ARGH 2017 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2017 season. Teams included are the 130 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams, plus Liberty.

The estimated home field advantage is .558, or about 2.99 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 9-12-17

This Week	Last Week	Team	2017 Record	Power Rating	SOS
1	1	Alabama	2 - 0	0.895	0
2	3	Clemson	2 - 0	0.848	0
3	6	Oklahoma	2 - 0	0.842	0
4	4	Wisconsin	2 - 0	0.815	0
5	5	Penn State	2 - 0	0.810	0
6	2	Ohio St.	1 - 1	0.804	0
7	10	Southern California	2 - 0	0.804	0
8	12	Georgia	2 - 0	0.789	0
9	7	Washington	2 - 0	0.770	0
10	14	Michigan	2 - 0	0.765	0
11	9	Stanford	1 - 1	0.762	0
12	11	Florida St.	0 - 1	0.755	0
13	8	Auburn	1 - 1	0.751	0
14	13	Louisiana St.	2 - 0	0.746	0
15	17	Oklahoma St.	2 - 0	0.732	0
16	20	Louisville	2 - 0	0.728	0
17	16	Washington St.	2 - 0	0.715	0
18	21	Colorado	2 - 0	0.711	0
19	29	Texas Christian	2 - 0	0.700	0
20	15	Tennessee	2 - 0	0.697	0
21	19	Miami, Florida	1 - 0	0.693	0
22	18	Florida	0 - 1	0.689	0
23	26	Vanderbilt	2 - 0	0.677	0
24	39	South Carolina	2 - 0	0.677	0
25	25	Iowa	2 - 0	0.672	0
26	24	Virginia Tech	2 - 0	0.667	0
27	30	Kansas St.	2 - 0	0.662	0
28	22	Kentucky	2 - 0	0.661	0
29	27	North Carolina St.	1 - 1	0.657	0
30	28	South Florida	2 - 0	0.655	0
31	41	Oregon	2 - 0	0.648	0
32	33	Notre Dame	1 - 1	0.646	0
33	45	Minnesota	2 - 0	0.632	0
34	40	UCLA	2 - 0	0.630	0
35	35	Memphis	1 - 0	0.627	0
36	44	Utah	2 - 0	0.623	0
37	47	Mississippi St.	2 - 0	0.623	0
38	38	Houston	1 - 0	0.619	0
39	42	Appalachian St.	1 - 1	0.617	0
40	58	Wake Forest	2 - 0	0.616	0
41	31	Nebraska	1 - 1	0.610	0
42	57	San Diego St.	2 - 0	0.610	0
43	54	Toledo	2 - 0	0.597	0
44	68	Duke	2 - 0	0.594	0
45	64	Navy	2 - 0	0.590	0
46	32	Texas A&M	1 - 1	0.589	0
47	34	Syracuse	1 - 1	0.589	0
48	46	Texas	1 - 1	0.588	0
49	23	Northwestern	1 - 1	0.587	0
50	49	Mississippi	2 - 0	0.585	0
51	36	Georgia Tech	1 - 1	0.583	0
52	55	Indiana	1 - 1	0.582	0
53	43	Boise State	1 - 1	0.581	0
54	37	Arkansas	1 - 1	0.580	0
55	60	Maryland	2 - 0	0.580	0
56	53	Colorado St.	2 - 1	0.579	0
57	56	California	2 - 0	0.577	0
58	59	West Virginia	1 - 1	0.553	0
59	50	Missouri	1 - 1	0.548	0
60	62	Troy	1 - 1	0.546	0
61	71	Army	2 - 0	0.544	0
62	84	Michigan St.	2 - 0	0.539	0
63	48	Western Michigan	0 - 2	0.531	0
64	78	Eastern Michigan	2 - 0	0.528	0
65	67	Arizona	1 - 1	0.528	0
66	69	Tulsa	1 - 1	0.524	0
67	51	North Carolina	0 - 2	0.522	0
68	61	Pittsburgh	1 - 1	0.521	0
69	74	Southern Methodist	2 - 0	0.510	0
70	52	Western Kentucky	1 - 1	0.507	0
71	70	Texas Tech	1 - 0	0.506	0
72	65	Arizona St.	1 - 1	0.506	0
73	76	Old Dominion	2 - 0	0.500	0
74	75	Wyoming	1 - 1	0.485	0
75	85	Middle Tennessee	1 - 1	0.475	0
76	94	Purdue	1 - 1	0.473	0
77	73	Central Florida	1 - 0	0.471	0
78	66	Boston College	1 - 1	0.470	0
79	99	Illinois	2 - 0	0.468	0
80	88	Texas-San Antonio	1 - 0	0.460	0
81	63	Brigham Young	1 - 2	0.454	0
82	82	Iowa St.	1 - 1	0.448	0
83	81	Air Force	1 - 0	0.446	0
84	87	Tulane	1 - 1	0.446	0
85	92	Central Michigan	2 - 0	0.442	0
86	98	Southern Mississippi	1 - 1	0.438	0
87	77	Temple	1 - 1	0.437	0
88	89	Ohio	1 - 1	0.436	0
89	113	Fresno St.	1 - 1	0.430	0
90	80	New Mexico	1 - 1	0.428	0
91	93	Akron	1 - 1	0.427	0
92	101	New Mexico St.	1 - 1	0.421	0
93	90	Arkansas St.	0 - 1	0.418	0
94	96	Miami, Ohio	1 - 1	0.416	0
95	72	Baylor	0 - 2	0.412	0
96	97	Utah St.	1 - 1	0.410	0
97	86	Hawaii	2 - 1	0.408	0
98	83	Louisiana Tech	1 - 1	0.405	0
99	100	Cincinnati	1 - 1	0.397	0
100	95	Virginia	1 - 1	0.395	0
101	104	Marshall	1 - 1	0.395	0
102	107	Northern Illinois	1 - 1	0.392	0
103	79	Oregon St.	1 - 2	0.383	0
104	103	LA-Monroe	0 - 1	0.370	0
105	106	LA-Lafayette	1 - 1	0.357	0
106	122	Rice	1 - 1	0.352	0
107	109	North Texas	1 - 1	0.350	0
108	91	Idaho	1 - 1	0.347	0
109	128	Liberty	2 - 0	0.344	0
110	115	Kent	1 - 1	0.338	0
111	112	Georgia St.	0 - 1	0.337	0
112	123	Ball St.	1 - 1	0.336	0
113	102	Rutgers	0 - 2	0.335	0
114	110	South Alabama	0 - 2	0.320	0
115	117	Florida Atlantic	0 - 2	0.318	0
116	127	Nevada-Las Vegas	1 - 1	0.315	0
117	114	Florida International	1 - 1	0.311	0
118	118	Connecticut	1 - 0	0.304	0
119	105	Georgia Southern	0 - 2	0.300	0
120	108	San Jose St.	1 - 2	0.296	0
121	116	Kansas	1 - 1	0.296	0
122	120	Nevada	0 - 2	0.280	0
123	111	Bowling Green	0 - 2	0.280	0
124	124	Texas-El Paso	0 - 2	0.271	0
125	126	Texas St.	1 - 1	0.265	0
126	129	Buffalo	0 - 2	0.261	0
127	130	Coastal Carolina	1 - 0	0.251	0
128	125	Charlotte	0 - 2	0.250	0
129	119	East Carolina	0 - 2	0.250	0
130	131	AL-Birmingham	1 - 1	0.244	0
131	121	Massachusetts	0 - 3	0.243	0
132	132	Wild Card U.	5 - 67	0.143	0

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