In advance of today’s games, I thought I would share my own FBS poll. Feel free to chime in with your own rankings in this thread! If there’s enough interest, maybe we can eventually create our own poll system for this community.

First, I should state this is purely a computer poll. (I’m not intentionally disrespecting any teams!) Think of it more like a power rating. Secondly, it is the pre-season so it’s kind of a shot in the dark. I definitely could adjust things (e.g. Alabama & Oregon State are too low; Louisville & Maryland seem strangely high) but then bias can creep in. I’ve been doing my own rankings for 5 years, making slight tweaks to the algorithm along the way, but had to overhaul it recently in the transfer portal era so there may still be kinks to be ironed out.

Without further ado:

Full list of 133 teams:
Rank Team Points
1 Michigan 942
2 Georgia 907
3 Utah 818
4 Oregon 764
5 Washington 754
6 Ohio State 737
7 LSU 733
8 USC 722
9 Texas 720
10 Penn State 674
11 Notre Dame 666
12 Clemson 656
13 North Carolina 652
14 Florida State 641
15 Ole Miss 623
16 Louisville 621
17 Duke 590
18 Wisconsin 586
19 Tennessee 580
20 Tulane 566
21 Texas A&M 560
T22 Maryland 558
T22 Oklahoma 558
24 Alabama 554
25 Illinois 551
26 TCU 544
27 UCLA 529
28 Texas Tech 527
29 South Alabama 523
T30 Kansas State 519
T30 Minnesota 519
32 Troy 518
33 Oregon State 513
34 Miami (FL) 512
35 Toledo 508
36 Kentucky 503
37 Arkansas 498
38 South Carolina 490
T39 BYU 488
T39 Missouri 488
41 Baylor 481
42 Syracuse 478
43 Florida 475
44 Washington State 472
45 Western Kentucky 466
T46 Boise State 464
T46 Kansas 464
48 Auburn 457
49 UNT 449
50 NC State 445
51 Air Force 438
52 FAU 429
T53 Liberty 427
T53 Wyoming 427
55 Ohio 426
56 UCF 416
T57 Connecticut 415
T57 Purdue 415
59 Mississippi State 414
60 Arizona State 407
61 Fresno State 398
62 Arizona 397
63 Navy 393
T64 Miami (OH) 392
T64 Northwestern 392
66 Memphis 391
67 UTSA 390
68 Iowa State 387
69 Houston 385
70 California 384
T71 Iowa 379
T71 Wake Forest 379
73 Buffalo 377
74 Louisiana 375
75 Oklahoma State 371
76 Southern Mississippi 370
77 Marshall 368
78 West Virginia 366
79 Pittsburgh 364
80 San Jose State 362
81 Northern Illinois 351
82 Michigan State 346
83 USF 342
84 New Mexico State 339
85 Rice 337
86 SMU 336
T87 San Diego State 331
T87 UNLV 331
89 Georgia Tech 328
90 Georgia State 325
91 Nebraska 322
92 Bowling Green 319
93 Eastern Michigan 312
94 Coastal Carolina 309
95 JMU 307
96 Temple 305
97 UTEP 302
98 Army 300
99 Middle Tennessee 296
100 Ball State 294
101 Cincinnati 292
102 Colorado State 290
103 ECU 282
T104 Boston College 275
T104 Central Michigan 275
106 Georgia Southern 274
107 Vanderbilt 273
T108 Stanford 272
T108 Western Michigan 272
110 Virginia Tech 270
111 UAB 263
T112 Appalachian State 261
T112 Virginia 261
T114 FIU 257
T114 Rutgers 257
116 Akron 255
T117 Arkansas State 246
T117 Louisiana Tech 246
119 Old Dominion 244
120 New Mexico 238
121 UL Monroe 235
T122 Hawaii 231
T122 Utah State 231
124 Colorado 222
125 Kent State 216
126 Indiana 215
127 Nevada 207
128 Tulsa 205
129 Texas State 197
130 Massachusetts 191
131 Charlotte 178
132 Jacksonville State 110
133 Sam Houston 90

And may I reiterate: this is the pre-season! Things will shake out by the end of the season (for example, it probably won’t keep 3 PAC schools in the top 5 once that conference cannibalizes itself). Here’s how last season ended in my poll:

  • ManibusanMEnglish
    2•1 year ago
    1. Clemson

    Computer confirmed not an Ohio State fan. Also not a coward by putting Alabama at 24.

    I always enjoy people’s computer polls and graphs/charts. I’m hoping we get more people over here to post content like this!

    • @ToasterOverlordOPMEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      My poll has always places Alabama fairly low because they lose so much production to the NFL every year. I’ve yet to figure out how to account for Nick Saban being a crazy outlier of a coach. But this year it initially had Bama at 60-something so I had to shift the weight to rely more on last season’s final standings.

      • ManibusanMEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Bama at 60-something