College Football Power Index 2026


Team	CONF
Charlotte 49ers	American
UL Monroe Warhawks	Sun Belt
Rutgers Scarlet Knights	Big Ten
Kent State Golden Flashes	MAC
Utah State Aggies	Pac-12
Northern Illinois Huskies	Mountain West
Boston College Eagles	ACC
UTEP Miners	Mountain West
Arkansas Razorbacks	SEC
Wyoming Cowboys	Mountain West
Oklahoma State Cowboys	Big 12
Purdue Boilermakers	Big Ten
Florida Atlantic Owls	American
Stanford Cardinal	ACC
California Golden Bears	ACC
Sam Houston Bearkats	CUSA
Ball State Cardinals	MAC
UAB Blazers	American
Bowling Green Falcons	MAC
Rice Owls	American
Sacramento State Hornets	MAC
Missouri State Bears	CUSA
Akron Zips	MAC
Oregon State Beavers	Pac-12
Kentucky Wildcats	SEC
Central Michigan Chippewas	MAC
Texas State Bobcats	Pac-12
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders	CUSA
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers	CUSA
Washington State Cougars	Pac-12
Eastern Michigan Eagles	MAC
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	ACC
NC State Wolfpack	ACC
Colorado State Rams	Pac-12
Fresno State Bulldogs	Pac-12
Iowa State Cyclones	Big 12
Georgia State Panthers	Sun Belt
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers	Sun Belt
Marshall Thundering Herd	Sun Belt
West Virginia Mountaineers	Big 12
Northwestern Wildcats	Big Ten
Arkansas State Red Wolves	Sun Belt
New Mexico State Aggies	CUSA
Michigan State Spartans	Big Ten
Mississippi State Bulldogs	SEC
Minnesota Golden Gophers	Big Ten
Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors	Mountain West
Maryland Terrapins	Big Ten
UConn Huskies	FBS Indep.
Florida International Panthers	CUSA
TCU Horned Frogs	Big 12
Miami (OH) RedHawks	MAC
Florida State Seminoles	ACC
Temple Owls	American
Vanderbilt Commodores	SEC
Missouri Tigers	SEC
South Alabama Jaguars	Sun Belt
Syracuse Orange	ACC
Clemson Tigers	ACC
Wisconsin Badgers	Big Ten
Georgia Southern Eagles	Sun Belt
North Texas Mean Green	American
Baylor Bears	Big 12
Kansas Jayhawks	Big 12
San José State Spartans	Mountain West
Buffalo Bulls	MAC
Troy Trojans	Sun Belt
Illinois Fighting Illini	Big Ten
Jacksonville State Gamecocks	CUSA
North Carolina Tar Heels	ACC
Auburn Tigers	SEC
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs	Sun Belt
Old Dominion Monarchs	Sun Belt
Colorado Buffaloes	Big 12
UCLA Bruins	Big Ten
Wake Forest Demon Deacons	ACC
Arizona State Sun Devils	Big 12
Tulane Green Wave	American
UCF Knights	Big 12
Air Force Falcons	Mountain West
Duke Blue Devils	ACC
Washington Huskies	Big Ten
Michigan Wolverines	Big Ten
UTSA Roadrunners	American
Cincinnati Bearcats	Big 12
Arizona Wildcats	Big 12
Tennessee Volunteers	SEC
Ohio Bobcats	MAC
East Carolina Pirates	American
Florida Gators	SEC
Liberty Flames	CUSA
Houston Cougars	Big 12
Ole Miss Rebels	SEC
South Carolina Gamecocks	SEC
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns	Sun Belt
Nevada Wolf Pack	Mountain West
San Diego State Aztecs	Pac-12
Army Black Knights	American
Nebraska Cornhuskers	Big Ten
Louisville Cardinals	ACC
Delaware Blue Hens	CUSA
Virginia Tech Hokies	ACC
Southern Miss Golden Eagles	Sun Belt
Navy Midshipmen	American
App State Mountaineers	Sun Belt
Oklahoma Sooners	SEC
Kennesaw State Owls	CUSA
Iowa Hawkeyes	Big Ten
Tulsa Golden Hurricane	American
Massachusetts Minutemen	MAC
Toledo Rockets	MAC
Kansas State Wildcats	Big 12
James Madison Dukes	Sun Belt
South Florida Bulls	American
Pittsburgh Panthers	ACC
Texas A&M Aggies	SEC
USC Trojans	Big Ten
New Mexico Lobos	Mountain West
Utah Utes	Big 12
UNLV Rebels	Mountain West
Boise State Broncos	Pac-12
BYU Cougars	Big 12
Virginia Cavaliers	ACC
Western Michigan Broncos	MAC
SMU Mustangs	ACC
Memphis Tigers	American
Alabama Crimson Tide	SEC
North Dakota State Bison	Mountain West
LSU Tigers	SEC
Oregon Ducks	Big Ten
Penn State Nittany Lions	Big Ten
Georgia Bulldogs	SEC
Texas Longhorns	SEC
Indiana Hoosiers	Big Ten
Ohio State Buckeyes	Big Ten
Texas Tech Red Raiders	Big 12
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	FBS Indep.
