College Football Power Index 2026


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

	POWER INDEX			PROJECTIONS
W-L	FPI	RK	TREND	PROJ W-L	WIN OUT%	6WINS%	WIN DIV%	WIN CONF%	PLAYOFF%	MAKE NC%	WIN NC%
1-0	10.8	27	--	6.4-5.6	0.0	68.8	0.0	0.6	8.3	0.5	0.2
0-1	-14.5	122	--	4.2-7.8	0.0	21.8	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-9.6	106	--	5.9-6.2	0.0	56.3	9.9	4.4	0.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	2.3	60	--	3.6-8.4	0.0	12.9	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
1-0	7.5	36	--	6.5-5.5	0.0	69.1	0.0	3.9	6.1	0.2	0.1
1-0	6.9	39	--	7.1-5.0	0.0	78.1	0.0	3.6	5.9	0.2	0.1
1-1	-18.7	134	--	4.4-7.6	0.0	24.6	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-1	-10.1	109	--	6.4-6.7	0.0	66.8	0.0	2.5	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-1	-4.6	87	--	4.1-7.9	0.0	16.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-3.0	78	--	4.1-7.9	0.0	21.5	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	5.1	46	--	6.5-5.5	0.0	69.7	0.0	0.4	3.3	0.1	0.0
1-0	-7.9	102	--	5.1-6.1	0.0	38.9	0.0	3.3	0.6	0.0	0.0
1-0	4.9	47	--	6.5-5.6	0.0	67.0	0.0	2.5	4.3	0.1	0.0
1-0	-7.5	100	--	5.7-6.3	0.0	51.9	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-4.6	86	--	7.6-4.9	0.0	81.9	0.0	26.5	1.9	0.0	0.0
1-1	7.3	37	--	5.8-6.2	0.0	55.8	0.0	0.5	1.4	0.0	0.0
1-0	15.6	16	1	7.2-4.9	0.0	80.1	0.0	2.1	18.1	1.7	0.7
0-1	3.6	54	1	5.0-7.1	0.0	37.8	0.0	0.5	0.8	0.0	0.0
1-0	-0.8	68	--	5.1-6.9	0.0	40.0	0.0	0.4	0.7	0.0	0.0
1-0	2.6	57	--	5.3-6.7	0.0	44.4	0.0	0.0	1.2	0.0	0.0
1-0	6.5	40	--	4.7-7.3	0.0	30.4	0.0	0.1	2.0	0.1	0.0
0-1	-11.6	114	--	4.9-7.2	0.0	36.7	0.0	7.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-4.6	85	--	3.2-8.8	0.0	6.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	2.9	56	--	5.6-6.4	0.0	52.5	0.0	0.1	1.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	1.3	62	--	5.4-6.6	0.0	45.8	0.0	0.1	0.9	0.0	0.0
1-0	11.8	21	--	7.0-5.1	0.0	80.0	0.0	1.2	10.3	0.7	0.2
1-0	2.3	59	--	5.5-6.5	0.0	48.0	0.0	0.1	1.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	10.2	29	--	5.9-6.1	0.0	58.3	0.0	0.3	5.1	0.3	0.1
1-0	15.5	17	1	7.3-4.7	0.0	84.2	0.0	1.8	20.2	2.3	0.8
1-0	4.7	50	--	6.9-5.2	0.0	76.2	0.0	0.9	3.2	0.1	0.0
0-1	-1.2	71	--	5.0-7.0	0.0	38.9	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	6.3	44	--	6.4-5.6	0.0	68.1	0.0	1.1	4.4	0.2	0.0
1-0	3.8	52	--	6.5-5.5	0.0	69.9	0.0	0.7	2.5	0.1	0.0
1-0	11.3	23	--	7.5-4.6	0.0	87.8	0.0	1.2	10.0	0.7	0.2
0-1	-6.9	96	--	2.7-9.3	0.0	3.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-1	-13.0	120	--	5.4-6.8	0.0	45.3	0.0	5.3	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	3.5	55	1	5.9-6.1	0.0	57.7	0.0	0.6	2.0	0.1	0.0
0-1	-14.6	123	--	4.2-7.9	0.0	23.3	0.0	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-12.2	117	--	5.8-6.4	0.0	54.6	0.0	5.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-1.6	72	--	4.0-8.1	0.0	19.1	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.0
0-1	-7.2	98	--	4.6-6.5	0.0	30.5	0.0	4.2	0.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	-7.3	99	--	5.8-6.2	0.0	54.7	0.0	2.7	0.6	0.0	0.0
0-1	6.4	42	--	6.0-6.1	0.0	59.2	0.0	1.5	3.0	0.1	0.0
1-0	7.8	35	--	5.9-6.1	0.0	56.0	0.0	0.2	3.9	0.2	0.1
