Week 4 FCS Football Power Rankings
The College Sports Madness FCS Power Rankings are not like the typical ones you see. The ratings are exclusive for FCS Football, even though FBS opponents are tracked for strength of schedule purposes. Each team is awarded for wins and points scored and penalized for losses and points allowed. Teams are also given a weighted per game bonus, which are greatest for the FCS automatic bid leagues, lowest for no-bid leagues (Ivy/MEAC/SWAC) and in the middle for non-scholarship automatic bid leagues(NEC/Pioneer). Ratings are also dependent on a three-part "RPI-style" strength of schedule component, which consists of a team's winning percentage, their opponent's winning percentage and an adjusted opponent's winning percentage. The numbers may be a little skewed by early season blowouts or by a particularly tough or weak early schedule, but they'll settle in nicely as the season progresses.
| RANK | TEAM | RATING | Won | Lost | | 1 | James Madison | 42.99 | 4 | 0 | | 2 | Dartmouth | 37.72 | 2 | 0 | | 3 | Coastal Carolina | 37.46 | 4 | 0 | | 4 | Jacksonville State | 34.72 | 3 | 1 | | 5 | Princeton | 32.48 | 2 | 0 | | 6 | North Dakota State | 32.18 | 2 | 1 | | 7 | South Dakota State | 31.33 | 3 | 0 | | 8 | Illinois State | 31.18 | 2 | 1 | | 9 | McNeese State | 30.42 | 3 | 0 | | 10 | Dayton | 26.25 | 3 | 0 | | 11 | Sam Houston State | 26.11 | 1 | 2 | | 12 | Portland State | 24.98 | 3 | 0 | | 13 | Lamar | 24.66 | 2 | 1 | | 14 | Eastern Kentucky | 24.64 | 2 | 1 | | 15 | Youngstown State | 24.04 | 2 | 1 | | 16 | South Dakota | 22.90 | 2 | 1 | | 17 | Citadel | 22.44 | 2 | 2 | | 18 | Fordham | 21.45 | 3 | 1 | | 19 | Grambling State | 21.27 | 2 | 2 | | 20 | Indiana State | 21.13 | 2 | 1 | | 21 | Stony Brook | 21.08 | 2 | 1 | | 22 | William & Mary | 20.92 | 2 | 1 | | 23 | Richmond | 20.25 | 2 | 1 | | 24 | Chattanooga | 20.17 | 3 | 1 | | 25 | Eastern Washington | 20.10 | 2 | 2 | | 26 | Lehigh | 18.79 | 2 | 2 | | 27 | Mercer | 18.04 | 2 | 1 | | 28 | Tennessee Tech | 17.66 | 2 | 2 | | 29 | Southern Illinois | 17.52 | 1 | 2 | | 30 | Montana State | 17.46 | 2 | 1 | | 31 | Wofford | 17.40 | 2 | 2 | | 32 | Kennesaw State | 16.90 | 3 | 1 | | 33 | South Carolina State | 16.85 | 2 | 1 | | 34 | Western Illinois | 16.77 | 1 | 2 | | 35 | Northern Iowa | 16.67 | 2 | 1 | | 36 | North Carolina A&T | 16.53 | 2 | 1 | | 37 | Duquesne | 16.45 | 2 | 2 | | 38 | Montana | 16.30 | 2 | 2 | | 39 | Southern Utah | 16.22 | 2 | 2 | | 40 | Albany | 16.15 | 2 | 2 | | 41 | Weber State | 15.98 | 2 | 2 | | 42 | Villanova | 15.65 | 2 | 2 | | 43 | Towson | 15.64 | 2 | 2 | | 44 | Tennessee State | 15.26 | 3 | 1 | | 45 | Charleston Southern | 15.12 | 3 | 1 | | 46 | Liberty | 15.04 | 2 | 2 | | 47 | Tennessee-Martin | 15.02 | 1 | 2 | | 48 | New Hampshire | 14.91 | 2 | 2 | | 49 | Samford | 13.92 | 2 | 2 | | 50 | Colgate | 13.85 | 1 | 3 | | 51 | North Dakota | 13.67 | 3 | 1 | | 52 | Bryant | 13.36 | 2 | 1 | | 53 | Central Arkansas | 13.14 | 1 | 2 | | 54 | Furman | 13.08 | 2 | 2 | | 55 | Prairie View A&M | 13.03 | 2 | 2 | | 56 | Yale | 12.85 | 2 | 