College Football Power Index 2026


Team	CONF
Charlotte 49ers	American
UL Monroe Warhawks	Sun Belt
Sacramento State Hornets	MAC
Rutgers Scarlet Knights	Big Ten
Northern Illinois Huskies	Mountain West
UTEP Miners	Mountain West
Washington State Cougars	Pac-12
Akron Zips	MAC
Rice Owls	American
Ball State Cardinals	MAC
Boston College Eagles	ACC
Arkansas Razorbacks	SEC
Missouri State Bears	CUSA
Stanford Cardinal	ACC
San Diego State Aztecs	Pac-12
Southern Miss Golden Eagles	Sun Belt
Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors	Mountain West
Maryland Terrapins	Big Ten
Colorado State Rams	Pac-12
Utah State Aggies	Pac-12
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	ACC
Michigan State Spartans	Big Ten
Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders	CUSA
Kent State Golden Flashes	MAC
Colorado Buffaloes	Big 12
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers	Sun Belt
Sam Houston Bearkats	CUSA
Vanderbilt Commodores	SEC
Syracuse Orange	ACC
West Virginia Mountaineers	Big 12
Bowling Green Falcons	MAC
Old Dominion Monarchs	Sun Belt
Washington Huskies	Big Ten
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers	CUSA
Nevada Wolf Pack	Mountain West
Kennesaw State Owls	CUSA
Navy Midshipmen	American
UAB Blazers	American
New Mexico State Aggies	CUSA
Illinois Fighting Illini	Big Ten
Arizona State Sun Devils	Big 12
Texas State Bobcats	Pac-12
Wyoming Cowboys	Mountain West
California Golden Bears	ACC
Kansas Jayhawks	Big 12
TCU Horned Frogs	Big 12
Marshall Thundering Herd	Sun Belt
Arkansas State Red Wolves	Sun Belt
Purdue Boilermakers	Big Ten
Minnesota Golden Gophers	Big Ten
Temple Owls	American
Iowa State Cyclones	Big 12
Delaware Blue Hens	CUSA
San José State Spartans	Mountain West
Georgia Southern Eagles	Sun Belt
Texas A&M Aggies	SEC
South Carolina Gamecocks	SEC
NC State Wolfpack	ACC
Tulane Green Wave	American
Eastern Michigan Eagles	MAC
Florida State Seminoles	ACC
UConn Huskies	FBS Indep.
Auburn Tigers	SEC
UCF Knights	Big 12
Central Michigan Chippewas	MAC
Michigan Wolverines	Big Ten
App State Mountaineers	Sun Belt
Cincinnati Bearcats	Big 12
Tulsa Golden Hurricane	American
Buffalo Bulls	MAC
Miami (OH) RedHawks	MAC
Florida Gators	SEC
Troy Trojans	Sun Belt
Florida Atlantic Owls	American
Virginia Cavaliers	ACC
Kansas State Wildcats	Big 12
North Carolina Tar Heels	ACC
Massachusetts Minutemen	MAC
Army Black Knights	American
Oklahoma Sooners	SEC
Florida International Panthers	CUSA
Clemson Tigers	ACC
Virginia Tech Hokies	ACC
East Carolina Pirates	American
Louisville Cardinals	ACC
Fresno State Bulldogs	Pac-12
South Alabama Jaguars	Sun Belt
Penn State Nittany Lions	Big Ten
Duke Blue Devils	ACC
Mississippi State Bulldogs	SEC
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs	Sun Belt
Oregon State Beavers	Pac-12
Baylor Bears	Big 12
Oklahoma State Cowboys	Big 12
LSU Tigers	SEC
South Florida Bulls	American
Ole Miss Rebels	SEC
Missouri Tigers	SEC
Kentucky Wildcats	SEC
Oregon Ducks	Big Ten
Jacksonville State Gamecocks	CUSA
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns	Sun Belt
SMU Mustangs	ACC
UNLV Rebels	Mountain West
Ohio Bobcats	MAC
Northwestern Wildcats	Big Ten
Air Force Falcons	Mountain West
Georgia State Panthers	Sun Belt
Arizona Wildcats	Big 12
Wisconsin Badgers	Big Ten
Tennessee Volunteers	SEC
USC Trojans	Big Ten
Toledo Rockets	MAC
Pittsburgh Panthers	ACC
North Texas Mean Green	American
Iowa Hawkeyes	Big Ten
Nebraska Cornhuskers	Big Ten
UTSA Roadrunners	American
Western Michigan Broncos	MAC
Houston Cougars	Big 12
North Dakota State Bison	Mountain West
UCLA Bruins	Big Ten
BYU Cougars	Big 12
Texas Longhorns	SEC
Wake Forest Demon Deacons	ACC
Memphis Tigers	American
Ohio State Buckeyes	Big Ten
Boise State Broncos	Pac-12
Alabama Crimson Tide	SEC
Utah Utes	Big 12
New Mexico Lobos	Mountain West
Liberty Flames	CUSA
Texas Tech Red Raiders	Big 12
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	FBS Indep.
