College Football Power Index 2026


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

	POWER INDEX			PROJECTIONS
W-L	FPI	RK	TREND	PROJ W-L	WIN OUT%	6WINS%	WIN DIV%	WIN CONF%	PLAYOFF%	MAKE NC%	WIN NC%
1-7	-33.2	138	--	1.4-10.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-7	-14.6	122	--	1.9-10.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-7	-9.1	101	--	2.4-9.6	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-7	-23.2	135	--	1.7-10.3	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-6	-22.0	133	--	1.8-10.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-6	-25.3	137	--	1.8-10.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-7	-22.8	134	--	1.1-10.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-6	-24.2	136	--	2.0-10.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-2.5	80	--	2.7-9.3	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-4.4	87	--	2.9-9.1	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-6	-17.9	130	--	3.3-8.7	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-6	-17.6	129	--	2.9-9.1	0.7	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-3.9	84	--	3.0-9.0	0.1	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-5	0.3	68	--	3.6-8.4	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-6	1.2	64	--	3.5-8.5	1.5	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-6	-15.3	125	--	3.6-8.4	2.5	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-6	-14.2	120	--	3.3-8.7	2.9	2.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-1.9	75	--	3.4-8.6	0.3	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-16.9	128	--	3.7-8.3	0.1	3.8	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-12.2	112	--	3.7-8.3	0.2	4.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	2.0	59	--	3.9-8.1	0.0	4.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-7.1	93	--	3.8-8.2	0.2	4.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-13.6	118	--	3.9-8.1	0.2	5.6	1.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-5	-6.0	91	--	4.2-7.8	0.5	7.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-6.3	92	--	4.2-7.8	0.2	7.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-4	-10.0	106	--	4.5-7.5	0.0	7.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-5	-20.1	131	--	4.2-7.8	0.8	8.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-5	-9.7	105	--	4.4-7.6	0.3	9.5	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-6	-9.3	103	--	4.4-7.6	9.6	9.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-10.9	109	--	4.2-7.8	0.1	10.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-5	-9.1	102	--	4.3-7.7	1.2	11.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	2.2	58	--	4.5-7.5	0.0	13.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-5	-21.0	132	--	4.6-7.4	2.1	17.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-11.2	111	--	4.5-7.5	0.1	17.7	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	1.5	63	--	4.7-7.3	0.6	21.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	1.6	62	--	4.8-7.2	0.3	23.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	4.3	55	--	4.9-7.1	0.8	28.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-7.5	94	--	5.1-7.0	0.1	29.6	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	0.2	69	--	5.1-6.9	0.0	30.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	7.3	44	--	5.0-7.0	0.9	31.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-0.0	70	--	5.1-6.9	0.9	32.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-5	-16.3	127	--	5.3-6.7	4.6	38.5	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	4.5	54	--	5.3-6.7	0.2	39.