ARGH 2009 Power Ratings

The following are the ARGH power ratings for the 2009 season through games of 12-5-09. Teams included are the 120 Division 1-A teams.

The estimated home field advantage is .576, or about 3.96 points for an average game. The power ratings represent the chance that the team in question has of beating an average Division 1-A team without regard to location.

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This Week	Last Week	Team	2009 Record	Power Rating
1	2	Alabama	13 - 0	0.950
2	3	Texas	13 - 0	0.937
3	1	Florida	12 - 1	0.923
4	4	Texas Christian	12 - 0	0.912
5	5	Cincinnati	12 - 0	0.883
6	6	Boise State	13 - 0	0.869
7	8	Ohio St.	10 - 2	0.841
8	7	Virginia Tech	9 - 3	0.838
9	9	Oregon	10 - 2	0.837
10	10	Penn State	10 - 2	0.819
11	13	Georgia Tech	11 - 2	0.801
12	14	Louisiana St.	9 - 3	0.796
13	11	Nebraska	9 - 4	0.795
14	16	Oklahoma	7 - 5	0.786
15	12	Iowa	10 - 2	0.777
16	17	Miami, Florida	9 - 3	0.772
17	15	Pittsburgh	9 - 3	0.762
18	24	Brigham Young	10 - 2	0.736
19	18	Southern California	8 - 4	0.732
20	28	Oklahoma St.	9 - 3	0.731
21	27	Central Michigan	11 - 2	0.731
22	19	Oregon St.	8 - 4	0.728
23	26	Arizona	8 - 4	0.726
24	25	Texas Tech	8 - 4	0.724
25	31	Arkansas	7 - 5	0.723
26	23	Clemson	8 - 5	0.720
27	21	Stanford	8 - 4	0.719
28	29	Mississippi	8 - 4	0.717
29	36	West Virginia	9 - 3	0.715
30	32	Wisconsin	9 - 3	0.714
31	33	Tennessee	7 - 5	0.700
32	30	North Carolina	8 - 4	0.699
33	20	Houston	10 - 3	0.681
34	40	Georgia	7 - 5	0.681
35	42	Auburn	7 - 5	0.676
36	22	California	8 - 4	0.673
37	37	Utah	9 - 3	0.672
38	34	Boston College	8 - 4	0.665
39	38	Connecticut	7 - 5	0.665
40	39	Missouri	8 - 4	0.664
41	41	South Carolina	7 - 5	0.659
42	35	Rutgers	8 - 4	0.646
43	47	Kentucky	7 - 5	0.634
44	48	East Carolina	9 - 4	0.630
45	45	Notre Dame	6 - 6	0.620
46	43	Air Force	7 - 5	0.617
47	53	Nevada	8 - 4	0.608
48	52	Mississippi St.	5 - 7	0.607
49	51	South Florida	7 - 5	0.607
50	44	Navy	8 - 4	0.606
51	49	UCLA	6 - 6	0.603
52	57	Florida St.	6 - 6	0.601
53	46	Central Florida	8 - 4	0.600
54	58	Washington	5 - 7	0.582
55	54	Fresno St.	8 - 4	0.582
56	50	Troy St.	9 - 3	0.580
57	56	Michigan St.	6 - 6	0.574
58	55	Middle Tennessee St.	9 - 3	0.564
59	66	Texas A&M	6 - 6	0.556
60	59	Northwestern	8 - 4	0.545
61	60	Minnesota	6 - 6	0.538
62	62	Temple	9 - 3	0.536
63	61	Ohio	9 - 4	0.532
64	63	Southern Mississippi	7 - 5	0.532
65	67	Kansas	5 - 7	0.520
66	65	Arizona St.	4 - 8	0.516
67	64	Wake Forest	5 - 7	0.510
68	70	Kansas St.	6 - 6	0.504
69	69	Purdue	5 - 7	0.503
70	71	Iowa St.	6 - 6	0.487
71	68	Bowling Green	7 - 5	0.482
72	75	Northern Illinois	7 - 5	0.482
73	74	North Carolina St.	5 - 7	0.478
74	73	Michigan	5 - 7	0.471
75	78	Baylor	4 - 8	0.454
76	72	Southern Methodist	7 - 5	0.445
77	77	Idaho	7 - 5	0.427
78	83	Louisiana Tech	4 - 8	0.426
79	76	Marshall	6 - 6	0.425
80	80	Duke	5 - 7	0.419
81	82	Syracuse	4 - 8	0.409
82	79	Tulsa	5 - 7	0.402
83	85	Louisville	4 - 8	0.400
84	84	LA-Monroe	6 - 6	0.395
85	89	Illinois	3 - 9	0.393
86	87	AL-Birmingham	5 - 7	0.389
87	81	Buffalo	5 - 7	0.383
88	94	Colorado	3 - 9	0.382
89	91	Virginia	3 - 9	0.382
90	90	Indiana	4 - 8	0.371
91	86	Nevada-Las Vegas	5 - 7	0.364
92	88	Wyoming	6 - 6	0.363
93	95	Utah St.	4 - 8	0.348
94	93	Hawaii	6 - 7	0.340
95	97	LA-Lafayette	6 - 6	0.336
96	98	Vanderbilt	2 - 10	0.333
97	92	Arkansas St.	4 - 8	0.329
98	96	Florida Atlantic	5 - 7	0.328
99	100	Toledo	5 - 7	0.315
100	99	Texas-El Paso	4 - 8	0.312
101	102	San Diego St.	4 - 8	0.300
102	103	Kent	5 - 7	0.298
103	101	Western Michigan	5 - 7	0.292
104	105	Maryland	2 - 10	0.287
105	106	Colorado St.	3 - 9	0.273
106	104	Florida International	3 - 9	0.260
107	107	Army	5 - 6	0.259
108	109	Memphis	2 - 10	0.235
109	108	Akron	3 - 9	0.231
110	110	North Texas	2 - 10	0.199
111	112	Tulane	3 - 9	0.186
112	113	Ball St.	2 - 10	0.173
113	115	Rice	2 - 10	0.173
114	114	Washington St.	1 - 11	0.165
115	111	San Jose St.	2 - 10	0.158
116	116	Miami, Ohio	1 - 11	0.151
117	117	New Mexico St.	3 - 10	0.140
118	118	New Mexico	1 - 11	0.139
119	120	Wild Card U.	5 - 89	0.095
120	119	Western Kentucky	0 - 12	0.090
121	121	Eastern Michigan	0 - 12	0.073

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