Indiana Hoosiers	Big Ten
James Madison Dukes	Sun Belt
Georgia Bulldogs	SEC
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%
0-6	-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
1-4	-5.0	87	2	2.3-9.7	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
0-5	-18.4	130	2	2.3-9.7	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-23.7	135	1	2.4-9.6	0.0	0.3	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	-21.0	132	1	2.6-9.4	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-13.4	118	--	2.6-9.4	0.0	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-21.6	133	1	3.2-8.8	0.1	2.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-5.3	91	3	3.2-8.8	0.0	2.1	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
1-4	-16.4	126	10	3.3-8.7	0.0	5.7	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-11.7	110	2	3.6-8.4	0.0	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-10.9	109	17	3.7-7.3	0.1	4.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-13.4	120	6	3.7-8.3	0.0	9.1	1.5	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-5	-12.8	114	1	3.8-8.2	0.2	5.3	0.0	0.0	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
2-3	-9.6	105	2	3.9-7.1	0.0	8.7	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-7.2	95	--	4.0-7.1	0.4	7.6	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	0.5	67	4	4.0-8.0	0.0	9.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	1.4	60	2	4.0-8.0	0.0	9.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-19.4	131	--	4.0-8.0	0.0	13.3	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-21.6	134	2	4.1-7.9	0.0	10.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-0.4	71	1	4.1-7.9	0.0	13.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-12.6	111	10	4.1-7.9	0.0	10.9	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-14.2	122	9	4.3-7.7	0.3	20.0	0.0	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	1.3	62	9	4.4-7.6	0.0	12.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	1.1	63	3	4.4-7.6	0.0	19.5	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	17.4	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-13.3	117	5	4.5-7.5	0.3	19.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	3.5	57	5	4.5-7.5	0.0	18.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-13.2	116	10	4.7-7.4	0.4	26.3	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-8.6	100	4	4.8-7.3	0.0	25.1	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
1-4	-10.4	108	3	4.8-7.3	0.9	30.2	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-6.2	93	4	4.8-7.2	0.0	27.7	0.0	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-14.6	124	1	4.8-7.2	0.0	22.9	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-13.4	119	9	4.8-7.2	0.8	29.8	0.0	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	4.5	53	1	4.8-7.2	0.0	26.9	0.0	0.0	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	30.4	0.0	1.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-16.8	127	2	4.9-7.1	0.0	28.5	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-1.8	75	7	4.9-7.1	0.0	28.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	4.9	52	1	4.9-7.1	0.2	34.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	6.6	47	1	5.0-7.0	0.1	34.