College Football Power Index 2026


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

	POWER INDEX			PROJECTIONS
W-L	FPI	RK	TREND	PROJ W-L	WIN OUT%	6WINS%	WIN DIV%	WIN CONF%	PLAYOFF%	MAKE NC%	WIN NC%
0-6	-25.2	137	2	0.7-11.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-5	-24.9	136	1	1.1-10.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-29.5	138	--	2.0-10.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-9.2	102	--	2.5-8.5	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-23.7	135	1	2.4-9.6	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-5.0	87	2	2.3-9.7	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-5	-18.4	130	2	2.3-9.7	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-21.0	132	1	2.6-9.4	0.0	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-13.4	118	--	2.6-9.4	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-11.7	110	2	3.6-8.4	0.0	1.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	1.3	61	4	3.3-8.7	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-5.3	91	3	3.2-8.8	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-21.6	133	1	3.2-8.8	0.1	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-10.9	109	17	3.7-7.3	0.1	4.2	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-12.8	114	1	3.7-8.3	0.2	5.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-16.4	126	10	3.4-8.7	0.0	5.9	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-2.4	77	2	3.8-8.2	0.0	6.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-7.2	95	--	3.9-7.1	0.4	7.7	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-9.6	105	2	3.9-7.1	0.0	8.7	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	1.4	60	2	4.0-8.0	0.0	9.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-13.4	120	6	3.7-8.3	0.0	9.2	1.4	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	0.5	67	4	4.0-8.1	0.0	9.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-21.6	134	2	4.0-8.0	0.0	10.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-12.6	111	10	4.1-7.9	0.0	10.7	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	1.3	62	9	4.4-7.6	0.0	12.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-19.4	131	--	4.0-8.0	0.0	12.9	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-0.4	71	1	4.1-7.9	0.0	14.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-0.4	72	11	4.4-7.6	0.0	14.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-16.8	128	2	4.5-7.6	0.1	17.5	0.0	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	3.5	57	5	4.5-7.5	0.0	18.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-14.2	122	9	4.3-7.7	0.3	19.6	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-13.3	117	5	4.5-7.5	0.3	19.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	1.1	63	3	4.4-7.6	0.0	19.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-14.6	124	1	4.8-7.2	0.0	23.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-8.6	100	4	4.8-7.3	0.0	25.3	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-13.2	116	10	4.7-7.4	0.4	26.2	0.0	1.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	4.5	53	1	4.8-7.2	0.0	26.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-6.2	93	4	4.8-7.2	0.0	27.2	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-1.8	75	7	4.9-7.1	0.0	27.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-16.8	127	2	4.9-7.1	0.0	27.8	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-13.4	119	9	4.8-7.3	0.8	28.8	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	-0.3	70	1	4.9-7.1	0.0	29.