College Football Power Index 2026


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

	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	30.3	1	1	10.2-2.4	10.7	99.3	0.0	34.9	78.8	29.3	17.8
1-0	30.0	2	1	10.4-2.2	10.0	99.8	0.0	44.3	77.8	28.9	17.6
1-0	27.0	3	--	10.8-1.2	31.4	100.0	0.0	0.0	76.7	20.0	10.6
1-0	25.4	4	3	11.2-1.7	18.5	99.9	0.0	65.1	78.0	16.4	8.1
1-0	24.9	5	--	9.9-2.5	9.3	99.0	0.0	18.2	61.4	14.7	7.2
1-0	24.1	7	2	9.4-2.9	3.9	98.2	0.0	14.0	58.1	13.3	6.6
1-0	24.3	6	--	10.4-2.0	12.6	99.9	0.0	21.4	58.5	13.1	6.8
1-0	22.5	9	1	9.0-3.3	2.4	96.2	0.0	11.2	49.4	10.0	4.6
1-0	22.7	8	4	9.8-2.5	4.4	99.4	0.0	15.1	53.7	9.8	4.5
1-0	21.2	10	1	8.3-3.9	0.5	93.3	0.0	6.8	39.7	7.3	3.3
1-0	19.2	11	1	7.7-4.4	0.2	85.7	0.0	5.1	31.0	4.9	2.0
1-0	18.4	12	2	10.5-2.0	19.2	99.5	0.0	38.2	48.4	4.7	1.8
1-0	17.2	14	3	9.8-2.4	9.2	99.1	0.0	8.7	31.9	3.3	1.2
2-0	17.5	13	--	8.5-3.7	0.3	97.1	0.0	4.4	26.6	3.0	1.2
1-0	15.5	16	2	7.3-4.7	0.0	84.3	0.0	1.9	20.3	2.3	0.9
1-0	15.8	15	8	7.4-4.7	0.1	83.3	0.0	2.4	20.0	2.3	0.7
1-0	15.5	17	1	7.2-4.9	0.0	80.1	0.0	2.0	17.8	2.0	0.8
1-0	15.3	18	2	7.1-4.9	0.0	79.7	0.0	2.0	17.7	2.0	0.7
1-0	14.1	19	1	8.7-3.7	1.2	93.1	0.0	18.1	25.8	1.7	0.6
1-0	12.1	20	4	8.8-3.5	0.7	96.8	0.0	9.7	21.0	1.2	0.3
1-0	11.8	21	6	7.0-5.1	0.0	80.1	0.0	1.4	10.4	0.8	0.3
1-0	11.5	22	14	8.3-3.9	0.4	92.6	0.0	4.8	13.2	0.8	0.3
1-0	11.2	24	7	8.6-3.7	1.5	93.1	0.0	10.5	16.4	0.8	0.2
1-0	11.1	25	7	8.7-3.5	1.6	95.4	0.0	5.7	14.8	0.7	0.2
1-0	10.8	27	5	6.4-5.6	0.0	68.0	0.0	0.5	8.1	0.6	0.2
1-0	11.3	23	7	7.5-4.5	0.0	88.1	0.0	1.2	9.9	0.6	0.2
1-0	11.0	26	1	7.9-4.2	0.2	89.5	0.0	1.6	10.7	0.6	0.2
0-1	7.8	34	16	8.5-3.2	14.7	93.4	0.0	55.4	17.0	0.4	0.1
1-0	9.3	31	2	7.6-4.5	0.1	85.0	0.0	3.0	8.1	0.4	0.1
1-0	9.5	30	4	6.9-5.1	0.0	77.9	0.0	0.8	7.0	0.4	0.1
0-1	10.8	28	1	7.5-4.7	1.5	83.9	0.0	5.8	8.8	0.3	0.1
1-0	10.2	29	8	5.9-6.1	0.0	58.3	0.0	0.4	5.9	0.3	0.1
1-0	8.6	33	16	5.4-6.6	0.0	45.6	0.0	0.2	3.7	0.3	0.1
1-0	8.8	32	9	8.1-4.0	0.9	88.7	0.0	6.8	10.7	0.3	0.1
1-0	7.5	36	8	6.5-5.5	0.0	69.5	0.0	3.7	5.9	0.2	0.1
1-0	6.3	44	2	6.4-5.6	0.0	68.0	0.0	1.2	4.2	0.2	0.0
1-0	7.8	35	6	5.9-6.2	0.0	56.3	0.0	0.3	4.0	0.2	0.0
1-0	6.9	39	5	7.1-5.0	0.0	78.3	0.0	3.5	5.9	0.1	0.0
1-0	5.1	46	18	6.5-5.5	0.0	69.9	0.0	0.3	2.9	0.1	0.0
1-0	4.9	47	2	6.5-5.6	0.0	66.6	0.0	2.2	3.9	0.1	0.0
1-1	7.3	37	9	5.8-6.2	0.0	55.8	0.0	0.3	1.3	0.1	0.0
1-0	6.5	40	--	4.7-7.3	0.0	30.2	0.0	0.1	1.9	0.1	0.0
1-0	4.7	50	2	6.9-5.1	0.0	76.2	0.0	1.0	3.3	0.1	0.0
1-0	3.8	52	1	6.5-5.5	0.0	69.8	0.0	0.6	2.3	0.1	0.0
1-0	3.5	54	16	5.9-6.1	0.0	57.8	0.0	0.6	2.0	0.1	0.0
0-1	6.4	42	23	6.0-6.0	0.0	59.9	0.0	1.5	3.1	0.1	0.0
2-0	2.1	61	13	8.9-3.4	1.2	97.2	0.0	20.8	11.5	0.1	0.0
0-1	7.1	38	1	6.2-5.8	0.1	64.1	0.0	3.5	4.2	0.1	0.0
1-0	6.5	41	6	7.2-4.9	0.1	80.7	0.0	3.0	5.4	0.1	0.0
1-0	5.7	45	6	6.4-5.7	0.0	66.3	0.0	0.3	3.0	0.1	0.0
1-0	4.8	49	8	6.8-5.3	0.0	71.2	0.0	2.8	4.4	0.1	0.0
1-0	6.3	43	3	7.0-5.0	0.0	77.6	0.0	2.8	5.0	0.1	0.0
1-0	4.0	51	4	6.3-5.7	0.0	63.8	0.0	1.8	2.9	0.1	0.0
2-0	0.2	65	35	9.0-3.4	1.5	97.4	0.0	20.6	6.3	0.1	0.0
0-1	4.9	48	10	5.7-6.3	0.0	53.0	0.0	2.0	2.4	0.1	0.0
