College Football Power Index 2026


Team	CONF
UL Monroe Warhawks	Sun Belt
Charlotte 49ers	American
Rutgers Scarlet Knights	Big Ten
Sacramento State Hornets	MAC
Northern Illinois Huskies	Mountain West
Bowling Green Falcons	MAC
Rice Owls	American
UTEP Miners	Mountain West
Purdue Boilermakers	Big Ten
Ball State Cardinals	MAC
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	ACC
Boston College Eagles	ACC
Washington State Cougars	Pac-12
Utah State Aggies	Pac-12
Akron Zips	MAC
Arkansas Razorbacks	SEC
Kansas Jayhawks	Big 12
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers	Sun Belt
San Diego State Aztecs	Pac-12
New Mexico State Aggies	CUSA
Colorado Buffaloes	Big 12
Maryland Terrapins	Big Ten
Stanford Cardinal	ACC
Syracuse Orange	ACC
Eastern Michigan Eagles	MAC
Southern Miss Golden Eagles	Sun Belt
Navy Midshipmen	American
Kent State Golden Flashes	MAC
Wyoming Cowboys	Mountain West
California Golden Bears	ACC
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers	CUSA
Colorado State Rams	Pac-12
Old Dominion Monarchs	Sun Belt
Nevada Wolf Pack	Mountain West
Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors	Mountain West
Missouri State Bears	CUSA
UAB Blazers	American
Kennesaw State Owls	CUSA
Sam Houston Bearkats	CUSA
Buffalo Bulls	MAC
Georgia Southern Eagles	Sun Belt
Michigan State Spartans	Big Ten
Vanderbilt Commodores	SEC
South Carolina Gamecocks	SEC
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders	CUSA
Iowa State Cyclones	Big 12
Florida State Seminoles	ACC
Minnesota Golden Gophers	Big Ten
Washington Huskies	Big Ten
UConn Huskies	FBS Indep.
TCU Horned Frogs	Big 12
North Carolina Tar Heels	ACC
Illinois Fighting Illini	Big Ten
Florida International Panthers	CUSA
San José State Spartans	Mountain West
Temple Owls	American
Texas State Bobcats	Pac-12
NC State Wolfpack	ACC
West Virginia Mountaineers	Big 12
Arizona State Sun Devils	Big 12
Oklahoma Sooners	SEC
Troy Trojans	Sun Belt
Missouri Tigers	SEC
Central Michigan Chippewas	MAC
Arkansas State Red Wolves	Sun Belt
Kentucky Wildcats	SEC
Oregon State Beavers	Pac-12
Marshall Thundering Herd	Sun Belt
South Alabama Jaguars	Sun Belt
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs	Sun Belt
Texas A&M Aggies	SEC
Delaware Blue Hens	CUSA
Arizona Wildcats	Big 12
Auburn Tigers	SEC
Florida Atlantic Owls	American
Tulane Green Wave	American
East Carolina Pirates	American
Fresno State Bulldogs	Pac-12
Baylor Bears	Big 12
Georgia State Panthers	Sun Belt
UNLV Rebels	Mountain West
Northwestern Wildcats	Big Ten
Oklahoma State Cowboys	Big 12
Michigan Wolverines	Big Ten
UCF Knights	Big 12
Louisville Cardinals	ACC
Clemson Tigers	ACC
Jacksonville State Gamecocks	CUSA
Ole Miss Rebels	SEC
Ohio Bobcats	MAC
Tulsa Golden Hurricane	American
Army Black Knights	American
Air Force Falcons	Mountain West
Cincinnati Bearcats	Big 12
