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College Football Power Ratings, Preseason

With the college football season just a couple of weeks ago, it it time to release the IAW power ratings.

We have switched things up slightly this year. In previous years, the PR number was equalized to where the top team was a 0, and then the teams below had a PR equal to what they would be underdogs by against the top team. This year, we are flipping that to more mirror what people are accustomed to–higher number means better team.

The power rating is still equalized relative to the top team, but now the numbers would be subtracted for a spread number. For example, Alabama would be a 7.5-point favorite against Georgia in a neutral site game. Adjust for home field advantage. There are plenty of HFA numbers out there, or for the simplest method, use an average of 3.

Kedon Slovis, USC football (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)

1	Alabama	100.0
2	Clemson	98.0
3	Oklahoma	96.7
4	Ohio St	95.0
5	Georgia	92.5
6	Iowa St	91.1
7	Texas A&M	90.2
8	Wisconsin	88.3
9	Oregon	88.2
10	Miami	88.2
11	North Carolina	88.0
12	Florida	87.5
13	Penn St	87.3
14	Texas	86.8
15	Cincinnati	86.2
16	Notre Dame	85.6
17	Iowa	85.1
18	Utah	85.0
19	LSU	84.8
20	USC	84.5
21	Arizona St	84.4
22	Washington	84.4
23	Auburn	83.9
24	Oklahoma St	83.7
25	TCU	83.7
26	Ole Miss	83.5
27	Indiana	82.8
28	Michigan	81.7
29	UCLA	81.0
30	West Virginia	80.1
31	Virginia Tech	79.9
32	UCF	79.8
33	Minnesota	79.7
34	Arkansas	79.2
35	Nebraska	79.0
36	Mississippi St	78.6
37	Pitt	78.6
38	Coastal Carolina	78.3
39	Appalachian St	78.2
40	Louisiana	78.1
41	NC State	78.0
42	Louisville	76.9
43	Boston College	76.6
44	Purdue	76.5
45	Boise St	76.3
46	Kentucky	76.2
47	Wake Forest	76.2
48	Liberty	76.0
49	Missouri	76.0
50	Virginia	75.9
51	BYU	75.4
52	Baylor	75.4
53	Maryland	75.4
54	Florida St	74.9
55	Northwestern	74.5
56	California	74.4
57	Washington St	74.4
58	Texas Tech	74.3
59	Colorado	74.2
60	Tulsa	73.8
61	Georgia Tech	73.7
62	Memphis	73.6
63	Tennessee	73.6
64	Michigan St	73.2
65	Tulane	73.1
66	SMU	73.1
67	Kansas St	73.0
68	Stanford	72.6
69	Houston	72.4
70	Oregon St	72.2
71	Toledo	71.9
72	Nevada	71.5
73	UAB	71.3
74	Ball St	70.7
75	San Jose St	70.2
76	Troy	70.0
77	Army	69.5
78	San Diego St	69.4
79	Wyoming	69.1
80	Illinois	68.9
81	Rutgers	68.3
82	Fresno St	68.3
83	Buffalo	68.3
84	Western Michigan	68.0
85	Marshall	67.8
86	Georgia St	67.6
87	Central Michigan	67.4
88	South Carolina	66.7
89	UTSA	66.0
90	FAU	65.7
91	Arizona	65.7
92	Air Force	65.6
93	East Carolina	65.4
94	Ohio	65.2
95	Georgia Southern	65.0
96	Syracuse	64.8
97	Duke	64.5
98	Hawaii	64.4
99	Colorado St	63.9
100	Eastern Michigan	63.5
101	Kent St	62.7
102	Vanderbilt	62.4
103	USF	61.9
104	Western Kentucky	61.8
105	Arkansas St	61.8
106	Miami OH	61.7
107	Navy	60.7
108	Rice	60.6
109	Southern Miss	60.2
110	Texas St	59.7
111	Middle Tennessee	59.4
112	North Texas	58.5
113	Northern Illinois	58.4
114	South Alabama	57.7
115	Louisiana Tech	57.2
116	Kansas	57.2
117	Utah St	56.5
118	New Mexico	56.4
119	FIU	56.3
120	Temple	56.1
121	Charlotte	55.9
122	UNLV	51.4
123	Old Dominion	51.0
124	UTEP	50.4
125	Louisiana Monroe	48.9
126	Akron	48.8
127	UConn	46.6
128	Bowling Green	44.7
129	UMass	43.4
130	New Mexico St	40.2

One thought on “College Football Power Ratings, Preseason”

Daniel Harris says:

August 13, 2021 at 11:26 am

Kentucky is too low.

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