2023 College Football Power Ratings: Fans Be Outraged!

The start of the 2023-24 college football season is just 11 days away and each Monday throughout the season, we’ll release our power rankings.

Before you dive into them, let me warn you. You’re going to disagree with them.

Hell, I disagree with them and I helped come up with the formula that sorted them all out. I can already hear Georgia fans screaming about not being #1.

Tennessee fans will be mad that the ‘other’ UT is a spot ahead of them.

Kentucky fans will be upset with the fact that Tennessee is 6th, and Alabama fans– well, they’re not used to being anything other than preseason numero uno.

2023 NCAAF Power Ratings

The model isn’t perfect, and wasn’t designed to be and I haven’t listed each team’s home field advantage to avoid more clutter.

Suffice it to say that it is roughly 2 points for the majority of teams.

If you’ve never used a power rating, you can figure out where we have a game handicapped by taking any two teams and subtracting their power ratings.

(Ex: Georgia 51.82 – Tennessee 45.38 = Georgia -6.44 on a neutral field)

Opening Power Ratings

1	Ohio St	52.71
2	Georgia	51.82
3	Alabama	51.65
4	Michigan	47.62
5	Texas	45.74
6	Tennessee	45.38
7	Penn St	45.09
8	LSU	44.44
9	Clemson	44.12
10	Utah	43.54
11	Oklahoma	42.72
12	Notre Dame	42.46
13	USC	42.40
14	TCU	42.05
15	Oregon	41.96
16	Kansas St	41.90
17	Florida St	40.80
18	Mississippi	40.60
19	Baylor	40.09
20	Washington	39.97
21	Florida	39.82
22	Wisconsin	39.78
23	Mississippi St	39.45
24	Oregon St	39.45
25	Minnesota	39.05
26	Texas Tech	38.74
27	Iowa	38.73
28	Kentucky	38.32
29	Texas A&M	38.23
30	Iowa St	38.23
31	Oklahoma St	38.08
32	Arkansas	37.82
33	Illinois	37.36
34	Louisville	37.32
35	Auburn	37.19
36	UCLA	37.10
37	Pittsburgh	37.06
38	UCF	37.03
39	Cincinnati	36.40
40	NC ST	36.40
41	Maryland	36.22
42	Michigan St	36.16
43	UNC	36.13
44	Wake Forest	36.07
45	South Carolina	35.81
46	Purdue	35.78
47	Tulane	35.24
48	Missouri	35.20
49	West VA	34.92
50	Syracuse	34.66
51	Washington St	34.64
52	SMU	33.85
53	Boise St	33.58
54	Houston	33.45
55	Nebraska	33.34
56	Miami FL	33.28
57	Memphis	33.18
58	California	33.05
59	Duke	33.03
60	BYU	33.01
61	Kansas	32.83
62	Arizona St	31.80
63	Air Force	31.63
64	Fresno St	31.59
65	UT San Antonio	31.41
66	Arizona	31.03
67	Appalachian St	30.88
68	East Carolina	30.79
69	Troy	30.62
70	Marshall	30.49
71	Indiana	30.40
72	James Madison	30.36
73	WKU	30.14
74	Stanford	29.88
75	Louisiana	29.87
76	Northwestern	29.53
77	UAB	29.35
78	Va Tech	29.21
79	Georgia Tech	29.09
80	South Alabama	28.56
81	Toledo	28.29
82	Vanderbilt	28.20
83	Tulsa	28.11
84	Navy	27.94
85	Army	27.93
86	Coastal Car	27.84
87	Rutgers	27.83
88	San Diego St	27.73
89	FAU	27.49
90	Boston College	27.46
91	Liberty	27.21
92	Georgia St	27.07
93	Ohio	26.83
94	Ga Southern	26.75
95	North Texas	26.74
96	Virginia	26.55
97	San Jose St	26.31
98	Wyoming	25.98
99	Southern Miss	25.53
100	Buffalo	25.36
101	Miami OH	24.88
102	Kent	24.48
103	E Michigan	24.43
104	Utah St	24.38
105	C Michigan	24.18
106	MTSU	24.10
107	W Michigan	23.75
108	Ball St	23.64
109	UNLV	23.61
110	Colorado	23.58
111	USF	23.47
112	Old Dominion	23.25
113	Arkansas St	23.06
114	Temple	22.85
115	N Illinois	22.73
116	Nevada	22.23
117	La Tech	22.10
118	Rice	22.02
119	Colorado St	21.50
120	Jacksonville St	21.43
121	UTEP	21.24
122	Texas St	21.00
123	UCONN	20.48
124	ULM	20.48
125	Hawaii	20.40
126	Bowling Green	19.65
127	Sam Houston St	19.54
128	Charlotte	19.33
129	New Mexico St	18.49
130	Akron	17.27
131	New Mexico	16.93
132	FIU	12.03
133	Massachusetts	11.80