CollegeOctober 4, 2026

Week 5: Every FBS Team Ranked

All 138 teams through Week 5. Opponent-adjusted efficiency does the heavy lifting, with per-play production and the betting market as seasoning. No polls.

Every team that plays FBS football, ranked one through 138, through the games of Saturday, Oct. 3.

A partial week, and why

Week 5 only partly shows up yet. The opponent-adjusted efficiency rating, the ingredient that does most of the work, is current only through Week 4, and the betting-market ingredient is carried over from Sept. 22. Records and per-play production are current through Saturday. So most of this week's movement is the adjusted rating catching up on Week 4, and a big Week 5 result has not moved a team as far as it eventually will.

That matters most for three teams that lost badly on Saturday: Florida (45-17 at Missouri), Penn State (34-13 to Northwestern) and Virginia (38-7 to Florida State). None of those results is fully in yet, so read their spots as ceilings.

What the number means

The rating is roughly how many points per game a team projects to beat an average FBS opponent by. Georgia at +30.0 would be about a four-touchdown favorite against that average team; UL Monroe at −28.0 would lose by about the same. The gap between any two teams is a rough spread: Georgia (+30.0) against Clemson (+2.1) comes out around twenty-eight.

Three ingredients go into one number. An opponent-adjusted efficiency rating does nearly all of the work, because it is the only one of the three that accounts for who a team has actually played. Raw per-play production and the betting market are in there to catch what the adjusted rating misses, but they are seasoning, not the meal.

No poll touches any of this. Not the AP, not the coaches. How the three ingredients are weighted against each other is a judgment call, and it is ours — we are not publishing the dial settings.

Off and Def are national ranks, one to 138, not ratings. Off 1 is the best offense in the country, Def 1 the best defense. They come from the on-field blend only, with no market component, because odds do not split by side of the ball. They show where a rating comes from — Oklahoma is 26th overall behind the No. 5 defense despite the 84th offense, while USC has the third-best offense in the country and sits 14th because the defense ranks 56th.

