ARGH 2018 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2018 season as of 9-4-18. Teams included are the 130 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams.

The estimated home field advantage is .563, or about 3.27 points for an average game. The power ratings represent the chance that the team in question has of beating an average FBS team without regard to location.

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Revised 9-4-18

This Week	Last Week	Team	2018 Record	Power Rating	SOS
1	1	Clemson	1 - 0	0.859	0
2	2	Michigan St.	1 - 0	0.849	0
3	3	Wisconsin	1 - 0	0.842	0
4	4	Alabama	1 - 0	0.838	0
5	5	Notre Dame	1 - 0	0.832	0
6	6	Ohio St.	1 - 0	0.816	0
7	8	Georgia	1 - 0	0.787	0
8	11	Stanford	1 - 0	0.786	0
9	14	Auburn	1 - 0	0.780	0
10	13	Oklahoma	1 - 0	0.778	0
11	9	Penn State	1 - 0	0.778	0
12	7	Washington	0 - 1	0.777	0
13	16	Boise State	1 - 0	0.765	0
14	15	Southern California	1 - 0	0.758	0
15	17	Iowa	1 - 0	0.755	0
16	12	Michigan	0 - 1	0.743	0
17	19	Northwestern	1 - 0	0.742	0
18	10	Miami, Florida	0 - 1	0.733	0
19	22	Virginia Tech	1 - 0	0.723	0
20	18	Mississippi St.	1 - 0	0.716	0
21	20	Central Florida	1 - 0	0.711	0
22	27	Duke	1 - 0	0.690	0
23	21	Boston College	1 - 0	0.689	0
24	34	Louisiana St.	1 - 0	0.684	0
25	24	South Carolina	1 - 0	0.674	0
26	33	Wake Forest	1 - 0	0.667	0
27	23	Florida	1 - 0	0.664	0
28	25	Oklahoma St.	1 - 0	0.660	0
29	28	Missouri	1 - 0	0.653	0
30	29	Georgia Tech	1 - 0	0.648	0
31	40	West Virginia	1 - 0	0.645	0
32	30	Texas Christian	1 - 0	0.643	0
33	32	Texas A&M	1 - 0	0.642	0
34	26	Florida St.	0 - 1	0.638	0
35	35	Purdue	0 - 1	0.628	0
36	31	Texas	0 - 1	0.625	0
37	46	California	1 - 0	0.618	0
38	36	Utah	1 - 0	0.618	0
39	44	Oregon	1 - 0	0.615	0
40	49	Maryland	1 - 0	0.611	0
41	43	Iowa St.	0 - 0	0.611	0
42	37	Louisville	0 - 1	0.611	0
43	39	North Carolina St.	1 - 0	0.606	0
44	42	Memphis	1 - 0	0.605	0
45	41	San Diego St.	0 - 1	0.602	0
46	50	Kentucky	1 - 0	0.593	0
47	38	Texas Tech	0 - 1	0.592	0
48	52	Syracuse	1 - 0	0.590	0
49	48	Fresno St.	1 - 0	0.585	0
50	54	Minnesota	1 - 0	0.572	0
51	55	Arizona St.	1 - 0	0.572	0
52	45	Arizona	0 - 1	0.568	0
53	51	Arkansas	1 - 0	0.568	0
54	57	North Texas	1 - 0	0.565	0
55	53	Nebraska	0 - 0	0.561	0
56	60	Washington St.	1 - 0	0.559	0
57	62	Mississippi	1 - 0	0.558	0
58	56	Utah St.	0 - 1	0.556	0
59	63	Marshall	1 - 0	0.544	0
60	47	Wyoming	1 - 1	0.542	0
61	59	Toledo	1 - 0	0.528	0
62	66	Louisiana Tech	1 - 0	0.526	0
63	61	Pittsburgh	1 - 0	0.525	0
64	58	Florida Atlantic	0 - 1	0.523	0
65	74	Colorado	1 - 0	0.511	0
66	65	Troy	0 - 1	0.502	0
67	64	Kansas St.	1 - 0	0.502	0
68	67	Northern Illinois	0 - 1	0.498	0
69	69	Tulane	0 - 1	0.495	0
70	72	Army	0 - 1	0.492	0
71	73	North Carolina	0 - 1	0.492	0
72	86	Vanderbilt	1 - 0	0.489	0
73	78	Indiana	1 - 0	0.489	0
74	70	Western Michigan	0 - 1	0.488	0
75	77	South Florida	1 - 0	0.485	0
76	79	Rutgers	1 - 0	0.483	0
77	76	Ohio	1 - 0	0.477	0
78	68	Navy	0 - 1	0.469	0
79	71	UCLA	0 - 1	0.469	0
80	84	Virginia	1 - 0	0.469	0
81	75	Tennessee	0 - 1	0.466	0
82	85	Nevada	1 - 0	0.463	0
83	87	Houston	1 - 0	0.456	0
84	88	Baylor	1 - 0	0.453	0
85	97	Brigham Young	1 - 0	0.453	0
86	81	Southern Methodist	0 - 1	0.452	0
87	83	Miami, Ohio	0 - 1	0.447	0
88	90	Appalachian St.	0 - 1	0.446	0
89	80	Middle Tennessee	0 - 1	0.439	0
90	89	Illinois	1 - 0	0.436	0
91	95	Air Force	1 - 0	0.431	0
92	102	Cincinnati	1 - 0	0.429	0
93	96	Buffalo	1 - 0	0.428	0
94	94	Arkansas St.	1 - 0	0.428	0
95	92	Tulsa	1 - 0	0.426	0
96	100	Eastern Michigan	1 - 0	0.417	0
97	82	Temple	0 - 1	0.415	0
98	98	Nevada-Las Vegas	0 - 1	0.411	0
99	103	AL-Birmingham	1 - 0	0.407	0
100	99	LA-Monroe	1 - 0	0.405	0
101	101	Akron	0 - 0	0.394	0
102	104	Georgia Southern	1 - 0	0.392	0
103	105	Southern Mississippi	1 - 0	0.389	0
104	93	Old Dominion	0 - 1	0.380	0
105	91	Kansas	0 - 1	0.379	0
106	106	Massachusetts	1 - 1	0.370	0
107	120	Hawaii	2 - 0	0.344	0
108	115	Charlotte	1 - 0	0.327	0
109	111	Oregon St.	0 - 1	0.325	0
110	109	Central Michigan	0 - 1	0.323	0
111	110	South Alabama	0 - 1	0.322	0
112	112	Western Kentucky	0 - 1	0.322	0
113	117	Georgia St.	1 - 0	0.294	0
114	116	Bowling Green	0 - 1	0.293	0
115	107	New Mexico St.	0 - 2	0.291	0
116	118	New Mexico	1 - 0	0.290	0
117	114	Florida International	0 - 1	0.290	0
118	113	Texas-San Antonio	0 - 1	0.290	0
119	108	Colorado St.	0 - 2	0.288	0
120	124	Ball St.	1 - 0	0.270	0
121	128	Liberty	1 - 0	0.252	0
122	127	Louisiana	1 - 0	0.251	0
123	122	Connecticut	0 - 1	0.247	0
124	119	East Carolina	0 - 1	0.236	0
125	121	San Jose St.	0 - 1	0.232	0
126	125	Coastal Carolina	0 - 1	0.224	0
127	123	Rice	1 - 1	0.221	0
128	129	Kent St.	0 - 1	0.205	0
129	130	Texas St.	0 - 1	0.181	0
130	126	Wild Card U.	5 - 38	0.163	0
131	131	Texas-El Paso	0 - 1	0.104	0

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