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%
0-1	-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	-6.9	96	--	2.7-9.3	0.0	3.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	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
0-1	-10.5	110	--	3.1-7.9	0.0	9.1	0.0	1.5	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
0-1	-4.6	85	--	3.2-8.8	0.0	6.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	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	2.3	60	--	3.6-8.4	0.0	12.9	0.0	0.0	0.4	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
0-1	-1.6	72	--	4.0-8.1	0.0	19.1	0.0	0.3	0.3	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	-15.3	124	--	4.0-8.0	0.0	20.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	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
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	-19.0	135	--	4.2-7.9	0.0	23.5	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-14.5	122	--	4.2-7.8	0.0	21.8	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	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
1-0	-12.2	116	--	4.2-7.8	0.0	24.4	0.0	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-1	-18.7	134	--	4.4-7.6	0.0	24.6	0.0	0.4	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	-16.8	129	--	4.4-7.6	0.0	27.2	0.0	1.7	0.0	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	6.5	40	--	4.7-7.3	0.0	30.4	0.0	0.1	2.0	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
0-1	-7.9	103	--	4.7-6.4	0.0	34.3	0.0	3.2	0.4	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	-11.6	114	--	4.9-7.2	0.0	36.7	0.0	7.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-4.4	84	--	4.9-6.2	0.0	36.2	0.0	6.7	0.6	0.0	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	3.6	54	1	5.0-7.1	0.0	37.8	0.0	0.5	0.8	0.0	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	-7.9	102	--	5.1-6.1	0.0	38.9	0.0	3.3	0.6	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	-0.8	68	--	5.1-6.9	0.0	40.0	0.0	0.4	0.7	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
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	-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
1-0	2.6	57	--	5.3-6.7	0.0	44.4	0.0	0.0	1.2	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
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	1.3	62	--	5.4-6.6	0.0	45.8	0.0	0.1	0.9	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	2.3	59	--	5.5-6.5	0.0	48.0	0.0	0.1	1.0	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
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	-7.5	100	--	5.7-6.3	0.0	51.9	0.0	0.0	0.1	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
0-1	4.8	48	--	5.7-6.3	0.0	53.4	0.0	2.0	2.2	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
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	-7.3	99	--	5.8-6.2	0.0	54.7	0.0	2.7	0.6	0.0	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	10.2	29	--	5.9-6.1	0.0	58.3	0.0	0.3	5.1	0.3	0.1
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	3.5	55	1	5.9-6.1	0.0	57.7	0.0	0.6	2.0	0.1	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
0-1	3.8	53	--	6.0-6.0	0.0	60.5	0.0	0.2	1.2	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
0-1	-6.7	93	--	6.2-5.9	0.0	62.3	0.0	3.8	0.7	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	4.0	51	--	6.3-5.7	0.0	64.5	0.0	1.6	2.5	0.1	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
1-0	-12.6	118	--	6.4-5.7	0.0	66.3	0.0	4.3	0.3	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
1-0	5.7	45	--	6.4-5.6	0.0	67.4	0.0	0.3	3.0	0.1	0.1
1-1	-10.0	108	--	6.4-5.8	0.1	66.9	0.0	8.9	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	10.8	27	--	6.4-5.6	0.0	68.8	0.0	0.6	8.3	0.5	0.2