0-1	-14.5	122	6	4.2-7.8	0.0	22.5	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-9.6	106	6	5.9-6.2	0.0	56.9	10.2	4.4	0.4	0.0	0.0
1-0	2.3	60	13	3.6-8.4	0.0	12.8	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
1-1	-18.4	134	23	4.4-7.6	0.0	25.9	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	1.2	63	4	7.4-4.1	0.6	81.9	0.0	21.3	6.5	0.0	0.0
1-1	-10.1	109	15	6.4-6.7	0.0	66.3	0.0	2.5	0.2	0.0	0.0
1-1	-4.7	87	7	4.1-7.9	0.0	16.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-3.0	78	16	4.1-8.0	0.0	20.2	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-7.9	102	16	5.1-6.1	0.0	38.5	0.0	3.6	0.5	0.0	0.0
1-0	-7.5	100	14	5.7-6.3	0.0	52.3	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
1-0	-4.6	86	5	7.6-4.9	0.0	82.4	0.0	26.3	2.0	0.0	0.0
1-1	-10.0	108	7	6.4-5.8	0.1	66.4	0.0	8.8	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-2.3	75	2	8.3-3.9	0.6	92.0	0.0	8.6	3.9	0.0	0.0
0-1	3.5	55	7	5.0-7.1	0.0	38.4	0.0	0.6	1.0	0.0	0.0
0-2	-6.9	95	19	5.5-6.6	0.1	50.9	0.0	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-0.8	68	4	5.1-6.9	0.0	39.5	0.0	0.5	0.8	0.0	0.0
1-0	2.5	57	3	5.3-6.7	0.0	44.2	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-11.6	114	28	4.9-7.3	0.0	35.9	0.0	7.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-4.6	85	7	3.3-8.8	0.0	8.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-11.0	112	25	7.9-4.3	0.3	88.7	0.0	7.2	1.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	2.9	56	5	5.6-6.4	0.0	52.4	0.0	0.1	1.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	1.3	62	3	5.3-6.7	0.0	44.4	0.0	0.1	0.9	0.0	0.0
1-0	2.3	59	4	5.5-6.6	0.0	47.6	0.0	0.1	1.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-3.2	80	12	7.1-5.0	0.5	79.2	0.0	8.5	2.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-1.1	71	20	5.1-6.9	0.0	40.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.0
0-1	-6.9	96	29	2.8-9.2	0.0	4.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-1	-13.0	120	9	5.4-6.8	0.0	45.7	0.0	5.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	0.9	64	17	8.5-3.9	0.3	93.6	0.0	22.8	6.4	0.0	0.0
0-1	-14.8	123	--	4.2-7.9	0.0	22.2	0.0	2.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-12.2	117	23	5.7-6.4	0.0	54.3	0.0	5.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-9.9	107	10	7.2-5.1	0.7	78.4	0.0	9.7	0.3	0.0	0.0
0-1	-1.6	72	18	4.0-8.0	0.0	20.0	0.0	0.3	0.4	0.0	0.0
1-0	-3.4	81	24	7.9-4.3	0.2	88.0	0.0	8.3	3.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-7.2	98	--	4.6-6.5	0.0	30.9	0.0	4.5	0.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	-7.3	99	3	5.8-6.2	0.0	55.2	0.0	2.6	0.5	0.0	0.0
1-0	-12.1	116	6	4.2-7.8	0.0	24.7	0.0	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-6.7	93	3	6.1-6.0	0.0	61.6	0.0	3.7	0.7	0.0	0.0
1-0	-2.5	76	1	8.2-4.1	0.5	89.8	28.8	16.8	3.6	0.0	0.0
0-1	-4.3	84	1	5.0-6.2	0.0	36.9	0.0	6.7	0.6	0.0	0.0
0-1	3.8	53	10	6.0-6.0	0.0	61.0	0.0	0.3	1.2	0.0	0.0
0-1	-13.5	121	17	5.3-6.8	0.0	45.0	5.1	1.8	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-0.8	69	3	5.3-6.7	0.0	43.0	0.0	0.4	0.7	0.0	0.0
0-1	-7.0	97	20	5.1-6.1	0.0	41.0	0.0	4.1	0.6	0.0	0.0