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-12.8	114	--	5.3-6.9	0.4	41.2	0.0	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	0.6	66	--	5.4-6.6	0.1	43.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-12.3	113	--	5.3-6.8	0.2	43.5	0.0	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-13.7	119	--	5.5-6.5	0.0	48.3	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-10.8	107	--	5.5-6.5	1.6	50.4	0.0	1.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-5	-14.3	121	--	5.5-6.5	13.4	51.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-4	-13.3	117	--	5.6-7.4	0.0	52.1	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-11.0	110	--	5.6-6.5	1.2	52.9	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-4	13.4	22	--	5.6-6.4	2.8	54.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	6.4	48	--	5.9-6.1	0.8	62.4	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-4	-4.0	85	--	5.9-6.2	4.9	63.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	0.7	65	--	5.9-6.1	0.0	63.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-16.0	126	--	6.0-6.1	0.1	66.4	0.0	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-15.0	123	--	6.1-5.9	1.0	68.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-3	1.9	61	--	6.0-6.0	0.2	69.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	10.1	37	--	6.1-5.9	8.6	71.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-4.9	90	--	6.1-5.9	8.8	71.4	3.5	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-4	6.0	50	--	6.0-6.0	4.2	71.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	9.1	38	--	6.1-5.9	0.8	71.9	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0
5-2	-10.9	108	--	6.2-5.8	0.0	72.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-4	-4.2	86	--	6.1-5.9	7.4	73.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	5.7	52	--	6.4-5.6	2.6	77.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	5.8	51	--	6.4-5.6	2.1	78.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-4	-15.0	124	--	6.2-5.8	4.8	78.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-8.8	99	--	6.4-5.7	0.5	78.4	11.7	2.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-4.8	89	--	6.3-5.7	1.7	78.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	12.4	26	--	6.4-5.6	2.1	80.1	0.0	0.1	1.1	0.0	0.0
4-3	14.1	19	--	6.6-5.5	1.7	81.7	0.0	1.6	4.3	0.2	0.0
4-4	-8.7	98	--	6.4-5.7	5.5	83.4	5.2	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	7.4	43	--	6.5-5.5	1.3	84.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
4-3	-7.5	95	--	6.7-5.3	4.9	84.6	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-0.3	72	--	6.6-5.6	0.5	86.0	0.0	3.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	11.1	34	--	6.5-5.5	1.2	86.9	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
5-3	-13.2	116	--	6.4-5.7	0.1	86.9	0.0	1.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	8.5	40	--	6.5-5.5	0.8	87.7	0.0	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0
4-4	-3.7	83	--	6.5-5.5	11.2	87.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-1.0	74	--	7.0-5.1	2.4	91.6	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	6.6	45	--	7.1-4.9	9.0	92.5	0.0	0.6	0.6	0.0	0.0
4-3	12.1	29	--	6.8-5.2	2.0	93.8	0.0	0.0	1.8	0.1	0.0
3-4	11.9	30	--	7.0-5.0	30.7	93.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	6.5	47	--	7.0-5.0	0.4	95.3	0.0	0.2	0.7	0.0	0.0
5-2	12.2	28	--	7.1-4.9	0.3	95.4	0.0	0.5	4.7	0.1	0.0