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	-6.1	92	--	6.5-5.7	0.0	66.1	14.9	7.7	1.0	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	5.1	46	--	6.5-5.5	0.0	69.7	0.0	0.4	3.3	0.1	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	7.5	36	--	6.5-5.5	0.0	69.1	0.0	3.9	6.1	0.2	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
1-0	4.8	49	--	6.7-5.4	0.0	70.3	0.0	2.8	4.4	0.1	0.0
1-0	-5.8	90	--	6.9-5.3	0.0	73.0	0.0	7.6	1.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	4.7	50	--	6.9-5.2	0.0	76.2	0.0	0.9	3.2	0.1	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
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	-3.8	82	--	7.0-5.2	0.0	75.7	0.0	7.7	2.3	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
1-0	6.9	39	--	7.1-5.0	0.0	78.1	0.0	3.6	5.9	0.2	0.1
1-0	15.3	18	--	7.1-5.0	0.0	79.4	0.0	1.8	17.4	1.9	0.7
0-1	-10.0	107	--	7.1-5.1	0.7	78.0	0.0	10.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
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	15.6	16	1	7.2-4.9	0.0	80.1	0.0	2.1	18.1	1.7	0.7
0-1	-7.6	101	--	7.2-5.1	0.6	78.2	0.0	15.2	0.2	0.0	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	15.5	17	1	7.3-4.7	0.0	84.2	0.0	1.8	20.2	2.3	0.8
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	-6.7	94	--	7.4-4.8	0.0	81.7	20.4	9.6	1.5	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	1.2	63	--	7.4-4.0	0.6	82.7	0.0	21.8	6.5	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	11.3	23	--	7.5-4.6	0.0	87.8	0.0	1.2	10.0	0.7	0.2
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	-4.6	86	--	7.6-4.9	0.0	81.9	0.0	26.5	1.9	0.0	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	-3.0	77	--	7.6-4.7	0.1	82.8	30.3	17.1	2.7	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	-5.2	88	--	7.7-4.6	0.3	83.9	24.9	12.8	2.0	0.0	0.0
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	-5.5	89	--	7.8-4.6	0.1	84.6	0.0	24.3	2.1	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
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	-11.0	112	--	7.9-4.3	0.3	88.2	0.0	6.4	1.0	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	8.8	32	--	8.1-4.0	0.9	88.7	0.0	6.9	10.9	0.4	0.2
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	-2.3	75	--	8.2-3.9	0.6	92.1	0.0	8.3	3.7	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
1-0	21.3	10	--	8.3-3.8	0.5	93.4	0.0	6.7	39.6	7.4	3.2
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	0.9	64	--	8.5-3.9	0.3	93.6	0.0	23.2	6.5	0.0	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
1-1	2.3	58	--	8.5-4.0	4.4	94.1	0.0	31.5	2.9	0.0	0.0
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	14.1	19	--	8.7-3.7	1.2	93.2	0.0	18.2	26.4	1.9	0.7
1-0	11.0	26	1	8.7-3.5	1.5	96.1	0.0	4.6	13.4	0.6	0.2
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	12.1	20	--	8.9-3.5	0.7	97.3	0.0	9.9	20.8	1.1	0.4
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	22.5	9	--	9.0-3.3	2.4	96.3	0.0	11.3	49.2	9.4	4.4
2-0	0.2	65	--	9.0-3.4	1.5	97.5	0.0	20.4	6.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	24.3	7	--	9.4-2.9	4.1	98.2	0.0	14.2	58.4	13.6	6.5
1-0	22.7	8	--	9.8-2.5	4.4	99.4	0.0	15.1	53.8	10.0	4.5
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	24.9	5	--	9.9-2.5	9.2	99.0	0.0	18.3	61.5	14.7	7.4
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
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	18.4	12	--	10.6-2.0	19.3	99.5	0.0	38.0	48.3	4.8	1.9
1-0	27.0	3	--	10.8-1.2	31.0	100.0	0.0	0.0	77.2	20.4	10.9
2-0	25.7	4	--	11.2-1.6	19.4	100.0	0.0	66.7	79.4	17.0	8.4

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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