ARGH 2012 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2012 season after games of October 6. Teams included are the 124 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams, plus one team that will be starting FBS play in 2013.

The estimated home field advantage is .570, or about 3.90 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	2012 Record	Power Rating
1	1	Alabama	5 - 0	0.917
2	2	South Carolina	6 - 0	0.915
3	3	Notre Dame	5 - 0	0.912
4	4	Florida	5 - 0	0.893
5	8	Ohio St.	6 - 0	0.866
6	9	Oregon	6 - 0	0.864
7	11	Kansas St.	5 - 0	0.826
8	6	Georgia	5 - 1	0.813
9	5	Louisiana St.	5 - 1	0.806
10	12	Stanford	4 - 1	0.804
11	15	Southern California	4 - 1	0.799
12	17	West Virginia	5 - 0	0.798
13	7	Florida St.	5 - 1	0.795
14	16	Oklahoma	3 - 1	0.795
15	20	Texas A&M	4 - 1	0.791
16	10	Texas	4 - 1	0.787
17	19	Mississippi St.	5 - 0	0.779
18	28	Rutgers	5 - 0	0.767
19	25	Boise State	4 - 1	0.762
20	14	Texas Tech	4 - 1	0.755
21	34	Iowa St.	4 - 1	0.750
22	33	Michigan	3 - 2	0.743
23	21	Michigan St.	4 - 2	0.740
24	27	Oregon St.	4 - 0	0.739
25	32	Cincinnati	4 - 0	0.736
26	24	Arizona St.	4 - 1	0.729
27	22	Louisville	5 - 0	0.726
28	13	Texas Christian	4 - 1	0.725
29	23	Clemson	5 - 1	0.715
30	38	Brigham Young	4 - 2	0.709
31	29	Oklahoma St.	2 - 2	0.706
32	18	Nebraska	4 - 2	0.706
33	37	Baylor	3 - 1	0.684
34	46	Penn State	4 - 2	0.679
35	35	Ohio	6 - 0	0.679
36	45	Tulsa	5 - 1	0.678
37	30	Missouri	3 - 3	0.666
38	36	Louisiana Tech	5 - 0	0.664
39	31	Northwestern	5 - 1	0.657
40	42	Tennessee	3 - 2	0.654
41	49	North Carolina	4 - 2	0.653
42	40	Western Kentucky	4 - 1	0.652
43	51	North Carolina St.	4 - 2	0.648
44	47	Arizona	3 - 3	0.635
45	55	Northern Illinois	5 - 1	0.633
46	26	UCLA	4 - 2	0.631
47	57	Central Florida	3 - 2	0.626
48	58	Toledo	5 - 1	0.624
49	50	Wisconsin	4 - 2	0.622
50	60	Duke	5 - 1	0.620
51	48	Nevada	5 - 1	0.619
52	62	Vanderbilt	2 - 3	0.616
53	39	Washington	3 - 2	0.612
54	53	San Jose St.	4 - 1	0.607
55	52	Utah St.	4 - 2	0.606
56	44	Miami, Florida	4 - 2	0.604
57	41	Purdue	3 - 2	0.604
58	61	LA-Lafayette	4 - 1	0.597
59	59	Iowa	3 - 2	0.593
60	66	Fresno St.	4 - 2	0.586
61	43	Virginia Tech	3 - 3	0.577
62	54	Utah	2 - 3	0.566
63	63	Minnesota	4 - 1	0.565
64	69	LA-Monroe	3 - 2	0.557
65	77	California	2 - 4	0.553
66	64	Mississippi	3 - 3	0.541
67	65	Connecticut	3 - 3	0.533
68	73	Kent	4 - 1	0.522
69	68	Troy St.	3 - 2	0.515
70	78	Maryland	3 - 2	0.514
71	70	Texas-San Antonio	5 - 0	0.493
72	82	Arkansas St.	3 - 3	0.491
73	56	Auburn	1 - 4	0.484
74	87	San Diego St.	3 - 3	0.483
75	75	Kentucky	1 - 5	0.476
76	67	Georgia Tech	2 - 4	0.471
77	95	Temple	2 - 2	0.470
78	92	Bowling Green	3 - 3	0.466
79	83	Syracuse	2 - 3	0.465
80	96	Arkansas	2 - 4	0.463
81	93	Western Michigan	3 - 3	0.459
82	72	Pittsburgh	2 - 3	0.458
83	71	South Florida	2 - 4	0.457
84	74	Ball St.	3 - 3	0.449
85	98	New Mexico	3 - 3	0.448
86	76	East Carolina	3 - 3	0.446
87	99	Southern Methodist	2 - 3	0.432
88	86	Indiana	2 - 3	0.428
89	81	Marshall	2 - 4	0.427
90	100	Navy	2 - 3	0.427
91	88	Houston	2 - 3	0.426
92	79	Miami, Ohio	3 - 3	0.418
93	89	Wake Forest	3 - 3	0.412
94	91	Central Michigan	2 - 3	0.409
95	85	Illinois	2 - 4	0.407
96	112	AL-Birmingham	1 - 4	0.397
97	84	Virginia	2 - 4	0.393
98	94	Middle Tennessee St.	3 - 2	0.389
99	80	Boston College	1 - 4	0.371
100	97	Air Force	2 - 3	0.368
101	90	North Texas	2 - 4	0.359
102	106	Buffalo	1 - 4	0.333
103	107	Washington St.	2 - 4	0.331
104	104	Wyoming	1 - 4	0.326
105	101	Florida International	1 - 5	0.320
106	102	Texas St.	2 - 3	0.311
107	103	Southern Mississippi	0 - 5	0.291
108	105	Kansas	1 - 4	0.287
109	110	Hawaii	1 - 4	0.263
110	108	Texas-El Paso	1 - 5	0.262
111	111	Akron	1 - 5	0.258
112	119	Army	1 - 4	0.246
113	109	Rice	1 - 5	0.243
114	115	South Alabama	1 - 4	0.234
115	113	Florida Atlantic	1 - 4	0.227
116	114	Nevada-Las Vegas	1 - 5	0.225
117	118	Colorado	1 - 4	0.206
118	122	Memphis	1 - 4	0.199
119	116	New Mexico St.	1 - 5	0.189
120	117	Eastern Michigan	0 - 5	0.172
121	120	Colorado St.	1 - 5	0.171
122	125	Idaho	1 - 5	0.154
123	121	Tulane	0 - 5	0.149
124	123	Wild Card U.	14 - 86	0.149
125	124	Massachusetts	0 - 6	0.125
126	126	Georgia St.	0 - 6	0.045

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