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-3.1	80	4	4.9-6.1	0.3	30.3	0.0	1.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-10.4	108	3	4.8-7.3	0.9	30.6	0.0	2.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-2	0.3	68	9	5.1-6.9	0.0	31.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-16.8	129	4	5.0-7.0	0.1	33.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	6.6	47	1	5.0-7.0	0.1	34.3	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
2-3	4.9	52	1	5.0-7.0	0.2	34.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	3.3	58	12	5.1-6.9	0.0	35.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-9.7	106	5	5.1-6.9	1.3	36.9	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	4.2	55	--	5.4-6.6	0.3	44.7	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
2-4	-7.4	96	9	5.4-6.7	1.2	45.3	0.0	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-12.6	112	5	5.5-6.6	0.6	48.9	0.0	2.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-12.7	113	1	5.6-7.4	0.0	51.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-5.2	90	4	5.6-6.4	4.2	55.4	1.7	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	13.7	21	7	5.7-6.3	0.3	57.5	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
3-3	12.1	28	10	5.8-6.2	0.5	57.8	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
2-3	-3.3	81	3	5.9-6.1	1.1	61.1	0.0	2.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	0.9	66	8	5.9-6.1	0.6	61.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-15.4	125	1	5.9-6.2	0.3	63.9	0.0	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	8.4	41	11	6.0-6.0	0.3	67.5	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-3	-5.5	92	4	6.0-6.0	0.7	68.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	11.4	31	7	6.1-5.9	0.0	68.5	0.0	0.0	1.1	0.0	0.0
3-3	-14.4	123	4	6.1-5.9	1.1	69.2	0.0	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	5.4	50	4	6.2-5.9	1.6	69.4	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-2	-9.5	104	11	6.3-5.7	0.2	73.2	1.6	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	10.9	34	2	6.2-5.8	0.1	73.5	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0
4-1	3.6	56	--	6.4-5.6	0.0	76.1	0.0	0.1	0.6	0.0	0.0
3-2	-6.2	94	5	6.6-5.5	0.4	78.9	16.6	5.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-12.8	115	12	6.6-5.5	4.1	80.5	0.0	3.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-10.1	107	1	6.6-5.5	2.8	80.7	0.0	5.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-5.1	89	4	6.5-5.5	3.0	80.9	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	-7.6	98	--	6.8-5.3	0.1	81.0	0.0	1.7	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-2	6.8	44	3	6.8-5.2	1.4	81.4	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-2	-3.1	79	1	6.9-5.2	1.1	82.9	0.0	5.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	15.1	16	5	7.0-5.1	1.7	83.9	0.0	1.9	12.2	0.7	0.2
4-2	12.6	25	10	6.6-5.4	0.2	84.7	0.0	0.1	2.6	0.1	0.0
3-2	8.6	39	8	6.9-5.2	0.6	84.8	0.0	0.8	1.7	0.0	0.0
3-2	-9.0	101	10	7.0-5.3	0.8	85.5	0.0	8.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-2	6.3	48	4	6.8-5.2	0.6	85.8	0.0	0.4	0.5	0.0	0.0
3-2	6.8	45	5	7.0-5.0	1.4	87.7	0.0	0.6	1.9	0.0	0.0
3-2	-3.8	84	2	7.1-5.0	1.3	88.8	0.0	5.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-2	-13.6	121	1	6.9-5.1	0.5	89.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	12.7	24	12	7.1-5.0	9.3	91.6	0.0	1.9	1.9	0.1	0.0
