ARGH 2018 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2018 season as of 12-2-18. Teams included are the 130 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams.

The estimated home field advantage is .561, or about 3.15 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 12-2-18

This Week	Last Week	Team	2018 Record	Power Rating	SOS
1	1	Alabama	13 - 0	0.956	18
2	2	Clemson	13 - 0	0.953	35
3	4	Notre Dame	12 - 0	0.912	30
4	3	Georgia	11 - 2	0.895	2
5	6	Michigan	10 - 2	0.865	19
6	5	Central Florida	12 - 0	0.863	104
7	7	Ohio St.	12 - 1	0.856	38
8	8	Oklahoma	12 - 1	0.837	39
9	9	Mississippi St.	8 - 4	0.826	15
10	11	Fresno St.	11 - 2	0.820	88
11	15	Washington	10 - 3	0.808	31
12	10	Kentucky	9 - 3	0.801	20
13	12	Florida	9 - 3	0.800	28
14	13	Louisiana St.	9 - 3	0.799	12
15	14	Penn State	9 - 3	0.796	33
16	19	Appalachian St.	10 - 2	0.782	108
17	16	Cincinnati	10 - 2	0.779	101
18	17	Missouri	8 - 4	0.778	9
19	18	Washington St.	10 - 2	0.777	69
20	21	Texas A&M	8 - 4	0.769	3
21	20	Utah	9 - 4	0.761	29
22	22	Boise State	10 - 3	0.744	66
23	23	Iowa	8 - 4	0.742	49
24	25	Auburn	7 - 5	0.738	8
25	24	West Virginia	8 - 3	0.736	56
26	27	Syracuse	9 - 3	0.732	55
27	26	Utah St.	10 - 2	0.731	124
28	29	Army	9 - 2	0.713	102
29	32	Stanford	8 - 4	0.709	26
30	33	North Carolina St.	9 - 3	0.707	80
31	30	South Carolina	7 - 5	0.703	6
32	28	Texas	9 - 4	0.696	36
33	31	Miami, Florida	7 - 5	0.696	48
34	39	AL-Birmingham	10 - 3	0.663	122
35	37	Oregon	8 - 4	0.656	71
36	35	Northwestern	8 - 5	0.648	17
37	38	Vanderbilt	6 - 6	0.647	7
38	34	Iowa St.	8 - 4	0.647	53
39	40	Purdue	6 - 6	0.644	13
40	44	Boston College	7 - 5	0.642	42
41	41	Michigan St.	7 - 5	0.642	27
42	42	Temple	8 - 4	0.633	85
43	45	Georgia Southern	9 - 3	0.632	114
44	46	Troy	9 - 3	0.630	112
45	43	Pittsburgh	7 - 6	0.630	4
46	47	Arizona St.	7 - 5	0.629	45
47	36	Buffalo	10 - 3	0.627	117
48	48	Georgia Tech	7 - 5	0.623	51
49	49	Wisconsin	7 - 5	0.611	54
50	51	Virginia	7 - 5	0.608	70
51	50	Ohio	8 - 4	0.605	115
52	52	Duke	7 - 5	0.603	34
53	56	North Texas	9 - 3	0.582	130
54	57	Oklahoma St.	6 - 6	0.572	52
55	59	Minnesota	6 - 6	0.568	37
56	53	Middle Tennessee	8 - 5	0.568	77
57	55	California	7 - 5	0.567	61
58	61	Brigham Young	6 - 6	0.562	58
59	58	Memphis	8 - 5	0.560	111
60	60	Texas Christian	6 - 6	0.555	40
61	62	Texas Tech	5 - 7	0.551	44
62	63	Houston	8 - 4	0.550	121
63	74	Northern Illinois	8 - 5	0.547	63
64	64	Maryland	5 - 7	0.544	24
65	66	Wake Forest	6 - 6	0.543	41
66	67	Arkansas St.	8 - 4	0.543	113
67	54	Marshall	8 - 4	0.542	116
68	65	Toledo	7 - 5	0.541	110
69	68	Tennessee	5 - 7	0.539	5
70	70	Southern California	5 - 7	0.535	25
71	72	Mississippi	5 - 7	0.530	22
72	71	Indiana	5 - 7	0.529	16
73	69	Florida International	8 - 4	0.528	129
74	80	Virginia Tech	6 - 6	0.523	50
75	73	Eastern Michigan	7 - 5	0.520	109
76	75	Nevada	7 - 5	0.516	97
77	77	San Diego St.	7 - 5	0.510	84
78	76	Miami, Ohio	6 - 6	0.504	76
79	78	Nebraska	4 - 8	0.496	23
80	79	Baylor	6 - 6	0.487	59
81	81	Louisiana	7 - 6	0.486	75
82	86	Florida St.	5 - 7	0.480	10
83	82	Western Michigan	7 - 5	0.478	93
84	83	Arizona	5 - 7	0.473	57
85	85	Southern Mississippi	6 - 5	0.468	127
86	87	Colorado	5 - 7	0.466	62
87	84	Kansas St.	5 - 7	0.464	46
88	89	Tulane	6 - 6	0.456	74
89	88	South Florida	7 - 5	0.455	98
90	90	Wyoming	6 - 6	0.452	82
91	91	Hawaii	8 - 5	0.449	107
92	92	Air Force	5 - 7	0.444	95
93	93	UCLA	3 - 9	0.443	1
94	94	Louisiana Tech	7 - 5	0.438	119
95	95	Florida Atlantic	5 - 7	0.428	81
96	96	Southern Methodist	5 - 7	0.420	68
97	97	LA-Monroe	6 - 6	0.391	99
98	98	Coastal Carolina	5 - 7	0.378	79
99	100	Liberty	6 - 6	0.365	120
100	99	Charlotte	5 - 7	0.356	92
101	101	Navy	3 - 9	0.339	47
102	102	Massachusetts	4 - 8	0.333	73
103	103	North Carolina	2 - 9	0.332	43
104	104	Kansas	3 - 9	0.322	67
105	105	Illinois	4 - 8	0.319	65
106	107	Arkansas	2 - 10	0.310	14
107	108	Ball St.	4 - 8	0.293	94
108	106	Akron	4 - 8	0.291	87
109	109	Nevada-Las Vegas	4 - 8	0.288	106
110	110	Old Dominion	4 - 8	0.278	123
111	112	Oregon St.	2 - 10	0.276	21
112	111	Tulsa	3 - 9	0.276	100
113	114	New Mexico	3 - 9	0.263	89
114	115	Louisville	2 - 10	0.248	11
115	113	East Carolina	3 - 9	0.243	78
116	116	South Alabama	3 - 9	0.242	83
117	117	Colorado St.	3 - 9	0.234	86
118	120	Georgia St.	2 - 10	0.220	72
119	118	Western Kentucky	3 - 9	0.218	125
120	119	Bowling Green	3 - 9	0.217	96
121	122	Texas St.	3 - 9	0.206	126
122	121	Kent St.	2 - 10	0.203	90
123	123	New Mexico St.	3 - 9	0.192	118
124	124	San Jose St.	1 - 11	0.182	60
125	126	Texas-San Antonio	3 - 9	0.169	105
126	125	Rutgers	1 - 11	0.169	32
127	127	Rice	2 - 11	0.151	103
128	128	Central Michigan	1 - 11	0.139	91
129	129	Connecticut	1 - 11	0.135	64
130	130	Wild Card U.	7 - 105	0.100	0
131	131	Texas-El Paso	1 - 11	0.099	128

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