Excel H Sports College Football FCS rankings September 20 2026

This year will be the same as always; we start the year off with the Top 25 and then after each week add teams to our BELOW THE 25 and remove teams.

Our rankings throughout the year will be based on strength of schedule.

We have our own in-house method of determining strength of schedule.

Steven Stremming is a member of the Football Writers Association of America

	Team	Record	Last Week	Schedule
1	Montana State	4,0	1	S 26  Northern Arizona
2	Tarleton State	4,0	2	OFF
3	Illinois State	4,0	3	S 26 @ Northern Iowa
4	South Dakota State	3,1	4	S 26  Eastern Illinois
5	Montana	3,1	5	S 26 @ U C Davis
6	North Dakota	3,1	6	S 26 @ North Dakota
7	Youngstown State	2,2	7	S 26  South Dakota
8	Stephen F Austin	4,0	8	S 26 Northwestern State
9	South Dakota	3,1	10	S 26  @ Youngstown State
10	Lehigh	4,0	12	S 26 @ Penn
11	Tennessee Tech	3,0	9	S 26 @ Wofford
12	Lamar	2,1	14	S 26 @ Nicholls
13	Idaho State	3,0	15	S 26 @ Southern Utah
14	South Carolina State	4,0	16	S 26 @ Bethune Cookman
15	U C Davis	3,1	18	S 26  Montana
16	Yale	1,0	21	S 26 @ Cornell
17	Colgate	3,1	23	S 26  @ Villanova
18	Furman	2,2	17	S 26 @ Richmond
19	Austin Peay	3,1	NR	S 26 U T Martin
20	Columbia	1,0	NR	S 26 Georgetown
21	Brown	1,0	NR	S 26 Harvard
22	Stony Brook	2,2	NR	S 26 @ Fordham
23	Jackson State	3,0	NR	S 26 Southern
24	Villanova	2,2	22	S 26  Colgate
25	Northern Arizona	3,1	25	S 26 @ Montana StAte
25	Mercer	2,2	20	S 26 @ Abilene Christian

BELOW THE 25: U Albany 2-2, Rhode Island 2-2, William & Mary 2-2, Indiana State 2-2, Monmouth 2-2, Richmond 3-1, Butler 3-1, Western Carolina 2-2, Southeast Louisiana 2-2, Cal Poly 2-2, Elon 3-1, Incarnate Word 2-1, Houston Christian 2-2, Weber State 2-2, Alabama A & M 3-1, Western Illinois 2-2, Dayton 3-0, Chattanooga 2-2, Campbell 3-1, Harvard 1-0, Morgan State 2-1, Robert Morris 2-1