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-3	-16.8	129	4	5.0-7.0	0.1	33.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-9.7	106	5	5.1-6.9	1.3	37.1	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	3.3	58	12	5.1-6.9	0.0	35.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-2	0.3	68	9	5.1-6.9	0.0	31.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-7.4	96	9	5.4-6.6	1.2	45.8	0.0	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	4.2	55	--	5.4-6.6	0.3	45.8	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
2-3	-12.6	112	5	5.5-6.6	0.6	48.2	0.0	1.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-12.7	113	1	5.6-7.4	0.0	51.1	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-4	-5.2	90	4	5.6-6.4	4.2	54.7	1.5	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	13.7	21	7	5.7-6.3	0.3	56.8	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
3-3	12.1	28	10	5.8-6.2	0.5	57.7	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0
3-3	0.9	66	8	5.9-6.1	0.6	61.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2-3	-3.3	81	3	5.9-6.2	1.1	61.2	0.0	2.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-3	-15.4	125	1	5.9-6.2	0.3	64.1	0.0	3.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	8.4	41	11	6.0-6.0	0.3	67.4	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-3	-5.5	92	4	6.0-6.0	0.7	68.7	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	1.2	0.0	0.0
3-3	5.4	50	4	6.1-5.9	1.6	68.5	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-3	-14.4	123	4	6.1-5.9	1.1	69.8	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	10.9	34	2	6.3-5.7	0.1	74.4	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0
3-2	-9.5	104	11	6.3-5.7	0.2	73.1	1.5	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	3.6	56	--	6.4-5.6	0.0	76.0	0.0	0.1	0.4	0.0	0.0
3-3	-5.1	89	4	6.5-5.5	3.0	80.4	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-12.8	115	12	6.6-5.5	4.1	80.2	0.0	3.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	-10.1	107	1	6.6-5.5	2.8	81.3	0.0	5.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-2	12.6	25	10	6.6-5.4	0.2	84.5	0.0	0.1	2.6	0.1	0.0
3-2	-6.2	94	5	6.6-5.5	0.4	78.9	16.7	4.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	-7.6	98	--	6.7-5.3	0.1	80.6	0.0	1.9	0.1	0.0	0.0
4-2	6.3	48	4	6.8-5.2	0.6	85.7	0.0	0.4	0.4	0.0	0.0
3-2	6.8	44	3	6.8-5.2	1.4	81.2	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-2	8.6	39	8	6.8-5.2	0.6	84.8	0.0	0.7	1.7	0.0	0.0
4-2	-13.6	121	1	6.9-5.1	0.5	89.1	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	-3.1	79	1	6.9-5.2	1.1	83.4	0.0	5.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	15.1	16	5	7.0-5.1	1.7	83.2	0.0	1.9	11.9	0.7	0.2
3-2	-9.0	101	10	7.0-5.3	0.8	85.2	0.0	8.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-2	6.8	45	5	7.0-5.0	1.4	87.6	0.0	0.6	1.9	0.0	0.0
4-2	6.6	46	3	7.1-4.9	0.3	93.4	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-2	-3.8	84	2	7.1-5.0	1.3	88.5	0.0	5.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
3-3	12.7	24	12	7.1-5.0	9.3	92.1	0.0	1.8	1.8	0.0	0.0
4-2	1.1	64	1	7.3-4.0	9.9	93.8	0.0	5.9	0.4	0.0	0.0
4-2	-7.4	97	3	7.4-4.9	2.4	92.2	26.1	6.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