All 138


1	Georgia	+30.0	1	1
2	Ohio State	+28.4	2	2
3	Notre Dame	+27.4	5	3
4	Indiana	+27.0	4	6
5	Miami	+25.9	7	8
6	Alabama	+22.5	8	12
7	LSU	+21.6	21	4
8	Texas	+21.5	22	7
9	Oregon	+20.8	6	26
10	Utah	+20.0	11	11
11	Texas Tech	+19.2	13	17
12	Florida	+17.5	9	34
13	Tennessee	+17.0	15	24
14	USC	+16.1	3	56
15	BYU	+15.7	23	20
16	Penn State	+15.5	31	13
17	Nebraska	+14.9	16	22
18	Mississippi State	+13.2	10	49
19	Michigan	+13.1	56	9
20	Iowa	+12.9	53	10
21	Missouri	+12.7	38	18
22	Pittsburgh	+12.6	34	14
23	UCLA	+12.6	17	36
24	Kansas State	+12.3	20	33
25	Virginia	+12.2	35	21
26	Oklahoma	+12.1	84	5
27	SMU	+11.7	19	44
28	Washington	+11.1	48	16
29	Virginia Tech	+10.8	28	32
30	Ole Miss	+10.8	12	80
31	Houston	+10.6	14	52
32	Auburn	+9.8	57	19
33	Arizona	+9.0	33	37
34	Louisville	+9.0	18	71
35	James Madison	+8.8	44	25
36	Duke	+8.7	29	41
37	Texas A&M	+8.2	41	43
38	Oklahoma State	+8.1	36	42
39	Boise State	+6.8	27	54
40	North Dakota State	+6.7	54	30
41	New Mexico	+6.7	58	27
42	Cincinnati	+6.7	24	68
43	Baylor	+6.5	55	31
44	TCU	+6.3	59	28
45	South Carolina	+6.3	40	57
46	UCF	+6.3	71	23
47	Kentucky	+6.2	39	46
48	Northwestern	+6.2	51	39
49	Illinois	+5.9	25	76
50	Wisconsin	+5.6	83	15
51	Florida State	+5.2	32	74
52	Vanderbilt	+5.1	50	45
53	Minnesota	+4.2	69	35
54	Liberty	+3.9	63	51
55	Wake Forest	+3.3	47	67
56	South Florida	+2.6	49	60
57	Toledo	+2.2	68	64
58	Clemson	+2.1	95	29
59	Maryland	+2.1	60	58
60	Iowa State	+1.8	86	40
61	Kansas	+1.8	62	55
62	NC State	+1.7	37	88
63	North Carolina	+1.3	89	38
64	Memphis	+1.0	30	97
65	UTSA	+0.6	46	98
66	Fresno State	+0.5	90	47
67	Arizona State	+0.4	79	48
68	Army	+0.3	64	82
69	Oregon State	+0.2	66	61
70	West Virginia	-0.2	42	94
71	Louisiana	-0.5	81	73
72	Jacksonville State	-0.5	72	84
73	Texas State	-1.0	26	122
74	Air Force	-1.3	74	90
75	UNLV	-1.4	78	87
76	Syracuse	-2.0	98	50
77	Georgia Tech	-2.2	73	79
78	Arkansas	-2.9	65	91
79	Michigan State	-2.9	88	65
80	Tulsa	-2.9	100	59
81	Miami (OH)	-3.0	85	93
82	UConn	-3.2	76	92
83	East Carolina	-3.5	93	66
84	App State	-3.7	77	96
85	Florida Atlantic	-3.7	61	107
86	Rutgers	-3.8	43	115
87	Navy	-4.0	75	95
88	Colorado	-4.1	102	53
89	California	-4.5	96	69
90	North Texas	-4.8	45	121
91	Western Michigan	-5.4	111	72
92	Temple	-5.8	70	113
93	Boston College	-6.4	106	63
94	Massachusetts	-6.6	97	75
95	Colorado State	-7.0	67	117
96	Old Dominion	-7.1	122	70
97	Florida International	-7.3	121	62
98	Nevada	-7.4	103	89
99	Troy	-7.6	114	81
100	Purdue	-8.0	52	127
101	Tulane	-8.0	108	86
102	Arkansas State	-8.3	91	114
103	Georgia Southern	-8.5	92	101
104	Louisiana Tech	-8.8	104	99
105	Ohio	-9.0	101	105
106	San Diego State	-9.1	117	85
107	Georgia State	-9.1	80	119
108	Delaware	-9.6	105	106
109	Utah State	-10.1	123	77
110	Kennesaw State	-10.1	107	103
111	Washington State	-10.2	124	78
112	Hawai'i	-10.5	109	112
113	Stanford	-10.9	99	104
114	Coastal Carolina	-10.9	94	118
115	Marshall	-11.1	82	135
116	Wyoming	-11.7	126	83
117	UAB	-13.7	113	109
118	Sam Houston	-13.7	111	110
119	San José State	-13.8	125	100
120	South Alabama	-13.8	87	136
121	Rice	-15.3	119	116
122	Buffalo	-15.7	128	108
123	Central Michigan	-15.9	132	102
124	Eastern Michigan	-16.0	127	111
125	New Mexico State	-16.1	118	123
126	Middle Tennessee	-16.2	120	120
127	Missouri State	-16.8	116	128
128	Western Kentucky	-17.2	110	131
129	Southern Miss	-17.8	115	130
130	Sacramento State	-21.5	135	124
131	Kent State	-21.8	133	125
132	Akron	-21.9	129	132
133	Northern Illinois	-23.5	136	129
134	Ball State	-24.2	134	133
135	UTEP	-24.7	131	134
136	Bowling Green	-26.0	138	126
137	Charlotte	-27.1	137	137
138	UL Monroe	-28.0	130	138

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