Excel H Sports College Football FCS Rankings October 20 2025

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

Rank	Name	Record	Last Week	Schedule
1	South Dakota State	7-0	1	North Dakota State 10/25
1	North Dakota State	7-0	2	South Dakota State 10/25
3	Tarleton State	8-0	3	Eastern Kentucky 10/25
4	Montana	7-0	4	Sacramento State 10/24
5	Montana State	5-2	5	Cal Poly 10/25
6	U C Davis	5-1	6	Northern Colorado 10/25
7	North Dakota	6-1	7	Indiana State 10/25
8	Lehigh	7-0	8	Fordham 10/25
9	Harvard	5-0	9	Princeton 10/25
10	Tennesee Tech	7-0	12	Southeast Missouri State 10/25
11	Youngstown State	4-3	15	Murray State 10/25
12	Jackson State	5-1	13	Grambling 10/25
13	Illinois State	4-3	10	South Dakota 10/25
14	Rhode Island	6-2	14	Bryant 10/25
15	Southern Illinois	4-3	11	Northern Iowa 10/25
16	Stephen F Austin	5-2	16	East Texas A & M 10/25
17	Villanova	5-2	17	U Albany 10/25
18	South Dakota	5-3	19	Illinois State 10/25
19	Southeast Louisiana	5-2	18	Houston Christian 10/25
20	Northern Arizona	4-3	20	Idaho State 10/25
21	Lamar	6-1	23	Northwestern State 10/25
22	Mercer	5-1	24	Virginia Military Institute 10/25
23	North Carolina Central	5-2	26	Delaware State 10/25
24	Dartmouth	4-1	27	Columbia 10/24
25	Yale	3-2	28	Pennsylvania 10/25
26	Monmouth	6-1	29	Hampton 10/25
27	Alabama State	4-2	30	Alabama A & M 10/25
28	Princeton	3-2	NR	Harvard 10/25
29	Western Carolina	5-3	NR	OFF
30	Prairie View A & M	5-2	NR	Lincoln Ca 10/25
30	Austin Peay	4-3	NR	Northern Alabama 10/25

BELOW THE 30 (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER):

Abilene Christian 4-4, Brown 3-2, Butler 5-3, Central Connecticut 5-3, Delaware State 4-3, Drake 4-2, Duquesne 5-3, Elon 4-4, Grambling 4-3, Lafayette 5-3, New Hampshire 4-4, Northern Colorado 3-3, Pennsylvania 4-1, Presbyterian 7-0, Sacramento State 4-3, Texas Southern 4-3, U T Rio Grande 5-2, West Georgia 5-2, William & Mary 4-3

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