3-3	12.5	26	6	7.5-4.5	15.3	96.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	8.0	43	6	7.5-4.5	0.2	94.4	0.0	0.5	1.7	0.0	0.0
4-1	12.2	27	--	7.6-4.4	0.2	96.9	0.0	0.4	13.6	0.4	0.1
3-2	-5.1	88	2	7.6-4.8	3.7	93.0	37.0	11.0	0.3	0.0	0.0
4-2	6.0	49	11	7.7-4.0	10.1	97.7	0.0	24.1	3.3	0.0	0.0
4-1	11.1	33	4	7.7-4.5	0.6	94.0	0.0	4.3	6.7	0.1	0.0
4-1	8.3	42	3	7.7-4.4	0.6	94.7	0.0	2.6	4.5	0.1	0.0
4-2	20.9	8	--	7.7-4.3	4.4	96.8	0.0	1.4	15.4	1.7	0.6
4-2	-2.7	78	1	7.8-4.3	4.3	97.8	0.0	1.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	15.7	15	7	7.8-4.3	0.5	97.4	0.0	1.4	20.1	1.2	0.4
5-1	15.1	17	1	7.9-4.2	0.4	98.4	0.0	1.0	15.1	0.7	0.3
5-1	11.7	30	4	7.9-4.2	0.7	98.1	0.0	0.7	20.6	0.6	0.2
3-2	19.5	9	--	7.9-4.2	4.2	97.0	0.0	3.9	9.6	0.9	0.4
4-2	-8.6	99	4	7.9-4.6	6.3	96.0	0.0	14.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-2	-4.7	86	2	8.1-4.1	7.8	98.2	17.9	5.6	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	8.4	40	--	8.1-4.1	0.4	98.3	0.0	2.7	5.0	0.1	0.0
4-2	-0.5	73	1	8.2-4.3	4.9	99.2	0.0	15.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
4-2	-9.3	103	6	8.2-4.2	8.4	98.5	0.0	16.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
4-1	14.0	20	3	8.3-3.8	0.8	99.1	0.0	0.7	13.7	0.6	0.2
4-1	-3.5	82	9	8.3-4.0	1.1	98.8	0.0	6.2	0.3	0.0	0.0
4-1	-3.5	83	2	8.3-3.8	2.1	97.5	13.9	8.3	0.7	0.0	0.0
5-1	10.4	35	7	8.3-3.7	1.6	99.3	0.0	1.9	6.4	0.1	0.0
4-1	10.3	37	4	8.4-3.8	2.6	98.6	0.0	2.3	11.9	0.3	0.1
5-1	17.2	13	3	8.4-3.7	2.4	99.3	0.0	1.5	23.5	1.7	0.6
6-1	14.6	19	--	8.4-3.6	0.9	100.0	0.0	1.2	17.1	0.6	0.2
4-2	-4.4	85	17	8.5-3.8	13.5	99.4	0.0	17.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
5-1	11.4	32	9	8.6-3.5	1.3	99.8	0.0	1.9	5.9	0.2	0.1
4-2	1.6	59	8	8.6-3.9	13.2	99.2	0.0	25.6	0.5	0.0	0.0
5-1	13.1	23	3	8.8-3.3	5.1	99.7	0.0	1.6	21.3	0.6	0.2
5-1	17.4	12	1	8.8-3.3	3.3	99.9	0.0	1.6	20.6	1.4	0.4
5-1	-1.2	74	1	9.0-3.5	6.0	99.7	0.0	18.3	3.9	0.0	0.0
4-2	-2.0	76	7	9.2-3.6	21.5	99.7	0.0	50.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
5-1	14.8	18	7	9.2-2.9	8.6	99.9	0.0	7.6	23.3	0.9	0.3
5-1	0.0	69	5	9.5-2.9	7.3	100.0	0.0	13.9	1.4	0.0	0.0
5-0	10.3	36	1	9.6-2.6	3.7	99.9	0.0	3.2	27.6	0.7	0.1
5-0	15.7	14	2	9.6-2.8	2.1	99.9	0.0	21.7	40.9	2.5	0.6
4-1	25.5	6	2	9.7-2.6	19.6	99.9	0.0	13.5	75.4	17.4	8.7
5-1	13.6	22	9	9.7-2.8	20.2	100.0	0.0	8.7	29.1	1.0	0.2
5-1	4.4	54	3	9.8-2.9	16.5	99.9	0.0	38.0	6.3	0.0	0.0
5-1	28.2	3	2	10.0-2.6	20.4	100.0	0.0	44.5	76.5	22.4	12.2
5-1	11.9	29	1	10.1-1.9	53.5	100.0	0.0	68.0	46.6	0.7	0.2
5-1	26.6	5	1	10.2-2.3	32.1	100.0	0.0	23.9	82.3	20.0	10.0
5-0	18.8	10	2	10.6-1.9	15.7	100.0	0.0	28.0	51.5	4.9	1.7
4-1	9.0	38	1	10.6-2.2	38.1	100.0	0.0	63.9	11.0	0.1	0.0
5-1	1.0	65	8	10.7-2.2	35.9	100.0	0.0	68.1	1.3	0.0	0.0
5-0	18.6	11	--	11.0-1.6	23.2	100.0	0.0	33.6	61.7	5.8	2.2
6-0	29.5	1	2	11.3-0.7	44.7	100.0	0.0	0.0	93.3	32.1	18.4
6-0	25.5	7	--	11.4-1.4	28.3	100.0	0.0	41.1	88.1	20.8	9.4
6-0	5.1	51	2	11.5-1.3	32.9	100.0	82.6	62.0	27.1	0.1	0.0
6-0	28.7	2	--	11.8-1.1	46.4	100.0	0.0	54.3	95.7	32.2	17.8
5-0	27.7	4	1	11.8-1.2	24.2	100.0	0.0	82.6	94.7	26.3	14.1

Last Updated: October 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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