ARGH 2016 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2016 season as of September 6, 2016. Teams included are the 128 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams.

The estimated home field advantage is .549, or about 2.57 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 9-7-16

This Week	Last Week	Team	2016 Record	Power Rating	SOS
1	1	Alabama	1 - 0	0.870	0
2	3	Clemson	1 - 0	0.840	0
3	4	Tennessee	1 - 0	0.824	0
4	2	Louisiana St.	0 - 1	0.810	0
5	6	Ohio St.	1 - 0	0.798	0
6	5	Oklahoma	0 - 1	0.779	0
7	10	Stanford	1 - 0	0.766	0
8	12	Florida St.	1 - 0	0.762	0
9	11	Washington	1 - 0	0.761	0
10	8	Michigan	1 - 0	0.750	0
11	16	Georgia	1 - 0	0.748	0
12	9	Oklahoma St.	1 - 0	0.739	0
13	7	Mississippi	0 - 1	0.735	0
14	21	Houston	1 - 0	0.734	0
15	18	Louisville	1 - 0	0.725	0
16	17	Florida	1 - 0	0.723	0
17	14	Pittsburgh	1 - 0	0.710	0
18	15	Michigan St.	1 - 0	0.706	0
19	22	Iowa	1 - 0	0.706	0
20	30	Wisconsin	1 - 0	0.704	0
21	13	Notre Dame	0 - 1	0.702	0
22	24	Arkansas	1 - 0	0.698	0
23	19	Southern California	0 - 1	0.691	0
24	20	Auburn	0 - 1	0.688	0
25	25	Utah	1 - 0	0.684	0
26	33	Brigham Young	1 - 0	0.678	0
27	23	UCLA	0 - 1	0.676	0
28	31	Nebraska	1 - 0	0.673	0
29	36	Boise State	1 - 0	0.668	0
30	27	North Carolina	0 - 1	0.667	0
31	28	Miami, Florida	1 - 0	0.664	0
32	40	West Virginia	1 - 0	0.663	0
33	38	Penn State	1 - 0	0.656	0
34	32	Baylor	1 - 0	0.650	0
35	41	Texas	1 - 0	0.650	0
36	29	Northwestern	0 - 1	0.649	0
37	43	Texas A&M	1 - 0	0.648	0
38	26	Mississippi St.	0 - 1	0.639	0
39	35	Oregon	1 - 0	0.639	0
40	37	Texas Christian	1 - 0	0.627	0
41	44	Minnesota	1 - 0	0.624	0
42	42	Memphis	1 - 0	0.609	0
43	46	Appalachian St.	0 - 1	0.603	0
44	51	Western Michigan	1 - 0	0.600	0
45	45	Arizona	0 - 1	0.600	0
46	50	Georgia Tech	1 - 0	0.595	0
47	47	South Florida	1 - 0	0.591	0
48	48	North Carolina St.	1 - 0	0.588	0
49	34	Washington St.	0 - 1	0.587	0
50	55	Colorado	1 - 0	0.587	0
51	39	Temple	0 - 1	0.586	0
52	49	California	1 - 0	0.578	0
53	52	San Diego St.	1 - 0	0.565	0
54	65	Toledo	1 - 0	0.565	0
55	53	Virginia Tech	1 - 0	0.560	0
56	64	Western Kentucky	1 - 0	0.557	0
57	54	Arizona St.	1 - 0	0.555	0
58	57	Cincinnati	1 - 0	0.550	0
59	60	Texas Tech	1 - 0	0.548	0
60	61	Duke	1 - 0	0.546	0
61	56	Kansas St.	0 - 1	0.545	0
62	68	Indiana	1 - 0	0.542	0
63	62	Syracuse	1 - 0	0.542	0
64	63	Marshall	0 - 0	0.539	0
65	58	Missouri	0 - 1	0.530	0
66	59	Boston College	0 - 1	0.528	0
67	66	Georgia Southern	1 - 0	0.525	0
68	67	Central Michigan	1 - 0	0.525	0
69	69	Navy	1 - 0	0.515	0
70	70	Maryland	1 - 0	0.512	0
71	71	Wake Forest	1 - 0	0.512	0
72	76	Southern Mississippi	1 - 0	0.509	0
73	73	Utah St.	1 - 0	0.504	0
74	72	Purdue	1 - 0	0.498	0
75	75	Air Force	1 - 0	0.492	0
76	89	Tulsa	1 - 0	0.487	0
77	80	Illinois	1 - 0	0.477	0
78	88	South Carolina	1 - 0	0.476	0
79	79	Connecticut	1 - 0	0.466	0
80	85	New Mexico	1 - 0	0.465	0
81	74	Northern Illinois	0 - 1	0.464	0
82	81	Rutgers	0 - 1	0.458	0
83	77	Kentucky	0 - 1	0.457	0
84	83	Oregon St.	0 - 1	0.455	0
85	84	Nevada	1 - 0	0.455	0
86	92	Middle Tennessee	1 - 0	0.452	0
87	87	Bowling Green	0 - 1	0.451	0
88	82	Vanderbilt	0 - 1	0.438	0
89	86	San Jose St.	0 - 1	0.428	0
90	90	Colorado St.	0 - 1	0.424	0
91	93	Louisiana Tech	0 - 1	0.423	0
92	91	Arkansas St.	0 - 1	0.418	0
93	78	Virginia	0 - 1	0.415	0
94	95	East Carolina	1 - 0	0.414	0
95	96	Troy	1 - 0	0.405	0
96	97	Old Dominion	1 - 0	0.392	0
97	101	Ball St.	1 - 0	0.369	0
98	110	Army	1 - 0	0.364	0
99	94	Iowa St.	0 - 1	0.363	0
100	99	Kent	0 - 1	0.349	0
101	103	Southern Methodist	1 - 0	0.345	0
102	102	Idaho	1 - 0	0.343	0
103	98	Ohio	0 - 1	0.342	0
104	106	Nevada-Las Vegas	1 - 0	0.339	0
105	112	Wyoming	1 - 0	0.336	0
106	115	South Alabama	1 - 0	0.334	0
107	100	Florida International	0 - 1	0.333	0
108	108	Florida Atlantic	1 - 0	0.323	0
109	113	Akron	1 - 0	0.322	0
110	104	Fresno St.	0 - 1	0.318	0
111	105	LA-Lafayette	0 - 1	0.305	0
112	111	Miami, Ohio	0 - 1	0.304	0
113	117	Kansas	1 - 0	0.302	0
114	107	Rice	0 - 1	0.298	0
115	120	Central Florida	1 - 0	0.295	0
116	121	Eastern Michigan	1 - 0	0.292	0
117	116	Texas-El Paso	1 - 0	0.289	0
118	119	Texas-San Antonio	1 - 0	0.288	0
119	109	Georgia St.	0 - 1	0.285	0
120	122	Texas St.	1 - 0	0.275	0
121	118	Charlotte	0 - 1	0.263	0
122	114	Buffalo	0 - 1	0.262	0
123	127	LA-Monroe	1 - 0	0.237	0
124	123	Hawaii	0 - 2	0.232	0
125	125	Massachusetts	0 - 1	0.230	0
126	124	Tulane	0 - 1	0.221	0
127	126	New Mexico St.	0 - 1	0.196	0
128	129	North Texas	0 - 1	0.164	0
129	128	Wild Card U.	4 - 42	0.148	0

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