4-2	-7.4	97	3	7.4-4.9	2.4	91.7	26.7	6.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	-5.1	88	2	7.6-4.8	3.7	93.4	37.0	10.9	0.2	0.0	0.0
4-2	6.6	46	3	7.1-4.9	0.3	93.5	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
4-2	1.1	64	1	7.3-4.0	9.9	93.7	0.0	6.5	0.3	0.0	0.0
4-1	11.1	33	4	7.6-4.5	0.6	93.9	0.0	4.2	6.5	0.2	0.1
4-1	8.0	43	6	7.5-4.5	0.2	94.2	0.0	0.5	1.7	0.0	0.0
4-1	8.3	42	3	7.7-4.4	0.6	94.4	0.0	2.5	4.5	0.1	0.0
4-2	-8.6	99	4	7.9-4.6	6.3	96.0	0.0	14.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	12.5	26	6	7.5-4.5	15.3	96.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	12.2	27	--	7.6-4.5	0.2	96.8	0.0	0.3	13.5	0.6	0.2
4-2	20.9	8	--	7.7-4.3	4.4	97.0	0.0	1.6	16.1	1.8	0.7
3-2	19.5	9	--	7.9-4.2	4.2	97.2	0.0	3.8	9.8	0.9	0.4
4-1	15.7	15	7	7.8-4.3	0.5	97.3	0.0	1.4	19.9	1.2	0.3
4-2	6.0	49	11	7.7-4.0	10.1	97.5	0.0	24.0	3.0	0.0	0.0
4-2	-2.7	78	1	7.8-4.3	4.3	97.6	0.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	-3.5	83	2	8.3-3.8	2.1	97.8	13.7	8.1	0.7	0.0	0.0
5-1	11.7	30	4	7.9-4.2	0.7	97.9	0.0	0.7	20.7	0.6	0.1
4-2	-4.7	86	2	8.1-4.1	7.8	98.2	17.5	5.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	8.4	40	--	8.1-4.1	0.4	98.3	0.0	2.4	4.7	0.1	0.0
5-1	15.1	17	1	7.9-4.2	0.4	98.4	0.0	1.1	15.7	0.9	0.2
4-2	-9.3	103	6	8.3-4.2	8.4	98.6	0.0	16.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	10.3	37	4	8.4-3.8	2.6	98.7	0.0	2.3	11.6	0.3	0.1
4-1	-3.5	82	9	8.3-3.9	1.1	98.8	0.0	5.9	0.3	0.0	0.0
4-1	14.0	20	3	8.3-3.8	0.8	99.1	0.0	0.7	14.3	0.6	0.2
4-2	-0.5	73	1	8.2-4.3	4.9	99.1	0.0	15.3	0.1	0.0	0.0
4-2	1.6	59	8	8.6-3.9	13.2	99.2	0.0	25.4	0.5	0.0	0.0
5-1	10.4	35	7	8.3-3.7	1.6	99.3	0.0	2.1	6.4	0.1	0.0
5-1	17.2	13	3	8.4-3.7	2.4	99.3	0.0	1.7	23.9	1.6	0.5
4-2	-4.4	85	17	8.6-3.8	13.5	99.4	0.0	18.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-1	13.1	23	3	8.8-3.3	5.1	99.6	0.0	1.4	20.2	0.7	0.2
5-1	-1.2	74	1	8.9-3.5	6.0	99.6	0.0	17.7	3.7	0.0	0.0
4-2	-2.0	76	7	9.1-3.6	21.5	99.6	0.0	49.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-1	11.4	32	9	8.6-3.5	1.3	99.7	0.0	1.8	5.7	0.1	0.0
5-0	10.3	36	1	9.6-2.6	3.7	99.9	0.0	3.2	28.6	0.8	0.1
5-1	17.4	12	1	8.8-3.3	3.3	99.9	0.0	1.6	20.7	1.5	0.5
5-1	4.4	54	3	9.8-2.8	16.5	99.9	0.0	39.4	6.5	0.0	0.0
5-1	14.8	18	7	9.2-2.9	8.6	99.9	0.0	8.0	23.2	0.9	0.3
4-1	25.5	6	2	9.7-2.6	19.6	99.9	0.0	13.8	74.8	17.0	8.6
5-0	15.7	14	2	9.6-2.8	2.1	99.9	0.0	21.5	40.8	2.4	0.9
6-1	14.6	19	--	8.4-3.6	0.9	100.0	0.0	1.3	16.6	0.7	0.2
6-0	28.7	2	--	11.8-1.1	46.4	100.0	0.0	54.1	95.6	32.8	18.2
5-1	11.9	29	1	10.1-1.9	53.5	100.0	0.0	67.4	46.8	0.7	0.1
6-0	25.5	7	--	11.4-1.4	28.3	100.0	0.0	40.8	87.4	20.5	9.6
6-0	29.5	1	2	11.3-0.7	44.7	100.0	0.0	0.0	93.4	31.8	18.0
5-1	13.6	22	9	9.7-2.8	20.2	100.0	0.0	8.5	29.0	0.9	0.2
4-1	9.0	38	1	10.6-2.2	38.1	100.0	0.0	63.5	11.1	0.1	0.0
5-1	28.2	3	2	10.1-2.6	20.4	100.0	0.0	44.8	76.9	22.5	12.3
5-0	18.8	10	2	10.6-1.9	15.7	100.0	0.0	27.7	51.6	4.4	1.6
6-0	5.1	51	2	11.5-1.3	32.9	100.0	82.5	62.4	27.3	0.1	0.0
5-1	26.6	5	1	10.2-2.3	32.1	100.0	0.0	23.3	82.1	20.0	9.8
5-1	1.0	65	8	10.7-2.2	35.9	100.0	0.0	68.9	1.4	0.0	0.0
5-0	27.7	4	1	11.8-1.2	24.2	100.0	0.0	82.9	94.6	26.6	14.4
5-1	0.0	69	5	9.5-2.9	7.3	100.0	0.0	14.4	1.5	0.0	0.0
5-0	18.6	11	--	11.0-1.6	23.2	100.0	0.0	33.6	61.4	5.6	2.0

Last Updated: October 12, 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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