0 | | 57 | Butler | 12.69 | 3 | 1 | | 58 | Bethune-Cookman | 12.54 | 3 | 1 | | 59 | Delaware | 12.50 | 1 | 3 | | 60 | Virginia Military | 12.42 | 1 | 3 | | 61 | Cal Poly | 12.38 | 1 | 3 | | 62 | Penn | 12.38 | 1 | 1 | | 63 | Southeastern Louisiana | 12.26 | 2 | 1 | | 64 | Drake | 11.89 | 2 | 2 | | 65 | Jacksonville | 11.61 | 3 | 0 | | 66 | Elon | 11.45 | 2 | 2 | | 67 | Bucknell | 11.37 | 2 | 1 | | 68 | Abilene Christian | 11.15 | 2 | 1 | | 69 | Southern | 11.14 | 2 | 2 | | 70 | Presbyterian | 11.09 | 1 | 3 | | 71 | Robert Morris | 10.63 | 1 | 3 | | 72 | Alcorn State | 10.36 | 3 | 1 | | 73 | Stephen F. Austin | 10.17 | 0 | 4 | | 74 | Morehead State | 10.12 | 2 | 2 | | 75 | Northern Colorado | 10.06 | 2 | 2 | | 76 | Georgetown | 10.01 | 2 | 2 | | 77 | Northern Arizona | 9.98 | 2 | 2 | | 78 | North Carolina Central | 9.97 | 1 | 2 | | 79 | Holy Cross | 9.83 | 1 | 2 | | 80 | Cornell | 9.77 | 0 | 2 | | 81 | Sacred Heart | 9.65 | 2 | 2 | | 82 | Harvard | 9.63 | 2 | 0 | | 83 | UC Davis | 9.52 | 0 | 4 | | 84 | Marist | 9.39 | 1 | 3 | | 85 | Incarnate Word | 9.02 | 2 | 2 | | 86 | Columbia | 8.75 | 0 | 2 | | 87 | Alabama A&M | 8.56 | 1 | 2 | | 88 | Campbell | 8.55 | 2 | 2 | | 89 | San Diego | 8.52 | 2 | 1 | | 90 | Monmouth | 8.26 | 2 | 3 | | 91 | Alabama State | 8.09 | 1 | 3 | | 92 | St. Francis | 8.03 | 1 | 2 | | 93 | Southeast Missouri State | 8.01 | 1 | 3 | | 94 | Jackson State | 7.91 | 1 | 3 | | 95 | Texas Southern | 7.81 | 2 | 2 | | 96 | Brown | 7.46 | 0 | 2 | | 97 | Murray State | 7.45 | 1 | 3 | | 98 | Valparaiso | 6.86 | 1 | 3 | | 99 | Western Carolina | 6.84 | 1 | 2 | | 100 | Idaho State | 6.84 | 1 | 3 | | 101 | Maine | 6.76 | 1 | 2 | | 102 | Morgan State | 6.43 | 2 | 2 | | 103 | Sacramento State | 6.25 | 1 | 3 | | 104 | Gardner-Webb | 6.18 | 1 | 3 | | 105 | Eastern Illinois | 6.10 | 0 | 3 | | 106 | Houston Baptist | 5.94 | 1 | 3 | | 107 | Lafayette | 5.58 | 1 | 3 | | 108 | Hampton | 5.44 | 2 | 2 | | 109 | Norfolk State | 5.15 | 1 | 3 | | 110 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 4.84 | 1 | 3 | | 111 | Stetson | 4.68 | 1 | 2 | | 112 | Northwestern State | 4.23 | 0 | 4 | | 113 | Central Connecticut State | 4.20 | 1 | 3 | | 114 | Rhode Island | 3.02 | 0 | 4 | | 115 | Missouri State | 2.91 | 1 | 2 | | 116 | Wagner | 2.59 | 0 | 3 | | 117 | East Tennessee State(transitional) | 1.10 | 0 | 4 | | 118 | Nicholls State | 0.84 | 0 | 3 | | 119 | Austin Peay | 0.56 | 0 | 4 | | 120 | Delaware State | 0.53 | 0 | 3 | | 121 | Florida A&M | -0.14 | 0 | 4 | | 122 | Davidson | -0.24 | 0 | 3 | | 123 | Howard | -1.25 | 0 | 4 | | 124 | Mississippi Valley State | -1.34 | 0 | 4 | | 125 | Savannah State | -1.43 | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| RANK | CONFERENCE | RATING | | 1 | MISSOURI VALLEY | 21.10 | | 2 | IVY LEAGUE | 16.54 | | 3 | COLONIAL | 15.80 | | 4 | SOUTHERN | 15.49 | | 5 | BIG SOUTH | 15.42 | | 6 | BIG SKY | 13.28 | | 7 | OHIO VALLEY | 12.89 | | 8 | PATRIOT | 12.76 | | 9 | SOUTHLAND | 12.28 | | 10 | PIONEER | 9.45 | | 11 | SOUTHWESTERN | 9.08 | | 12 | NORTHEAST | 9.04 | | 13 | MID-EASTERN | 6.56 | |
