Excel H Sports College Football FCS rankings October 4, 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	South Dakota State	5,1	3
2	Tarleton State	5,0	2
3	Montana	5,1	4
4	Youngstown State	4,2	5
5	Montana State	5,1	1
6	North Dakota	5,1	6
7	Stephen F Austin	6,0	8
8	Lehigh	6,0	9
9	Illinois State	4,2	7
10	South Dakota	4,2	11
11	Lamar	4,1	13
12	Austin Peay	5,1	14
13	Northern Arizona	4,2	17
14	Idaho State	4,1	10
15	Harvard	3,0	21
16	Northern Iowa	2,2	23
17	Jackson State	5,0	18
18	Colgate	4,2	16
19	Yale	2,1	NR
20	Richmond	5,1	NR
21	UC Davis	4,2	24
22	Princeton	2,1	NR
23	Western Carolina	3,3	NR
24	Tennessee Tech	3,2	12
25	Southern Illinois	3,3	22

BELOW THE 25 (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER): Stony Brook 3-2, Columbia 2-1, South Carolina State 5-1, Rhode Island 3-3, Brown 1-2, Morgan State 4-1, Cornell 2-1, Mercer 4-2, Weber State 3-3, Campbell 5-1, Alabama A & M 4-2, East Tennessee State 4-2, U Albany 3-3, The Citadel 2-3, Robert Morris 3-2, Norfolk State 3-3