ARGH 2013 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2013 season, after games of September 2, 2013. Teams included are the 125 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams, plus three teams that will be starting FBS play in 2014.

The estimated home field advantage is .581, or about 4.35 points for an average game. The power ratings represent the chance that the team in question has of beating an average FBS team without regard to location.

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This Week	Last Week	Team	2013 Record	Power Rating
1	1	Alabama	1 - 0	0.891
2	3	Notre Dame	1 - 0	0.824
3	2	Oregon	1 - 0	0.810
4	6	Stanford	0 - 0	0.804
5	7	Texas A&M	1 - 0	0.797
6	10	Florida	1 - 0	0.794
7	5	Texas	1 - 0	0.794
8	11	South Carolina	1 - 0	0.790
9	9	Ohio St.	1 - 0	0.785
10	4	Georgia	0 - 1	0.785
11	12	Louisiana St.	1 - 0	0.783
12	13	Oklahoma St.	1 - 0	0.775
13	15	Washington	1 - 0	0.760
14	14	Oklahoma	1 - 0	0.759
15	18	Clemson	1 - 0	0.742
16	22	Florida St.	1 - 0	0.738
17	17	Southern California	1 - 0	0.735
18	19	Northwestern	1 - 0	0.726
19	20	Michigan	1 - 0	0.723
20	8	Oregon St.	0 - 1	0.715
21	26	Mississippi	1 - 0	0.714
22	21	Michigan St.	1 - 0	0.714
23	23	Wisconsin	1 - 0	0.707
24	16	Texas Christian	0 - 1	0.706
25	34	Louisville	1 - 0	0.690
26	24	Nebraska	1 - 0	0.689
27	25	Missouri	1 - 0	0.685
28	28	Baylor	1 - 0	0.684
29	32	UCLA	1 - 0	0.683
30	31	Arizona St.	0 - 0	0.681
31	35	Penn State	1 - 0	0.680
32	29	Arizona	1 - 0	0.673
33	36	Miami, Florida	1 - 0	0.665
34	30	Vanderbilt	0 - 1	0.657
35	33	Virginia Tech	0 - 1	0.656
36	43	Bowling Green	1 - 0	0.637
37	42	Cincinnati	1 - 0	0.627
38	27	Kansas St.	0 - 1	0.624
39	46	Texas Tech	1 - 0	0.618
40	39	Georgia Tech	1 - 0	0.617
41	45	Fresno St.	1 - 0	0.612
42	37	Mississippi St.	0 - 1	0.607
43	38	Utah St.	0 - 1	0.600
44	47	Indiana	1 - 0	0.583
45	41	Boise State	0 - 1	0.580
46	44	North Carolina	0 - 1	0.579
47	57	Utah	1 - 0	0.578
48	40	Brigham Young	0 - 1	0.575
49	51	Auburn	1 - 0	0.574
50	48	Rutgers	0 - 1	0.571
51	50	San Jose St.	1 - 0	0.569
52	53	East Carolina	1 - 0	0.566
53	58	Minnesota	1 - 0	0.561
54	59	Central Florida	1 - 0	0.557
55	52	West Virginia	1 - 0	0.551
56	54	Rice	0 - 1	0.550
57	49	Tulsa	0 - 1	0.547
58	66	Northern Illinois	1 - 0	0.542
59	63	Tennessee	1 - 0	0.539
60	67	Arkansas	1 - 0	0.533
61	55	Pittsburgh	0 - 1	0.530
62	61	Toledo	0 - 1	0.525
63	60	LA-Monroe	0 - 1	0.523
64	64	Syracuse	0 - 1	0.512
65	70	Wake Forest	1 - 0	0.507
66	72	Arkansas St.	1 - 0	0.504
67	65	Iowa	0 - 1	0.501
68	68	Navy	0 - 0	0.500
69	74	Duke	1 - 0	0.497
70	73	Ball St.	1 - 0	0.495
71	56	Iowa St.	0 - 1	0.489
72	81	Virginia	1 - 0	0.486
73	76	Houston	1 - 0	0.483
74	80	Marshall	1 - 0	0.478
75	77	Middle Tennessee St.	1 - 0	0.477
76	71	Southern Methodist	0 - 1	0.472
77	69	LA-Lafayette	0 - 1	0.468
78	62	San Diego St.	0 - 1	0.467
79	75	Purdue	0 - 1	0.456
80	78	Washington St.	0 - 1	0.447
81	85	Texas-San Antonio	1 - 0	0.446
82	83	Buffalo	0 - 1	0.445
83	84	North Texas	1 - 0	0.439
84	82	California	0 - 1	0.438
85	91	North Carolina St.	1 - 0	0.423
86	87	Boston College	1 - 0	0.421
87	90	Maryland	1 - 0	0.417
88	88	Illinois	1 - 0	0.415
89	89	Kent	1 - 0	0.413
90	93	Western Kentucky	1 - 0	0.412
91	86	Ohio	0 - 1	0.406
92	79	Connecticut	0 - 1	0.405
93	96	Georgia Southern	1 - 0	0.384
94	92	AL-Birmingham	0 - 1	0.374
95	94	Kentucky	0 - 1	0.367
96	98	Wyoming	0 - 1	0.365
97	102	Texas St.	1 - 0	0.359
98	97	Temple	0 - 1	0.359
99	95	Nevada	0 - 1	0.354
100	100	Hawaii	0 - 1	0.344
101	104	Central Michigan	0 - 1	0.337
102	112	Colorado	1 - 0	0.333
103	109	Troy St.	1 - 0	0.330
104	105	Memphis	0 - 0	0.329
105	113	Tulane	1 - 0	0.327
106	99	Colorado St.	0 - 1	0.323
107	103	Miami, Ohio	0 - 1	0.322
108	106	Florida Atlantic	0 - 1	0.312
109	111	Western Michigan	0 - 1	0.305
110	114	Eastern Michigan	1 - 0	0.305
111	101	South Florida	0 - 1	0.304
112	108	Nevada-Las Vegas	0 - 1	0.302
113	115	Army	1 - 0	0.297
114	107	Louisiana Tech	0 - 1	0.296
115	116	Air Force	1 - 0	0.295
116	110	South Alabama	0 - 1	0.281
117	117	Kansas	0 - 0	0.246
118	118	Akron	0 - 1	0.240
119	122	Wild Card U.	9 - 23	0.227
120	124	Old Dominion	0 - 1	0.226
121	119	Texas-El Paso	0 - 0	0.221
122	121	New Mexico	0 - 1	0.218
123	120	Appalachian St.	0 - 1	0.206
124	123	Florida International	0 - 1	0.202
125	126	Massachusetts	0 - 1	0.188
126	125	Southern Mississippi	0 - 1	0.184
127	127	New Mexico St.	0 - 1	0.176
128	128	Idaho	0 - 1	0.137
129	129	Georgia St.	0 - 1	0.088

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