ARGH 2012 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2012 season after games of September 22. Teams included are the 124 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams, plus one team that will be starting FBS play in 2013.

The estimated home field advantage is .567, or about 3.73 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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This Week	Last Week	Team	2012 Record	Power Rating
1	1	Alabama	4 - 0	0.907
2	2	Notre Dame	4 - 0	0.883
3	3	Louisiana St.	4 - 0	0.869
4	7	South Carolina	4 - 0	0.857
5	6	Florida	4 - 0	0.852
6	5	Stanford	3 - 0	0.841
7	10	Georgia	4 - 0	0.834
8	11	Florida St.	4 - 0	0.825
9	16	Oregon	4 - 0	0.820
10	14	Kansas St.	4 - 0	0.818
11	8	Ohio St.	4 - 0	0.797
12	9	Southern California	3 - 1	0.793
13	12	Texas	3 - 0	0.780
14	4	Oklahoma	2 - 1	0.776
15	13	Michigan St.	3 - 1	0.775
16	22	Texas Christian	3 - 0	0.758
17	19	West Virginia	3 - 0	0.748
18	23	Mississippi St.	4 - 0	0.747
19	18	Oklahoma St.	2 - 1	0.740
20	17	Nebraska	3 - 1	0.738
21	28	Rutgers	4 - 0	0.733
22	26	Boise State	2 - 1	0.728
23	15	Clemson	3 - 1	0.719
24	32	Louisville	4 - 0	0.717
25	25	Baylor	3 - 0	0.716
26	24	Texas A&M	2 - 1	0.711
27	21	UCLA	3 - 1	0.703
28	29	Iowa St.	3 - 0	0.700
29	30	Texas Tech	3 - 0	0.696
30	27	Tennessee	3 - 1	0.692
31	37	Virginia Tech	3 - 1	0.690
32	20	Michigan	2 - 2	0.687
33	48	Arizona St.	3 - 1	0.681
34	39	Ohio	4 - 0	0.677
35	40	Northwestern	4 - 0	0.666
36	31	Missouri	2 - 2	0.664
37	34	North Carolina St.	3 - 1	0.664
38	55	Oregon St.	2 - 0	0.658
39	53	Louisiana Tech	3 - 0	0.655
40	45	Wisconsin	3 - 1	0.636
41	41	Cincinnati	2 - 0	0.632
42	43	Purdue	2 - 1	0.628
43	38	Arizona	3 - 1	0.621
44	58	Miami, Florida	3 - 1	0.621
45	50	Tulsa	3 - 1	0.618
46	42	Brigham Young	2 - 2	0.617
47	66	Minnesota	4 - 0	0.612
48	36	Georgia Tech	2 - 2	0.611
49	60	Nevada	3 - 1	0.603
50	62	Western Kentucky	3 - 1	0.601
51	35	Auburn	1 - 3	0.600
52	63	North Carolina	2 - 2	0.599
53	47	Washington	2 - 1	0.594
54	51	Central Florida	2 - 1	0.593
55	33	Utah	2 - 2	0.582
56	56	Penn State	2 - 2	0.577
57	61	Utah St.	3 - 1	0.570
58	49	South Florida	2 - 2	0.551
59	44	Vanderbilt	1 - 3	0.549
60	59	Northern Illinois	3 - 1	0.546
61	75	Mississippi	3 - 1	0.545
62	46	Connecticut	2 - 2	0.544
63	64	Duke	3 - 1	0.542
64	82	San Jose St.	3 - 1	0.534
65	77	Ball St.	3 - 1	0.525
66	52	Iowa	2 - 2	0.519
67	57	Illinois	2 - 2	0.512
68	65	Toledo	3 - 1	0.508
69	71	LA-Lafayette	2 - 1	0.504
70	67	California	1 - 3	0.497
71	78	Pittsburgh	2 - 2	0.494
72	79	Fresno St.	2 - 2	0.494
73	54	Arkansas	1 - 3	0.489
74	95	Western Michigan	2 - 2	0.486
75	88	Wake Forest	3 - 1	0.483
76	74	Kentucky	1 - 3	0.480
77	76	Boston College	1 - 2	0.478
78	83	Marshall	2 - 2	0.477
79	68	Virginia	2 - 2	0.470
80	94	Central Michigan	2 - 1	0.466
81	69	San Diego St.	2 - 2	0.465
82	97	Arkansas St.	2 - 2	0.465
83	72	Maryland	2 - 2	0.460
84	90	Kent	2 - 1	0.456
85	101	Texas-San Antonio	4 - 0	0.452
86	73	Syracuse	1 - 3	0.451
87	70	East Carolina	2 - 2	0.450
88	103	Troy St.	2 - 2	0.444
89	86	Indiana	2 - 1	0.438
90	84	LA-Monroe	1 - 2	0.437
91	80	Miami, Ohio	2 - 2	0.428
92	98	Navy	1 - 2	0.419
93	91	Houston	0 - 3	0.417
94	87	Florida International	1 - 3	0.412
95	92	Southern Methodist	1 - 2	0.404
96	93	Temple	1 - 2	0.399
97	89	North Texas	1 - 3	0.392
98	81	Southern Mississippi	0 - 3	0.370
99	99	Rice	1 - 3	0.369
100	96	Air Force	1 - 2	0.367
101	104	Texas-El Paso	1 - 3	0.357
102	85	Bowling Green	1 - 3	0.355
103	112	New Mexico	2 - 2	0.347
104	102	Hawaii	1 - 2	0.334
105	106	Kansas	1 - 3	0.332
106	109	Texas St.	2 - 1	0.332
107	100	Washington St.	2 - 2	0.325
108	108	Wyoming	1 - 3	0.318
109	107	Buffalo	1 - 2	0.315
110	113	Akron	1 - 3	0.302
111	105	Army	0 - 3	0.302
112	110	Middle Tennessee St.	2 - 1	0.297
113	114	South Alabama	1 - 3	0.271
114	116	AL-Birmingham	0 - 3	0.257
115	111	New Mexico St.	1 - 3	0.256
116	117	Florida Atlantic	1 - 3	0.248
117	121	Nevada-Las Vegas	1 - 3	0.247
118	115	Eastern Michigan	0 - 4	0.235
119	120	Colorado	1 - 3	0.227
120	119	Colorado St.	1 - 3	0.208
121	118	Tulane	0 - 3	0.191
122	124	Wild Card U.	11 - 83	0.154
123	123	Idaho	0 - 4	0.149
124	125	Memphis	0 - 4	0.148
125	122	Massachusetts	0 - 4	0.143
126	126	Georgia St.	0 - 4	0.073

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