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Our FCS Football Rankings, 2026

These are our own rankings, computed from this season's results, not the AP or coaches' polls. Every game is a link from the loser to the winner, weighted by the margin (capped at 28 points). Teams are ranked by their centrality in that network (PageRank), so beating teams that beat good teams counts most. How it works

The win network Arrows point from the loser to the winner. Bigger circles score higher; the most central teams sit in the middle.
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Top 50 FCS Football teams

Through games of October 31, 2026 · Sort by centrality | efficiency

Rank±TeamW–L Score Eff. rank Adj O Adj D Tempo
1 – Alabama A&M 7–2 100.0 51 30.8 28.7 100.0
2 – Grambling 4–4 97.6 97 26.5 32.2 100.0
3 ▲3 Idaho 4–5 88.4 20 33.7 25.2 100.0
4 ▲92 Dartmouth 4–3 86.8 41 26.3 20.9 100.0
5 ▲5 Harvard 6–1 85.2 11 31.6 17.2 100.0
6 ▲2 Montana St 8–1 85.0 2 40.3 17.3 100.0
7 ▼3 Jackson St 6–2 83.4 62 27.2 26.7 100.0
8 ▼3 Charleston So 4–5 83.0 57 24.8 23.3 100.0
9 ▼6 Howard 4–5 81.8 92 20.0 25.3 100.0
10 ▼3 SC State 7–2 80.4 39 30.7 25.1 100.0
11 ▲1 S Dakota St 7–2 74.0 4 35.2 15.1 100.0
12 ▲3 W Carolina 4–5 72.9 24 35.8 28.0 100.0
13 ▲70 Yale 4–3 70.3 23 31.3 23.5 100.0
14 ▼3 Drake 3–6 66.6 118 22.0 32.7 100.0
15 ▲1 North Dakota 6–4 65.1 8 37.3 22.6 100.0
16 ▼2 ETSU 6–3 64.9 18 31.8 21.9 100.0
17 ▼4 Dayton 7–1 64.1 93 23.4 28.8 100.0
18 ▼9 Bethune 5–4 64.1 109 22.9 30.6 100.0
19 ▲1 SF Austin 9–0 63.8 1 39.6 15.7 100.0
20 ▲7 Tennessee Tech 8–1 61.5 12 35.0 20.9 100.0
21 ▼4 Youngstown St 7–2 60.5 3 42.9 20.9 100.0
22 ▼4 St Thomas 7–2 60.4 69 27.7 28.2 100.0
23 ▼1 Butler 7–2 60.2 70 25.9 26.4 100.0
24 ▲17 Cornell 3–4 60.1 38 32.9 27.1 100.0
25 ▲1 Princeton 5–2 59.4 46 22.3 18.5 100.0
26 ▼7 Norfolk St 4–5 57.4 108 24.7 32.4 100.0
27 ▼6 Illinois St 7–2 57.3 9 33.2 18.6 100.0
28 ▲27 Rhode Island 5–4 56.0 30 28.3 21.6 100.0
29 ▲11 AR-Pine Bluff 5–3 55.0 77 28.0 29.8 100.0
30 ▼6 Alcorn St 5–4 54.8 86 32.7 36.3 100.0
31 ▲20 NC Central 4–5 54.5 58 27.2 25.8 100.0
32 ▼7 Northern Iowa 4–4 54.1 25 28.5 20.9 100.0
33 ▲12 UAlbany 6–3 53.4 36 28.1 22.1 100.0
34 ▲31 Chicago St 2–7 48.9 124 17.8 37.0 100.0
35 ▼5 Tarleton St 9–0 48.3 7 41.3 24.9 100.0
36 ▼13 Incarnate Word 5–4 48.0 10 36.2 21.6 100.0
37 ▼8 Austin Peay 7–2 47.8 14 34.5 20.7 100.0
38 ▼6 Delaware St 5–4 45.9 95 23.0 28.5 100.0
39 – W Illinois 5–4 45.4 54 31.4 29.6 100.0
40 ▼12 Valparaiso 4–4 44.6 117 18.3 28.7 100.0
41 ▲6 C Connecticut 5–3 44.1 27 34.4 27.0 100.0
42 ▼9 Alabama St 4–4 44.0 56 24.6 22.9 100.0
43 ▼9 South Dakota 7–3 43.8 5 37.3 20.3 100.0
44 ▼13 Presbyterian 4–5 43.6 122 19.9 34.9 100.0
45 ▼8 Southern 4–5 43.4 111 21.1 29.2 100.0
46 ▼10 Campbell 7–2 42.7 21 34.1 25.7 100.0
47 ▼3 Weber St 6–4 42.5 31 35.0 28.6 100.0
48 ▼10 Chattanooga 6–3 42.2 26 25.0 17.6 100.0
49 – Lehigh 7–2 41.7 16 31.9 19.5 100.0
50 ▲4 Lamar 7–2 41.6 13 34.5 20.6 100.0

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