ARGH 2013 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2013 season, after games of October 5, 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 .582, or about 4.50 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	5 - 0	0.896
2	2	Oregon	5 - 0	0.870
3	3	Stanford	5 - 0	0.865
4	9	Florida St.	5 - 0	0.862
5	7	Clemson	5 - 0	0.853
6	5	Ohio St.	6 - 0	0.849
7	6	Oklahoma	5 - 0	0.842
8	10	Louisiana St.	5 - 1	0.828
9	17	Miami, Florida	5 - 0	0.828
10	8	Georgia	4 - 1	0.822
11	4	Washington	4 - 1	0.814
12	14	Florida	4 - 1	0.811
13	15	Missouri	5 - 0	0.811
14	13	Louisville	5 - 0	0.803
15	11	Virginia Tech	5 - 1	0.798
16	21	UCLA	4 - 0	0.784
17	16	Texas Tech	5 - 0	0.783
18	25	Michigan	5 - 0	0.774
19	22	Baylor	4 - 0	0.773
20	12	South Carolina	4 - 1	0.766
21	30	Auburn	4 - 1	0.747
22	18	Texas A&M	4 - 1	0.739
23	20	Oklahoma St.	4 - 1	0.727
24	32	East Carolina	4 - 1	0.719
25	26	Arizona	3 - 1	0.714
26	19	Georgia Tech	3 - 2	0.713
27	29	Central Florida	4 - 1	0.713
28	23	Arizona St.	3 - 2	0.705
29	51	Michigan St.	4 - 1	0.693
30	44	Brigham Young	3 - 2	0.688
31	46	Notre Dame	4 - 2	0.687
32	39	Fresno St.	5 - 0	0.680
33	24	Mississippi	3 - 2	0.678
34	53	Washington St.	4 - 2	0.672
35	35	Wisconsin	3 - 2	0.671
36	36	Houston	4 - 0	0.663
37	37	Southern California	3 - 2	0.661
38	28	Northwestern	4 - 1	0.659
39	48	Nebraska	4 - 1	0.657
40	55	Ball St.	5 - 1	0.657
41	45	Northern Illinois	5 - 0	0.656
42	34	Utah	3 - 2	0.653
43	27	Penn State	3 - 2	0.650
44	41	Bowling Green	5 - 1	0.647
45	61	Indiana	3 - 2	0.641
46	31	Utah St.	3 - 3	0.638
47	43	Oregon St.	4 - 1	0.636
48	33	Maryland	4 - 1	0.630
49	64	Ohio	4 - 1	0.630
50	42	Texas Christian	2 - 3	0.629
51	49	Rutgers	4 - 1	0.624
52	54	Pittsburgh	3 - 1	0.621
53	58	Tennessee	3 - 3	0.616
54	62	Navy	3 - 1	0.615
55	38	Iowa	4 - 2	0.613
56	40	Mississippi St.	2 - 3	0.611
57	50	Texas	3 - 2	0.603
58	63	Marshall	3 - 2	0.600
59	56	Boise State	3 - 2	0.591
60	74	Western Kentucky	4 - 2	0.575
61	47	Vanderbilt	3 - 3	0.559
62	65	Duke	3 - 2	0.557
63	57	Minnesota	4 - 2	0.552
64	60	Syracuse	2 - 3	0.548
65	75	Rice	3 - 2	0.539
66	59	Illinois	3 - 2	0.535
67	77	Toledo	3 - 3	0.529
68	67	North Carolina	1 - 4	0.525
69	66	North Texas	2 - 3	0.524
70	78	LA-Lafayette	3 - 2	0.523
71	68	Arkansas	3 - 3	0.519
72	52	Cincinnati	3 - 2	0.516
73	82	Boston College	3 - 2	0.512
74	71	Kansas St.	2 - 3	0.497
75	69	West Virginia	3 - 3	0.496
76	76	Wyoming	3 - 2	0.491
77	79	Middle Tennessee St.	3 - 3	0.482
78	73	North Carolina St.	3 - 2	0.481
79	80	Arkansas St.	2 - 3	0.476
80	88	Tulane	4 - 2	0.473
81	87	Buffalo	3 - 2	0.473
82	72	Virginia	2 - 3	0.472
83	100	Wake Forest	3 - 3	0.459
84	83	Old Dominion	4 - 2	0.457
85	70	Texas St.	3 - 2	0.453
86	86	San Jose St.	2 - 3	0.449
87	89	Kentucky	1 - 4	0.433
88	107	Florida Atlantic	2 - 4	0.430
89	97	Troy St.	3 - 3	0.427
90	93	Memphis	1 - 3	0.410
91	95	South Alabama	2 - 3	0.407
92	81	Iowa St.	1 - 3	0.406
93	84	Nevada	3 - 3	0.405
94	92	Nevada-Las Vegas	3 - 2	0.402
95	94	Colorado	2 - 2	0.386
96	90	California	1 - 4	0.378
97	98	Colorado St.	2 - 3	0.373
98	99	Southern Methodist	1 - 4	0.373
99	106	San Diego St.	2 - 3	0.371
100	96	Texas-San Antonio	2 - 4	0.365
101	85	Georgia Southern	3 - 2	0.363
102	101	LA-Monroe	2 - 4	0.359
103	91	Tulsa	1 - 4	0.358
104	105	Army	2 - 4	0.352
105	102	Kent	2 - 4	0.343
106	104	Kansas	2 - 2	0.336
107	103	AL-Birmingham	1 - 4	0.322
108	113	New Mexico	2 - 3	0.312
109	109	Purdue	1 - 4	0.291
110	108	Akron	1 - 5	0.276
111	114	Connecticut	0 - 4	0.262
112	116	Central Michigan	2 - 4	0.258
113	122	South Florida	1 - 4	0.256
114	118	Louisiana Tech	2 - 4	0.255
115	112	Air Force	1 - 5	0.253
116	110	Eastern Michigan	1 - 4	0.249
117	111	Hawaii	0 - 5	0.240
118	117	Temple	0 - 5	0.205
119	115	Texas-El Paso	1 - 4	0.198
120	121	Wild Card U.	20 - 87	0.197
121	120	Idaho	1 - 5	0.190
122	126	Florida International	1 - 4	0.182
123	124	Western Michigan	0 - 6	0.150
124	123	Appalachian St.	1 - 4	0.150
125	119	Miami, Ohio	0 - 5	0.139
126	125	Southern Mississippi	0 - 5	0.126
127	127	Massachusetts	0 - 5	0.117
128	128	New Mexico St.	0 - 6	0.099
129	129	Georgia St.	0 - 5	0.086

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