Miami (OH) RedHawks	MAC
Wisconsin Badgers	Big Ten
USC Trojans	Big Ten
North Texas Mean Green	American
Wake Forest Demon Deacons	ACC
App State Mountaineers	Sun Belt
Houston Cougars	Big 12
SMU Mustangs	ACC
Mississippi State Bulldogs	SEC
Tennessee Volunteers	SEC
Kansas State Wildcats	Big 12
Virginia Cavaliers	ACC
Virginia Tech Hokies	ACC
Western Michigan Broncos	MAC
UTSA Roadrunners	American
Memphis Tigers	American
LSU Tigers	SEC
UCLA Bruins	Big Ten
Iowa Hawkeyes	Big Ten
Nebraska Cornhuskers	Big Ten
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns	Sun Belt
Duke Blue Devils	ACC
Penn State Nittany Lions	Big Ten
Florida Gators	SEC
BYU Cougars	Big 12
Oregon Ducks	Big Ten
South Florida Bulls	American
Massachusetts Minutemen	MAC
Pittsburgh Panthers	ACC
Liberty Flames	CUSA
Boise State Broncos	Pac-12
Ohio State Buckeyes	Big Ten
North Dakota State Bison	Mountain West
New Mexico Lobos	Mountain West
Alabama Crimson Tide	SEC
Toledo Rockets	MAC
Utah Utes	Big 12
Texas Tech Red Raiders	Big 12
Texas Longhorns	SEC
Indiana Hoosiers	Big Ten
Georgia Bulldogs	SEC
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	FBS Indep.
James Madison Dukes	Sun Belt
Miami Hurricanes	ACC

	POWER INDEX			PROJECTIONS
W-L	FPI	RK	TREND	PROJ W-L	WIN OUT%	6WINS%	WIN DIV%	WIN CONF%	PLAYOFF%	MAKE NC%	WIN NC%
0-4	-24.6	137	--	1.2-10.8	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-4	-18.6	129	--	1.4-10.6	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-3.7	84	--	2.4-9.6	0.0	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-27.7	138	--	2.5-9.5	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-4	-18.1	128	--	2.6-9.4	0.0	2.1	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-4	-21.4	134	--	2.8-9.2	0.0	1.8	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-14.0	123	--	2.9-9.1	0.0	4.4	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-20.4	133	--	3.0-9.0	0.0	3.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-3.1	83	--	3.1-8.9	0.0	3.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-23.3	136	--	3.3-8.7	0.0	4.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	0.0	66	--	3.3-8.7	0.0	5.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-4.8	86	--	3.4-8.6	0.0	4.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-7.3	98	--	3.5-7.6	0.0	7.6	0.0	1.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-7.0	95	--	3.6-7.5	0.0	8.5	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-20.1	132	--	3.6-8.4	0.0	9.8	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	2.2	60	--	3.7-8.3	0.0	8.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-2	-0.4	70	--	4.0-8.0	0.0	15.2	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-3	-11.8	114	--	4.0-8.0	0.0	16.5	1.5	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-5.6	91	--	4.0-7.1	0.1	14.4	0.0	2.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-15.5	125	--	4.0-8.0	0.0	17.6	0.0	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-0.6	71	--	4.1-7.9	0.0	15.3	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