1-0	-12.2	116	--	4.2-7.8	0.0	24.4	0.0	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-6.7	93	--	6.2-5.9	0.0	62.3	0.0	3.8	0.7	0.0	0.0
1-0	9.5	30	--	6.9-5.1	0.0	78.2	0.0	0.7	7.0	0.3	0.2
0-1	-4.4	84	--	4.9-6.2	0.0	36.2	0.0	6.7	0.6	0.0	0.0
0-1	3.8	53	--	6.0-6.0	0.0	60.5	0.0	0.2	1.2	0.0	0.0
0-1	-13.5	121	--	5.3-6.8	0.0	45.0	5.2	2.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-0.8	69	--	5.3-6.7	0.0	43.7	0.0	0.3	0.7	0.0	0.0
0-1	-7.0	97	--	5.1-6.1	0.0	40.6	0.0	4.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
1-0	-8.0	104	--	6.1-6.1	0.0	58.0	13.6	6.4	0.6	0.0	0.0
1-0	-6.1	92	--	6.5-5.7	0.0	66.1	14.9	7.7	1.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-6.7	94	--	7.4-4.8	0.0	81.7	20.4	9.6	1.5	0.0	0.0
0-1	-11.1	113	--	5.2-6.9	0.0	42.6	7.0	2.9	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-7.9	103	--	4.7-6.4	0.0	34.3	0.0	3.2	0.4	0.0	0.0
0-1	-10.5	110	--	3.1-7.9	0.0	9.1	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	8.7	33	--	5.4-6.6	0.0	46.2	0.0	0.2	3.9	0.2	0.1
1-0	5.7	45	--	6.4-5.6	0.0	67.4	0.0	0.3	3.0	0.1	0.1
1-0	-5.8	90	--	6.9-5.3	0.0	73.0	0.0	7.6	1.3	0.0	0.0
0-1	-16.8	129	--	4.4-7.6	0.0	27.2	0.0	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-10.7	111	--	5.3-6.8	0.0	45.6	8.5	3.4	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-19.0	135	--	4.2-7.9	0.0	23.5	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-12.6	118	--	6.4-5.7	0.0	66.3	0.0	4.3	0.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	4.8	49	--	6.7-5.4	0.0	70.3	0.0	2.8	4.4	0.1	0.0
0-1	-17.1	130	--	4.7-7.3	0.0	34.3	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	6.3	43	--	7.1-5.0	0.0	78.2	0.0	3.0	5.2	0.2	0.0
1-1	-15.6	126	--	4.9-7.1	0.0	34.7	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-15.3	124	--	4.0-8.0	0.0	20.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-12.1	115	--	5.7-6.4	0.0	52.5	0.0	5.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-12.6	119	--	5.2-6.9	0.0	41.4	4.7	1.8	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	4.0	51	--	6.3-5.7	0.0	64.5	0.0	1.6	2.5	0.1	0.0
0-1	-23.6	137	--	2.9-9.2	0.0	6.9	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-6.0	91	--	6.5-5.8	0.0	66.3	20.3	10.2	1.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-15.4	125	--	4.8-7.2	0.0	34.9	0.0	2.9	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-17.2	131	--	2.2-9.8	0.0	3.5	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-24.2	138	--	2.4-9.6	0.0	4.5	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-17.7	133	--	3.1-8.9	0.0	10.1	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-1.6	73	--	4.0-8.0	0.0	19.3	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
0-1	-16.6	128	--	4.1-8.0	0.0	22.6	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-15.9	127	--	4.4-7.7	0.0	27.3	0.0	2.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	4.8	48	--	5.7-6.3	0.0	53.4	0.0	2.0	2.2	0.0	0.0
1-0	15.3	18	--	7.1-5.0	0.0	79.4	0.0	1.8	17.4	1.9	0.7
1-0	-3.8	82	--	7.0-5.2	0.0	75.7	0.0	7.7	2.3	0.0	0.0
0-1	-19.1	136	--	3.3-8.7	0.0	9.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-9.1	105	--	6.4-5.7	0.0	65.3	10.4	4.6	0.5	0.0	0.0