5-3	-9.6	104	--	7.2-4.9	2.8	96.4	0.0	5.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	17.0	11	--	7.3-4.8	5.0	96.6	0.0	0.7	2.0	0.1	0.0
5-3	-12.9	115	--	7.4-4.8	5.1	97.2	0.0	4.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	7.6	42	--	7.4-4.6	0.6	97.5	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
4-3	-2.5	78	--	7.4-4.8	2.7	97.7	0.0	8.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	11.1	35	--	7.7-4.3	4.6	98.1	0.0	0.0	4.3	0.1	0.0
4-3	13.6	21	--	7.6-4.5	14.1	98.5	0.0	1.6	1.7	0.1	0.0
5-3	8.6	39	--	7.5-4.5	11.2	98.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	14.5	17	--	7.7-4.3	1.2	98.9	0.0	2.2	16.8	0.9	0.3
5-2	-8.8	100	--	8.3-4.4	2.6	99.3	0.0	15.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	-2.1	76	--	8.1-3.9	7.3	99.3	0.0	1.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	11.2	33	--	8.2-3.9	4.3	99.3	0.0	5.9	6.8	0.2	0.0
5-2	-0.3	73	--	8.4-4.0	4.9	99.4	0.0	15.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	-7.5	96	--	8.0-4.1	2.6	99.4	11.6	4.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	-4.8	88	--	7.8-4.3	1.2	99.5	0.0	2.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	-2.3	77	--	8.6-4.1	4.8	99.5	72.8	24.9	0.8	0.0	0.0
5-3	-3.4	82	--	8.0-4.1	25.3	99.7	8.8	2.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	16.7	13	--	8.3-3.7	9.0	99.9	0.0	0.2	8.2	0.6	0.2
5-2	6.1	49	--	8.7-4.1	4.9	99.9	0.0	29.6	4.1	0.0	0.0
5-2	10.7	36	--	8.6-3.5	13.2	99.9	0.0	1.5	9.8	0.2	0.0
5-3	-3.1	81	--	8.7-3.9	28.9	99.9	0.0	34.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
6-1	13.3	23	--	9.1-3.1	3.5	100.0	0.0	10.0	18.9	0.8	0.2
7-0	11.7	31	--	10.3-2.0	1.7	100.0	0.0	4.9	50.6	2.1	0.4
6-2	12.7	25	--	7.7-4.3	0.7	100.0	0.0	0.2	3.7	0.2	0.0
6-1	26.5	4	--	10.6-2.1	26.2	100.0	0.0	47.0	80.0	23.9	13.0
6-1	11.3	32	--	10.9-2.0	32.4	100.0	0.0	64.7	47.2	1.0	0.2
6-1	13.8	20	--	8.6-3.4	0.8	100.0	0.0	0.6	19.5	1.1	0.3
7-1	24.1	6	--	10.9-1.7	35.4	100.0	0.0	32.1	88.7	20.6	9.6
6-1	27.7	2	--	10.4-1.6	48.6	100.0	0.0	0.0	82.4	24.5	14.1
7-1	13.1	24	--	8.9-3.4	1.0	100.0	0.0	6.7	52.1	2.6	0.7
6-2	24.0	7	--	8.8-3.4	12.6	100.0	0.0	10.1	45.3	8.9	4.1
5-2	18.9	9	--	8.5-3.6	6.4	100.0	0.0	5.3	38.5	4.0	1.4
6-1	15.1	16	--	10.0-2.5	5.7	100.0	0.0	10.2	41.9	2.6	0.8
6-1	7.9	41	--	11.0-1.9	36.7	100.0	0.0	70.0	20.3	0.2	0.0
6-1	28.2	1	--	10.8-2.1	29.7	100.0	0.0	59.8	91.4	33.3	19.6
6-2	-7.9	97	--	8.8-3.7	6.5	100.0	0.0	20.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
6-2	1.9	60	--	8.8-3.4	12.0	100.0	0.0	14.3	0.5	0.0	0.0
6-2	14.4	18	--	9.2-3.0	27.0	100.0	0.0	8.3	19.8	0.8	0.3
5-2	2.7	56	--	9.2-3.5	13.9	100.0	0.0	34.9	2.0	0.0	0.0
5-2	24.0	8	--	8.8-3.3	15.3	100.0	0.0	7.7	57.9	11.4	5.5
6-1	16.3	15	--	9.9-2.5	10.0	100.0	0.0	20.9	49.2	3.5	1.1
7-0	17.0	10	--	10.8-1.9	8.7	100.0	0.0	35.7	60.7	5.5	1.7
7-1	5.3	53	--	11.1-1.8	40.5	100.0	84.6	61.7	7.3	0.0	0.0
6-2	6.6	46	--	7.8-4.2	0.8	100.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
6-2	24.5	5	--	9.4-2.9	24.5	100.0	0.0	16.0	63.1	12.9	6.2
6-1	2.5	57	--	11.1-1.8	40.8	100.0	0.0	77.6	3.0	0.0	0.0
7-0	27.5	3	--	12.0-1.0	26.7	100.0	0.0	82.0	97.6	32.8	18.5
6-2	-0.2	71	--	9.5-3.1	15.5	100.0	0.0	17.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
6-1	12.3	27	--	9.0-3.4	0.5	100.0	0.0	6.0	15.4	0.6	0.1
6-2	16.8	12	--	8.4-3.7	6.0	100.0	0.0	2.8	23.1	1.7	0.6
7-1	0.5	67	--	10.1-2.6	10.7	100.0	0.0	33.1	16.5	0.0	0.0
6-1	16.7	14	--	9.8-2.6	10.7	100.0	0.0	18.0	33.5	2.4	0.9
6-2	-2.5	79	--	9.7-2.9	26.1	100.0	0.0	35.3	0.0	0.0	0.0

Last Updated: October 27, 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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