2-2	-1.7	74	--	4.1-7.9	0.0	12.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-5.7	92	--	4.2-7.8	0.0	12.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-2	0.6	63	--	4.3-7.7	0.0	21.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-18.7	131	--	4.3-7.8	0.0	15.4	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-11.8	115	--	4.3-7.8	0.0	20.8	4.8	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-2	-7.1	96	--	4.5-7.5	0.0	25.3	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-21.6	135	--	4.5-7.5	0.0	22.1	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-16.1	126	--	4.6-7.5	0.0	23.9	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-2.1	76	--	4.6-7.4	0.0	25.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-12.8	119	--	4.6-7.5	0.1	27.7	0.0	4.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-6.6	93	--	4.6-6.5	0.0	24.5	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-10.0	110	--	4.6-7.4	0.1	29.6	0.7	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-8.5	104	--	4.7-7.4	0.0	26.9	0.0	1.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-11.1	112	--	4.7-7.3	0.0	27.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-12.2	118	--	4.7-7.4	0.1	30.5	0.0	4.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-13.3	122	--	4.8-7.2	0.0	27.9	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-11.2	113	--	4.9-7.3	0.2	33.8	0.0	5.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-11.9	117	--	4.9-7.2	0.2	34.6	0.0	4.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-18.6	130	--	4.9-7.1	0.0	33.4	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-7.4	100	--	5.0-7.0	0.3	38.4	6.4	3.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	3.6	56	--	5.0-7.0	0.0	36.8	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
3-1	5.5	51	--	5.1-6.9	0.0	35.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
2-2	9.9	33	--	5.1-6.9	0.0	39.6	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0
2-2	-14.0	124	--	5.2-6.9	0.0	39.7	0.0	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	4.0	55	--	5.2-6.8	0.0	41.4	0.0	0.2	0.3	0.0	0.0
2-2	6.6	45	--	5.2-6.8	0.0	41.9	0.0	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.0
3-1	1.8	61	--	5.3-6.7	0.0	40.3	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0
3-1	4.4	54	--	5.3-6.7	0.0	41.4	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
2-2	-7.2	97	--	5.4-6.6	0.0	45.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	6.3	47	--	5.5-6.5	0.1	48.9	0.0	0.7	0.7	0.0	0.0
2-1	5.3	52	--	5.5-6.5	0.0	49.5	0.0	0.2	0.7	0.0	0.0
2-2	6.8	44	--	5.5-6.5	0.1	50.4	0.0	0.1	0.4	0.0	0.0
