ARGH 2016 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2016 season as of September 11, 2016. Teams included are the 128 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams.

The estimated home field advantage is .551, or about 2.74 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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Revised 9-11-16

This Week	Last Week	Team	2016 Record	Power Rating	SOS
1	1	Alabama	2 - 0	0.887	0
2	3	Tennessee	2 - 0	0.838	0
3	2	Clemson	2 - 0	0.832	0
4	5	Ohio St.	2 - 0	0.813	0
5	7	Stanford	1 - 0	0.767	0
6	9	Washington	2 - 0	0.765	0
7	4	Louisiana St.	1 - 1	0.763	0
8	8	Florida St.	2 - 0	0.753	0
9	10	Michigan	2 - 0	0.751	0
10	16	Florida	2 - 0	0.750	0
11	6	Oklahoma	1 - 1	0.749	0
12	15	Louisville	2 - 0	0.748	0
13	14	Houston	2 - 0	0.744	0
14	20	Wisconsin	2 - 0	0.742	0
15	25	Utah	2 - 0	0.723	0
16	24	Auburn	1 - 1	0.723	0
17	11	Georgia	2 - 0	0.718	0
18	17	Pittsburgh	2 - 0	0.714	0
19	22	Arkansas	2 - 0	0.710	0
20	18	Michigan St.	1 - 0	0.709	0
21	19	Iowa	2 - 0	0.700	0
22	21	Notre Dame	1 - 1	0.699	0
23	23	Southern California	1 - 1	0.699	0
24	28	Nebraska	2 - 0	0.697	0
25	29	Boise State	2 - 0	0.693	0
26	12	Oklahoma St.	1 - 1	0.689	0
27	35	Texas	2 - 0	0.687	0
28	31	Miami, Florida	2 - 0	0.680	0
29	13	Mississippi	1 - 1	0.680	0
30	37	Texas A&M	2 - 0	0.677	0
31	30	North Carolina	1 - 1	0.671	0
32	34	Baylor	2 - 0	0.667	0
33	32	West Virginia	2 - 0	0.661	0
34	27	UCLA	1 - 1	0.660	0
35	43	Appalachian St.	1 - 1	0.656	0
36	26	Brigham Young	1 - 1	0.649	0
37	39	Oregon	2 - 0	0.638	0
38	38	Mississippi St.	1 - 1	0.636	0
39	47	South Florida	2 - 0	0.630	0
40	41	Minnesota	2 - 0	0.628	0
41	46	Georgia Tech	2 - 0	0.624	0
42	33	Penn State	1 - 1	0.614	0
43	44	Western Michigan	2 - 0	0.613	0
44	42	Memphis	1 - 0	0.612	0
45	68	Central Michigan	2 - 0	0.610	0
46	54	Toledo	2 - 0	0.610	0
47	53	San Diego St.	2 - 0	0.607	0
48	50	Colorado	2 - 0	0.607	0
49	58	Cincinnati	2 - 0	0.598	0
50	40	Texas Christian	1 - 1	0.595	0
51	67	Georgia Southern	2 - 0	0.593	0
52	51	Temple	1 - 1	0.588	0
53	57	Arizona St.	2 - 0	0.587	0
54	71	Wake Forest	2 - 0	0.587	0
55	56	Western Kentucky	1 - 1	0.587	0
56	62	Indiana	2 - 0	0.581	0
57	45	Arizona	1 - 1	0.577	0
58	70	Maryland	2 - 0	0.566	0
59	55	Virginia Tech	1 - 1	0.565	0
60	72	Southern Mississippi	2 - 0	0.565	0
61	66	Boston College	1 - 1	0.559	0
62	69	Navy	2 - 0	0.557	0
63	65	Missouri	1 - 1	0.556	0
64	52	California	1 - 1	0.554	0
65	48	North Carolina St.	1 - 1	0.552	0
66	64	Marshall	1 - 0	0.547	0
67	61	Kansas St.	0 - 1	0.546	0
68	60	Duke	1 - 1	0.537	0
69	75	Air Force	2 - 0	0.531	0
70	59	Texas Tech	1 - 1	0.523	0
71	49	Washington St.	0 - 2	0.521	0
72	36	Northwestern	0 - 2	0.509	0
73	73	Utah St.	1 - 1	0.503	0
74	63	Syracuse	1 - 1	0.502	0
75	94	East Carolina	2 - 0	0.497	0
76	88	Vanderbilt	1 - 1	0.496	0
77	77	Illinois	1 - 1	0.490	0
78	76	Tulsa	1 - 1	0.490	0
79	95	Troy	1 - 1	0.480	0
80	82	Rutgers	1 - 1	0.474	0
81	98	Army	2 - 0	0.473	0
82	78	South Carolina	1 - 1	0.473	0
83	91	Louisiana Tech	1 - 1	0.468	0
84	74	Purdue	1 - 1	0.462	0
85	86	Middle Tennessee	1 - 1	0.455	0
86	84	Oregon St.	0 - 1	0.451	0
87	79	Connecticut	1 - 1	0.443	0
88	89	San Jose St.	1 - 1	0.440	0
89	85	Nevada	1 - 1	0.434	0
90	96	Old Dominion	1 - 1	0.429	0
91	80	New Mexico	1 - 1	0.429	0
92	87	Bowling Green	1 - 1	0.423	0
93	83	Kentucky	0 - 2	0.414	0
94	81	Northern Illinois	0 - 2	0.408	0
95	90	Colorado St.	1 - 1	0.402	0
96	92	Arkansas St.	0 - 2	0.397	0
97	104	Nevada-Las Vegas	1 - 1	0.389	0
98	97	Ball St.	1 - 1	0.380	0
99	103	Ohio	1 - 1	0.366	0
100	110	Fresno St.	1 - 1	0.360	0
101	106	South Alabama	1 - 1	0.355	0
102	105	Wyoming	1 - 1	0.353	0
103	93	Virginia	0 - 2	0.353	0
104	101	Southern Methodist	1 - 1	0.347	0
105	109	Akron	1 - 1	0.343	0
106	126	Tulane	1 - 1	0.341	0
107	102	Idaho	1 - 1	0.337	0
108	115	Central Florida	1 - 1	0.327	0
109	111	LA-Lafayette	1 - 1	0.323	0
110	108	Florida Atlantic	1 - 1	0.323	0
111	113	Kansas	1 - 1	0.320	0
112	117	Texas-El Paso	1 - 1	0.320	0
113	116	Eastern Michigan	1 - 1	0.317	0
114	121	Charlotte	1 - 1	0.310	0
115	118	Texas-San Antonio	1 - 1	0.302	0
116	99	Iowa St.	0 - 2	0.301	0
117	100	Kent	0 - 2	0.297	0
118	114	Rice	0 - 2	0.293	0
119	107	Florida International	0 - 2	0.288	0
120	120	Texas St.	1 - 0	0.277	0
121	123	LA-Monroe	1 - 1	0.272	0
122	124	Hawaii	1 - 2	0.267	0
123	122	Buffalo	0 - 1	0.265	0
124	127	New Mexico St.	1 - 1	0.264	0
125	112	Miami, Ohio	0 - 2	0.253	0
126	119	Georgia St.	0 - 2	0.250	0
127	128	North Texas	1 - 1	0.239	0
128	125	Massachusetts	0 - 2	0.229	0
129	129	Wild Card U.	7 - 68	0.158	0

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