Excel H Sports College Football FCS rankings September 27 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	5,0	1	Oct 2 @  Idaho
2	Tarleton State	4,0	2	Oct 3  Chicago State
3	South Dakota State	4,1	4	Oct 3 @ Illinois State
4	Montana	4,1	5	Oct 3  Northern Colorado
5	Youngstown State	3,2	7	Oct 3 @ Southern Illinois
6	North Dakota	4,1	6	Oct 3 Murray State
7	Illinois State	4,1	3	Oct 3  South Dakota State
8	Stephen F Austin	5,0	8	Oct 3  Incarnate Word
9	Lehigh	5,0	10	Oct 3  Fordham
10	Idaho State	4,0	13	Oct 3 Northern Arizona
11	South Dakota	3,2	9	Oct 3  Indiana State
12	Tennessee Tech	3,1	11	Oct 3 @ Western Carolina
13	Lamar	3,1	12	Oct 3  Northwestern State
14	Austin Peay	4,1	19	Oct 3  New Haven
15	South Carolina State	5,0	14	Oct 3  @ The Citadel
16	Colgate	4,1	17	Oct 3  @ Harvard
17	Northern Arizona	3,2	25	Oct 3 @ Idaho State
18	Jackson State	4,0	23	Oct 3  Alabama A & M
19	Columbia	2,0	20	Oct 3  Princeton
20	Stony Brook	3,2	22	OFF
21	Harvard	2,0	NR	Oct 3  Colgate
22	Southern Illinois	3,2	NR	Oct 3  Youngstown State
23	Northern Iowa	2,2	NR	OFF
24	U C Davis	3,2	15	Oct 3  Eastern Washington
25	Brown	1,1	21	Oct 3 @ Rhode Island

BELOW THE 25: (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) Indiana State 2-3, Yale 1-1, Villanova 2-3, Mercer 3-2, Furman 2-3, Cornell 1-1, Richmond 3-1, Chattanooga 3-2, Cal Poly 2-2, Campbell 4-1, Monmouth 3-2, Bryant 3-1, U Albany 2-3, Robert Morris 2-2, Marist 2-2, Dayton 3-0, Alabama A & M 4-1, Alabama State 3-1, Alcorn 3-1, Butler 4-1, Princeton 1-1, Morgan State 3-1, Norfolk State 3-2, William & Mary 2-3, East Tennessee State 3-2, Incarnate Word 2-2, Southeast Louisiana 3-2, West Florida 3-1, North Alabama 3-2