2-2	-11.8	116	--	5.6-6.5	0.1	50.7	0.0	4.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-13.2	121	--	5.6-7.4	0.0	51.1	0.0	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-3	-5.2	88	--	5.6-6.4	0.7	53.7	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-2.0	75	--	5.7-5.5	0.4	55.2	0.0	6.2	0.3	0.0	0.0
2-2	2.7	58	--	5.8-6.2	0.2	58.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-1	2.5	59	--	5.9-6.1	0.0	58.0	0.0	0.1	0.4	0.0	0.0
2-1	3.0	57	--	5.9-6.1	0.0	57.9	0.0	0.8	1.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	13.9	21	--	5.9-6.1	0.2	60.6	0.0	0.5	3.9	0.2	0.1
2-2	-8.6	106	--	6.0-6.1	0.1	61.0	9.3	2.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-1	9.6	35	--	6.0-6.0	0.0	60.6	0.0	0.1	2.4	0.1	0.0
2-2	-16.4	127	--	6.0-6.1	0.1	61.7	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-2	-9.9	109	--	6.0-6.1	0.2	62.2	10.0	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-1	9.4	36	--	6.1-5.9	0.0	64.9	0.0	0.1	4.2	0.2	0.1
2-2	-0.1	67	--	6.2-5.2	1.2	66.6	0.0	9.8	0.5	0.0	0.0
3-1	-13.1	120	--	6.2-5.8	0.0	66.3	1.6	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.0
2-2	-8.8	107	--	6.3-5.9	0.4	67.9	12.2	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-2	-6.7	94	--	6.3-6.0	0.6	66.0	21.2	6.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
2-2	15.1	16	--	6.4-5.6	0.3	74.9	0.0	0.1	3.1	0.3	0.1
2-2	-8.9	108	--	6.5-5.8	0.8	70.7	0.0	11.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-1	5.6	50	--	6.6-5.4	0.1	74.9	0.0	0.5	1.3	0.1	0.0
3-1	13.0	24	--	6.6-5.4	0.0	79.4	0.0	0.2	6.1	0.4	0.1
3-1	-8.2	102	--	6.6-5.5	0.0	76.9	0.0	2.1	0.2	0.0	0.0
2-2	-2.2	78	--	6.6-5.6	0.9	74.4	0.0	8.2	0.3	0.0	0.0
2-2	-4.1	85	--	6.8-5.4	1.0	78.9	0.0	5.6	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-1	-0.9	72	--	6.8-4.5	0.9	80.1	0.0	8.3	1.5	0.0	0.0
3-1	7.7	39	--	6.8-5.2	0.1	79.6	0.0	2.6	3.4	0.1	0.0
3-1	-7.4	99	--	7.0-5.1	0.2	81.8	4.9	2.6	0.3	0.0	0.0
2-2	-2.9	81	--	7.1-5.2	1.3	84.5	0.0	13.5	0.1	0.0	0.0
2-1	11.2	28	--	7.1-4.9	0.1	86.7	0.0	0.4	5.5	0.3	0.1
3-1	6.9	43	--	7.2-4.9	0.3	85.4	0.0	2.7	3.9	0.1	0.0
3-1	13.3	23	--	7.2-4.9	0.1	88.9	0.0	0.7	6.5	0.4	0.1
3-1	6.5	46	--	7.2-4.9	0.4	85.1	0.0	2.9	3.7	0.1	0.0
2-2	10.8	31	--	7.3-4.8	3.3	87.8	0.0	3.1	3.6	0.1	0.0
3-1	7.4	40	--	7.3-4.8	0.2	89.7	0.0	1.7	4.3	0.1	0.0
3-2	-8.5	105	--	7.3-5.1	2.6	87.3	0.0	14.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-1	14.4	19	--	7.4-4.7	0.2	91.5	0.0	0.8	16.3	1.0	0.4
2-2	-10.0	111	--	7.4-4.8	2.4	90.1	0.0	6.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-1	-4.9	87	--	7.4-4.7	0.5	88.4	0.0	5.3	0.4	0.0	0.0
2-1	-2.3	79	--	7.4-4.8	0.8	84.7	0.0	8.0	0.5	0.0	0.0
2-1	-5.3	89	--	7.4-4.7	0.5	87.8	0.0	6.7	0.3	0.0	0.0
4-0	7.1	42	--	7.5-4.6	0.1	90.5	0.0	1.8	5.1	0.1	0.0
2-2	-7.7	101	--	7.5-4.8	3.0	90.8	0.0	10.3	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-1	7.4	41	--	7.6-4.5	0.7	92.2	0.0	1.1	6.0	0.1	0.0