1-0	-8.0	104	1	6.0-6.1	0.0	57.9	13.6	6.6	0.7	0.0	0.0
1-0	-6.1	92	7	6.5-5.7	0.0	65.9	15.5	8.0	1.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-6.7	94	5	7.4-4.8	0.0	81.7	20.4	9.5	1.4	0.0	0.0
0-1	-11.1	113	4	5.2-6.9	0.0	41.6	6.9	2.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-7.9	103	19	4.7-6.4	0.0	34.3	0.0	3.0	0.6	0.0	0.0
0-1	-10.4	110	18	3.1-7.9	0.0	8.7	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-5.5	89	17	7.8-4.6	0.1	84.4	0.0	24.0	1.8	0.0	0.0
1-0	-1.9	74	15	7.4-4.8	0.2	80.0	0.0	10.4	3.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-5.8	90	3	6.8-5.3	0.0	72.6	0.0	7.1	1.3	0.0	0.0
0-1	-16.8	129	4	4.4-7.7	0.0	27.0	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-5.2	88	21	7.7-4.5	0.3	84.3	25.2	12.8	1.8	0.0	0.0
0-1	-10.7	111	4	5.3-6.8	0.0	44.9	8.1	3.4	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-19.0	135	1	4.2-7.9	0.0	23.5	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-12.6	118	5	6.4-5.7	0.0	66.2	0.0	4.3	0.3	0.0	0.0
0-1	-17.1	130	10	4.7-7.3	0.0	33.8	0.0	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-1	-15.5	126	5	5.0-7.1	0.0	34.9	0.0	2.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-15.3	124	9	4.0-8.0	0.0	19.8	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-12.1	115	4	5.7-6.4	0.0	52.4	0.0	5.2	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-12.6	119	8	5.2-6.9	0.0	42.1	4.9	2.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
0-1	-23.6	137	2	2.9-9.1	0.0	6.9	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-7.6	101	5	7.2-5.1	0.6	78.3	0.0	15.7	0.3	0.0	0.0
1-0	-6.0	91	17	6.4-5.8	0.0	66.6	19.8	9.6	1.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-15.4	125	5	4.8-7.3	0.0	34.4	0.0	2.7	0.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-0.6	67	2	7.7-4.7	0.1	84.2	0.0	16.8	4.4	0.0	0.0
0-1	-17.2	131	5	2.2-9.8	0.0	3.7	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-24.3	138	--	2.4-9.6	0.0	4.1	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-1	2.3	58	--	8.6-4.0	4.4	94.4	0.0	32.5	3.1	0.0	0.0
1-0	-3.1	79	37	7.4-4.9	0.1	81.3	0.0	11.6	2.6	0.0	0.0
0-1	-17.7	133	8	3.2-8.9	0.0	10.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-1.6	73	2	3.9-8.1	0.0	18.6	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0
0-1	-16.6	128	8	4.1-8.0	0.0	22.9	0.0	2.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-3.0	77	10	7.6-4.7	0.1	82.7	30.7	17.4	2.8	0.0	0.0
0-1	-15.9	127	17	4.4-7.7	0.0	27.3	0.0	2.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-0	-3.8	82	6	7.0-5.2	0.0	75.6	0.0	7.7	2.2	0.0	0.0
0-1	-19.1	136	4	3.3-8.7	0.0	9.4	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-4.0	83	4	7.9-4.5	2.2	87.4	0.0	24.6	0.7	0.0	0.0
1-0	-9.0	105	10	6.4-5.7	0.0	65.3	10.5	4.8	0.6	0.0	0.0
0-1	-0.5	66	10	6.7-5.5	0.2	70.3	0.0	11.7	1.6	0.0	0.0
0-1	-0.9	70	12	8.7-3.9	4.5	94.6	0.0	39.7	3.0	0.0	0.0
0-1	-17.6	132	11	3.8-8.2	0.0	17.6	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0

Last Updated: September 8, 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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