ARGH 2016 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2016 season as of September 25, 2016. Teams included are the 128 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams.

The estimated home field advantage is .550, or about 2.73 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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Revised 9-25-16

This Week	Last Week	Team	2016 Record	Power Rating	SOS
1	1	Alabama	4 - 0	0.892	15
2	3	Clemson	4 - 0	0.881	18
3	4	Tennessee	4 - 0	0.852	6
4	2	Ohio St.	3 - 0	0.847	24
5	7	Michigan	4 - 0	0.844	44
6	5	Stanford	3 - 0	0.838	5
7	6	Louisville	4 - 0	0.837	30
8	8	Houston	4 - 0	0.834	56
9	9	Texas A&M	4 - 0	0.831	11
10	10	Wisconsin	4 - 0	0.830	21
11	11	Washington	4 - 0	0.795	110
12	17	Nebraska	4 - 0	0.771	66
13	22	Baylor	4 - 0	0.757	119
14	14	Utah	4 - 0	0.754	75
15	13	Florida	3 - 1	0.751	37
16	12	Miami, Florida	3 - 0	0.746	97
17	27	Western Michigan	4 - 0	0.738	80
18	25	Florida St.	3 - 1	0.732	12
19	23	Boise State	3 - 0	0.730	67
20	16	Arkansas	3 - 1	0.709	14
21	33	West Virginia	3 - 0	0.708	52
22	41	Virginia Tech	3 - 1	0.698	39
23	34	Auburn	2 - 2	0.697	4
24	15	Louisiana St.	2 - 2	0.694	13
25	37	Mississippi	2 - 2	0.691	8
26	24	Oklahoma	1 - 2	0.691	7
27	20	UCLA	2 - 2	0.685	2
28	44	Colorado	3 - 1	0.679	33
29	50	Wake Forest	4 - 0	0.676	84
30	42	Memphis	3 - 0	0.675	126
31	29	Georgia Tech	3 - 1	0.673	36
32	35	North Carolina	3 - 1	0.670	53
33	48	Arizona St.	4 - 0	0.655	104
34	19	Georgia	3 - 1	0.649	20
35	18	Michigan St.	2 - 1	0.648	25
36	46	Minnesota	3 - 0	0.647	101
37	47	Kansas St.	2 - 1	0.639	60
38	21	Oklahoma St.	2 - 2	0.638	42
39	26	South Florida	3 - 1	0.632	95
40	32	San Diego St.	3 - 0	0.631	121
41	57	Iowa	3 - 1	0.631	128
42	58	Texas Christian	3 - 1	0.630	105
43	66	Troy	3 - 1	0.625	63
44	36	Toledo	3 - 0	0.624	127
45	64	Missouri	2 - 2	0.618	46
46	31	Southern California	1 - 3	0.616	1
47	51	Navy	3 - 0	0.616	114
48	68	Southern Mississippi	3 - 1	0.608	113
49	72	Air Force	3 - 0	0.606	118
50	30	Pittsburgh	2 - 2	0.604	31
51	39	Texas	2 - 1	0.604	50
52	53	Maryland	3 - 0	0.601	116
53	40	Georgia Southern	3 - 1	0.600	109
54	67	Appalachian St.	2 - 2	0.596	10
55	55	Western Kentucky	3 - 1	0.590	64
56	28	Central Michigan	3 - 1	0.585	111
57	45	Brigham Young	1 - 3	0.583	3
58	56	North Carolina St.	2 - 1	0.579	106
59	61	Cincinnati	3 - 1	0.579	93
60	52	Oregon	2 - 2	0.579	47
61	38	Penn State	2 - 2	0.573	16
62	54	Mississippi St.	2 - 2	0.573	55
63	49	California	2 - 2	0.562	22
64	65	Tulsa	3 - 1	0.559	90
65	63	Texas Tech	2 - 1	0.558	81
66	62	Indiana	2 - 1	0.553	69
67	70	Washington St.	1 - 2	0.543	87
68	79	Duke	2 - 2	0.543	58
69	69	Temple	2 - 2	0.542	112
70	43	Notre Dame	1 - 3	0.538	23
71	59	Arizona	2 - 2	0.538	68
72	76	Middle Tennessee	3 - 1	0.536	123
73	60	Army	3 - 1	0.525	125
74	89	Boston College	2 - 2	0.498	59
75	73	Northwestern	1 - 3	0.493	28
76	81	Purdue	2 - 1	0.492	96
77	91	Ball St.	3 - 1	0.487	120
78	82	Syracuse	2 - 2	0.486	35
79	77	Marshall	1 - 2	0.482	72
80	93	Kentucky	2 - 2	0.472	43
81	86	Akron	2 - 2	0.471	29
82	78	Rutgers	2 - 2	0.471	70
83	75	East Carolina	2 - 2	0.465	62
84	74	South Carolina	2 - 2	0.464	32
85	92	Ohio	2 - 2	0.464	76
86	80	Oregon St.	1 - 2	0.461	34
87	98	Eastern Michigan	3 - 1	0.459	115
88	71	Utah St.	2 - 2	0.458	99
89	90	Illinois	1 - 2	0.451	38
90	106	Central Florida	2 - 2	0.439	88
91	83	Vanderbilt	1 - 3	0.438	17
92	85	Colorado St.	2 - 2	0.437	91
93	104	Tulane	2 - 2	0.436	89
94	84	Connecticut	2 - 2	0.421	107
95	88	Louisiana Tech	1 - 3	0.420	48
96	102	Old Dominion	2 - 2	0.410	103
97	87	Nevada	2 - 2	0.390	122
98	99	New Mexico	1 - 2	0.382	124
99	95	Wyoming	2 - 2	0.382	98
100	97	Southern Methodist	2 - 2	0.376	71
101	105	South Alabama	2 - 2	0.368	92
102	100	LA-Lafayette	2 - 2	0.366	102
103	116	Virginia	1 - 3	0.356	74
104	96	Nevada-Las Vegas	1 - 3	0.353	77
105	109	Texas St.	1 - 2	0.333	9
106	117	Idaho	2 - 2	0.330	73
107	94	San Jose St.	1 - 3	0.325	85
108	108	Fresno St.	1 - 3	0.325	41
109	124	North Texas	2 - 2	0.321	108
110	113	Kansas	1 - 2	0.321	79
111	125	Iowa St.	1 - 3	0.316	82
112	103	Bowling Green	1 - 3	0.310	27
113	114	LA-Monroe	1 - 2	0.299	45
114	110	Kent	1 - 3	0.297	65
115	112	Texas-San Antonio	1 - 3	0.291	100
116	121	Georgia St.	0 - 3	0.288	19
117	118	Hawaii	1 - 3	0.285	26
118	115	Charlotte	1 - 3	0.284	49
119	120	Massachusetts	1 - 3	0.277	51
120	111	Florida Atlantic	1 - 3	0.276	54
121	128	Buffalo	1 - 2	0.266	117
122	101	Northern Illinois	0 - 4	0.266	83
123	107	Arkansas St.	0 - 4	0.238	61
124	119	Texas-El Paso	1 - 3	0.236	78
125	123	New Mexico St.	1 - 3	0.235	86
126	126	Miami, Ohio	0 - 4	0.230	57
127	122	Rice	0 - 4	0.215	40
128	127	Florida International	0 - 4	0.178	94
129	129	Wild Card U.	10 - 84	0.156	0

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