4-1	14.8	18	--	7.7-4.3	0.4	97.0	0.0	0.8	9.1	0.6	0.2
2-2	0.1	64	--	7.7-4.6	4.9	92.8	0.0	16.0	0.5	0.0	0.0
3-1	6.0	48	--	7.8-4.2	1.0	94.9	0.0	0.6	4.1	0.1	0.0
3-1	-5.6	90	--	7.8-4.3	1.0	93.3	11.6	6.3	0.6	0.0	0.0
3-1	11.5	27	--	7.9-4.2	1.3	93.7	0.0	3.6	7.5	0.3	0.1
3-1	9.1	37	--	8.0-4.1	0.6	96.0	0.0	2.5	5.0	0.1	0.0
4-0	14.3	20	--	8.0-4.0	0.1	97.5	0.0	1.3	23.8	1.6	0.5
3-1	18.2	11	--	8.1-4.0	2.1	95.2	0.0	1.5	22.5	2.4	0.8
3-1	9.7	34	--	8.1-3.9	3.0	94.7	0.0	2.4	4.1	0.1	0.0
3-1	11.8	26	--	8.2-4.0	2.7	95.8	0.0	5.7	8.2	0.3	0.1
4-0	8.9	38	--	8.3-3.8	0.2	97.5	0.0	2.0	8.3	0.2	0.1
2-2	-2.8	80	--	8.4-4.0	10.7	98.0	0.0	25.6	0.2	0.0	0.0
3-1	-0.2	68	--	8.5-3.9	4.1	96.3	0.0	19.0	4.7	0.0	0.0
3-1	0.0	65	--	8.5-3.8	4.0	97.0	0.0	17.8	2.6	0.0	0.0
3-1	22.1	8	--	8.6-3.5	4.0	98.4	0.0	4.3	40.5	6.6	3.1
4-0	10.4	32	--	8.6-3.5	0.4	98.6	0.0	1.5	12.5	0.5	0.1
4-0	12.8	25	--	8.8-3.4	0.8	98.4	0.0	3.4	22.9	1.2	0.4
4-0	16.0	14	--	8.8-3.3	0.5	99.4	0.0	4.3	25.8	2.4	0.8
3-1	-3.0	82	--	8.8-3.6	6.5	98.0	42.3	14.7	2.0	0.0	0.0
4-0	10.9	30	--	8.8-3.3	0.6	98.9	0.0	3.7	15.4	0.6	0.2
3-1	15.6	15	--	8.9-3.1	8.1	99.3	0.0	2.2	9.2	0.7	0.2
4-0	19.3	10	--	9.0-3.2	0.9	99.3	0.0	6.6	49.2	6.2	2.5
3-0	14.9	17	--	9.1-3.3	1.3	98.3	0.0	19.2	30.1	2.2	0.7
3-1	21.7	9	--	9.1-3.3	6.1	99.2	0.0	18.7	40.6	6.4	2.9
4-0	-1.5	73	--	9.2-3.1	2.0	99.3	0.0	15.5	5.5	0.0	0.0
4-0	-8.3	103	--	9.2-3.0	1.5	99.6	0.0	9.5	1.6	0.0	0.0
4-0	13.5	22	--	9.3-3.0	1.5	99.5	0.0	7.5	22.3	1.2	0.3
3-1	-2.1	77	--	9.5-3.2	12.0	98.8	0.0	46.5	1.1	0.0	0.0
3-1	11.1	29	--	9.6-2.2	37.4	99.6	0.0	68.0	33.6	0.6	0.1
3-1	27.8	3	--	9.7-2.9	16.4	99.7	0.0	40.3	68.5	21.1	11.8
4-0	-0.4	69	--	10.0-2.7	4.2	99.9	0.0	27.9	7.7	0.0	0.0
3-1	4.7	53	--	10.0-2.7	22.5	99.8	0.0	48.5	7.4	0.0	0.0
4-0	24.6	6	--	10.0-2.4	6.7	99.9	0.0	18.0	72.7	17.5	8.4
3-1	0.9	62	--	10.3-2.4	28.8	100.0	0.0	46.3	2.4	0.0	0.0
4-0	18.2	12	--	10.6-1.9	16.0	100.0	0.0	31.7	49.4	4.9	1.9
4-0	17.0	13	--	10.6-2.0	17.5	99.9	0.0	31.0	48.6	3.6	1.3
4-0	26.9	4	--	10.6-1.9	17.5	100.0	0.0	30.2	89.3	26.8	14.6
4-0	24.4	7	--	10.7-1.8	15.5	100.0	0.0	26.4	68.2	15.0	7.5
4-0	28.3	1	--	11.0-1.6	23.9	100.0	0.0	36.3	84.0	27.8	15.8
4-0	27.8	2	--	11.1-0.9	39.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	84.8	25.7	14.3
4-0	5.9	49	--	11.2-1.5	27.8	100.0	73.4	56.3	28.4	0.2	0.1
4-0	25.7	5	--	11.4-1.6	18.1	100.0	0.0	72.7	85.5	19.7	10.2

Last Updated: September 30, 2026

The Football Power Index (FPI) is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the rest of the season. FPI represents how many points above or below average a team is. Projected results are based on 20,000 simulations of the rest of the season using FPI, results to date, and the remaining schedule. Ratings and projections update daily. FPI data from seasons prior to 2019 may not be complete.

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