Explanation: Each team is listed with its record, overall score differential, and six ratings. Brief explanations of the ratings follow.
Because these ratings contain no prejudices regarding team or conference strengths, they tend to be quite inaccurate early in the seasons. College football appears to take at least 5 games per team before even remotely reasonable ratings are produced; acceptable ratings are produced with 8 games per team; excellent ratings unfortunately require 14 games per team.

Rankings by division: Overall I-A I-AA II III NAIA KCAC GAC NESCAC


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Unconnected teams:
                                               STANDARD   MED LIKELY  PREDICTIVE  IMPRVD RPI     RPI         POLL       OFFENSE     DEFENSE 
TEAM                    W L T  PF  PA  SCHED  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING  RNK RATING
Colby                   2 2 0  43  77  0.093       0.121       0.072      -0.154      0.0000      0.0000       8.064      -0.887       0.579
Wesleyan                3 1 0 130  60 -0.021       0.240       0.189       0.425      0.0000      0.0000       8.676       0.471       0.380
Tufts                   2 2 0  63  91  0.192       0.157       0.107      -0.058      0.0000      0.0000       8.244      -0.396       0.280
Amherst                 3 1 0 103  70 -0.129       0.221       0.174       0.185      0.0000      0.0000       8.573       0.125       0.245
Trinity CT              3 1 0 111  68  0.122       0.302       0.261       0.308      0.0000      0.0000       8.709       0.393       0.222
Bates                   1 3 0  52  89  0.129      -0.090      -0.166      -0.222      0.0000      0.0000       7.705      -0.650       0.206
Williams                3 1 0 125  68 -0.099       0.203       0.160       0.301      0.0000      0.0000       8.613       0.458       0.145
Middlebury              2 2 0  92  85 -0.012       0.037      -0.016       0.023      0.0000      0.0000       8.140       0.061      -0.014
Bowdoin                 0 4 0  40 106 -0.238      -0.439      -0.530      -0.566      0.0000      0.0000       7.244      -1.055      -0.078
Hamilton                1 3 0  71 116 -0.036      -0.134      -0.212      -0.243      0.0000      0.0000       7.665      -0.303      -0.184



Conference Strengths CONFERENCE W L T PCT RNK RATING

Home field advantage amounts to:
     0.153 points in main ratings
     0.025 points in improved RPI
Average of 6.20 points per score
Predict score:
Team Strength vs. Time Plot:
posted: Mon Oct 13 21:07:57 2025

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