0-1	-17.6	132	--	3.8-8.2	0.0	17.8	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-1	-10.0	108	--	6.4-5.8	0.1	66.9	0.0	8.9	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-2	-6.9	95	--	5.5-6.6	0.1	50.7	0.0	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	7.1	38	--	6.2-5.8	0.1	64.3	0.0	3.4	4.2	0.2	0.0
1-0	6.5	41	--	7.2-4.9	0.1	80.5	0.0	3.2	5.6	0.2	0.0
1-0	9.4	31	--	7.6-4.5	0.1	85.7	0.0	3.1	8.5	0.4	0.1
1-0	-5.5	89	--	7.8-4.6	0.1	84.6	0.0	24.3	2.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-0.6	67	--	7.7-4.7	0.1	84.6	0.0	16.5	4.4	0.0	0.0
1-0	-3.1	79	--	7.4-4.9	0.1	80.7	0.0	11.8	2.6	0.0	0.0
1-0	-3.0	77	--	7.6-4.7	0.1	82.8	30.3	17.1	2.7	0.0	0.0
1-0	15.9	15	--	7.4-4.7	0.1	83.1	0.0	2.2	19.5	2.1	0.8
1-0	19.2	11	--	7.7-4.4	0.2	85.6	0.0	5.0	31.0	4.8	2.0
1-0	-3.4	81	--	7.8-4.3	0.2	88.1	0.0	8.1	3.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-1.8	74	--	7.5-4.8	0.2	80.8	0.0	10.7	3.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	11.0	25	1	7.8-4.2	0.2	89.0	0.0	1.7	10.1	0.5	0.1
0-1	-0.5	66	--	6.6-5.6	0.2	69.5	0.0	11.3	1.5	0.0	0.0
2-0	17.5	13	--	8.5-3.7	0.3	97.3	0.0	4.6	26.5	3.0	1.2
1-0	-11.0	112	--	7.9-4.3	0.3	88.2	0.0	6.4	1.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	0.9	64	--	8.5-3.9	0.3	93.6	0.0	23.2	6.5	0.0	0.0
1-0	-5.2	88	--	7.7-4.6	0.3	83.9	24.9	12.8	2.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	11.6	22	--	8.3-3.9	0.4	92.7	0.0	4.8	13.6	0.8	0.2
0-1	-3.2	80	--	7.1-5.0	0.5	79.2	0.0	8.5	1.9	0.0	0.0
1-0	21.3	10	--	8.3-3.8	0.5	93.4	0.0	6.7	39.6	7.4	3.2
1-0	-2.5	76	--	8.2-4.1	0.5	89.9	29.6	17.1	3.5	0.0	0.0
1-0	1.2	63	--	7.4-4.0	0.6	82.7	0.0	21.8	6.5	0.0	0.0
1-0	-2.3	75	--	8.2-3.9	0.6	92.1	0.0	8.3	3.7	0.0	0.0
0-1	-7.6	101	--	7.2-5.1	0.6	78.2	0.0	15.2	0.2	0.0	0.0
0-1	-10.0	107	--	7.1-5.1	0.7	78.0	0.0	10.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	12.1	20	--	8.9-3.5	0.7	97.3	0.0	9.9	20.8	1.1	0.4
1-0	8.8	32	--	8.1-4.0	0.9	88.7	0.0	6.9	10.9	0.4	0.2
2-0	2.1	61	--	8.9-3.4	1.2	97.2	0.0	21.3	11.4	0.1	0.0
1-0	14.1	19	--	8.7-3.7	1.2	93.2	0.0	18.2	26.4	1.9	0.7
0-1	10.8	28	--	7.5-4.7	1.5	84.7	0.0	5.0	7.6	0.2	0.0
1-0	11.1	24	--	8.5-3.7	1.5	92.5	0.0	10.0	15.8	0.6	0.2
1-0	11.0	26	1	8.7-3.5	1.5	96.1	0.0	4.6	13.4	0.6	0.2
2-0	0.2	65	--	9.0-3.4	1.5	97.5	0.0	20.4	6.3	0.0	0.0
0-1	-4.0	83	--	8.0-4.5	2.2	87.6	0.0	25.6	0.8	0.0	0.0
1-0	22.5	9	--	9.0-3.3	2.4	96.3	0.0	11.3	49.2	9.4	4.4
1-0	24.3	7	--	9.4-2.9	4.1	98.2	0.0	14.2	58.4	13.6	6.5
1-1	2.3	58	--	8.5-4.0	4.4	94.1	0.0	31.5	2.9	0.0	0.0
1-0	22.7	8	--	9.8-2.5	4.4	99.4	0.0	15.1	53.8	10.0	4.5
0-1	-0.9	70	--	8.7-3.9	4.5	94.5	0.0	39.3	3.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	24.9	5	--	9.9-2.5	9.2	99.0	0.0	18.3	61.5	14.7	7.4
1-0	17.2	14	--	9.8-2.4	9.2	99.2	0.0	8.5	31.5	3.5	1.3
1-0	30.0	2	--	10.4-2.2	10.1	99.7	0.0	44.6	78.1	28.4	17.1
1-0	30.2	1	--	10.2-2.4	10.5	99.2	0.0	35.2	79.3	29.7	18.1
1-0	24.3	6	--	10.4-2.0	12.6	99.9	0.0	21.3	58.7	12.9	6.2
0-1	7.8	34	--	8.6-3.2	14.7	93.7	0.0	55.4	17.3	0.3	0.1
1-0	18.4	12	--	10.6-2.0	19.3	99.5	0.0	38.0	48.3	4.8	1.9
2-0	25.7	4	--	11.2-1.6	19.4	100.0	0.0	66.7	79.4	17.0	8.4
1-0	27.0	3	--	10.8-1.2	31.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	77.2	20.4	10.9

Last Updated: September 11, 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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