 4 1 16 11 BIG SOUTH 11.57
12 Eastern Kentucky 27.17 3 2 29 12 SOUTHWESTERN 6.84
13 Monmouth 27.04 3 2 14 13 MID-EASTERN 6.63
14 Fordham 25.72 4 1 18 14 NORTHEAST 6.57
15 Southeast Missouri 25.45 4 1 22 15 PIONEER 6.32
16 Montana State 24.09 4 1 10      
17 Chattanooga 23.87 4 1 28      
18 Youngstown State 23.42 2 2 6      
19 Eastern Washington 23.20 3 2 30      
20 Idaho 23.20 3 2 31      
21 Western Carolina 23.18 3 2 42      
22 Mercer 23.08 4 1 9      
23 South Dakota State 23.08 4 1 7      
24 Richmond 22.82 3 2 19      
25 Jackson State 22.72 4 0 27      
26 Rhode Island 22.55 3 2 25  
27 Campbell 22.07 2 2 53      
28 Austin Peay 21.64 4 2 21      
29 Weber State 21.23 4 0 26  
30 Missouri State 20.71 2 3 24  
31 Harvard 20.53 2 1 20      
32 Furman 19.43 3 2 34      
33 New Hampshire 19.40 3 2 15      
34 Davidson 19.25 4 1 48  
35 Central Arkansas 18.82 2 3 57      
36 Southeastern Louisiana 18.81 3 2 33      
37 UC-Davis 18.69 1 4 32      
38 Tennessee-Martin 18.61 3 2 40  
39 Northern Iowa 18.52 2 3 46      
40 North Dakota 18.28 3 2 63  
41 Yale 17.88 2 1 35  
42 Columbia 17.58 2 1 13      
43 Penn 17.21 3 0 43  
44 Southern Utah 17.07 3 2 39      
45 South Dakota 16.33 1 3 41  
46 Illinois State 15.93 2 2 37  
47 Tennessee Tech 15.43 1 3 44  
48 Stephen F. Austin 15.39 2 3 38      
49 Abilene Christian 15.18 4 1 54  
50 Southern 14.96 2 2 98  
51 Portland State 14.87 1 3 59  
52 North Carolina Central 14.70 4 1 36  
53 Cal Poly 14.49 1 3 45  
54 Gardner-Webb 14.15 1 4 50      
55 Prairie View A&M 14.06 3 2 67  
56 North Carolina A&T 13.92 2 3 58  
57 Dartmouth 13.83 1 2 49  
58 Hampton 13.75 3 1 55      
59 Albany 13.62 1 3 47  
60 Villanova 13.49 3 2 60  
61 Stonehill 13.09 3 0 52  
62 Kennesaw State 12.91 1 3 69  
63 Lafayette 12.50 2 3 71  
64 East Tennessee State 11.92 2 3 61  
65 Virginia Military 11.45 1 3 64  
66 Merrimack 11.40 3 2 62  
67 Houston Christian 11.38 2 2 56      
68 Northern Colorado 11.00 2 3 68  
69 Towson 10.89 2 3 70  
70 Colgate 10.85 1 4 65  
71 Cornell 10.33 2 1 88      
72 Tarleton State 9.72 3 1 75  
73 Stetson 9.60 3 1 77  
74 Georgetown 9.52 1 4 82  
75 St. Francis 9.18 3 2 76  
76 North Alabama 9.03 1 3 79  
77 Charleston Southern 8.89 0 4 73      
78 Northern Arizona 8.82 1 4 83  
79 Alcorn State 8.80 2 2 74  
80 Eastern Illinois 8.70 1 3 78  
81 Indiana State 8.69 1 3 80  
82 Lehigh 8.48 1 4 72  
83 St. Thomas 8.47 3 1 87  
84 Bryant 8.44 1 4 86  
85 Lamar 8.37 0 5 89  
86 Dayton 8.25 3 1 84      
87 The Citadel 8.13 1 3 66  
88 Brown 8.05 1 2 51      
89 Nicholls 7.91 0 5 95  
90 McNeese 7.80 1 4 94      
91 Florida A&M 7.74 3 2 108  
92 Morgan State 7.57 2 2 100  
93 Lindenwood 7.12 2 2 90      
94 Delaware State 7.00 3 2 96  
95 Butler 6.89 2 2 81  
96 Northwestern State 6.83 2 3 105  
97 Texas A&M-Commerce 6.78 2 2 99  
98 Alabama State 6.77 3 2 104  
99 Sacred Heart 6.64 3 2 113  
100 Western Illinois 6.61 0 5 92  
101 Texas Southern 6.29 1 4 106  
102 Idaho State 6.02 0 5 115  
103 Wofford 5.72 0 5 97  
104 Robert Morris 5.37 0 4 102  
105 Morehead State 5.37 1 4 107  
106 Utah Tech 5.22 1 4 91  
107 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 5.16 2 3 85  
108 Valparaiso 4.86 2 2 103  
109 Stony Brook 4.59 0 4 114  
110 Howard 4.37 1 4 110      
111 Maine 4.22 0 4 117      
112 Murray State 4.21 0 5 112  
113 Duquesne 4.20 1 4 111      
114 South Carolina State 4.02 1 3 101  
115 San Diego 3.90 1 3 109  
116 Grambling State 3.02 1 4 116  
117 Tennessee State 2.75 0 4 93  
118 Bucknell 2.69 0 4 118  
119 Marist 2.63 1 3 120  
120 Alabama A&M 2.58 1 4 126  
121 Long Island 2.22 0 5 121  
122 Bethune-Cookman 2.13 1 3 119  
123 Presbyterian 1.97 2 3 123  
124 Central Connecticut State 0.43 0 5 124  
125 Drake 0.19 0 5 125  
126 Norfolk State -1.29 0 5 127      
127 Wagner -2.29 0 4 122  
128 Mississippi Valley State -3.00 0 5 128