1945 W4 CORS rankings

Last updated: 2026-10-19T14:20:23.021234+00:00

rank	school	conference	record	win_pct	cors	mov	sos	expected_wins	wins_vs_expected
1	Tulsa	Missouri Valley	2-0-0	1	28.82	46.5	13.76	2	0
2	Navy	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	27.97	49	26.14	1	0
3	Indiana	Western	1-0-1	0.5	27.86	3	19.33	1.4	-0.4
4	Virginia	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	27.13	29.5	9.47	1.99	0.01
5	TCU	Southwest	2-0-0	1	26.82	9.5	12.48	1.93	0.07
6	Northwestern	Western	1-0-1	0.5	26.54	6	12.77	1.65	-0.65
7	Georgia	SEC	2-0-0	1	26.43	34.5	6.62	2	0
8	Florida	SEC	2-0-0	1	25.89	21	6.05	1.92	0.08
9	Texas A&M	Southwest	2-0-0	1	25.74	22	4.86	1.99	0.01
10	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	25.73	7	22.51	1	0
11	Cornell	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	25.68	11.5	6.06	1.69	0.31
12	Georgia Tech	SEC	1-0-0	1	25.04	6	19.46	0.7	0.3
13	Oklahoma State	Missouri Valley	1-0-0	1	24.96	5	19.65	0.67	0.33
14	Minnesota	Western	1-0-0	1	24.89	34	-2.34	1	0
15	Duke	Southern	2-0-0	1	24.63	68	-6.3	2	0
16	USC	Pacific	2-0-0	1	24.15	9	-1.27	1.88	0.12
17	VMI	Southern	2-0-0	1	24.09	35.5	-4.99	2	0
18	Purdue	Western	2-0-0	1	23.83	7.5	-1.37	1.6	0.4
19	Saint Mary's (CA)	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	23.77	23	-5.68	1.95	0.05
20	Kansas State	Big 6	1-0-0	1	23.66	7	11.79	0.86	0.14
21	Oklahoma	Big 6	2-0-0	1	23.62	17.5	-4.99	1.98	0.02
22	New Mexico	Border	2-0-0	1	23.47	58.5	-10	2	0
23	Texas	Southwest	2-0-0	1	22.82	26	-10	1.99	0.01
24	Pennsylvania	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	22.81	50	0.2	1	0
25	LSU	SEC	1-0-0	1	22.34	42	-1.5	1	0
26	Washington State	Pacific	1-0-0	1	22.34	31	-0.21	0.95	0.05
27	Columbia	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	22.26	26	-0.21	0.92	0.08
28	Ohio State	Western	1-0-0	1	22.2	41	-2.34	0.99	0.01
29	Miami	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	22.07	20	-0.21	0.96	0.04
30	Washington	Pacific	1-0-0	1	21.89	14	-0.21	0.95	0.05
31	Wisconsin	Western	1-0-1	0.5	21.61	13.5	-1.37	1.87	-0.87
32	Holy Cross	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	21.51	7	0.06	0.86	0.14
33	Saint Louis	Missouri Valley	1-0-0	1	21.08	90	-10	1	0
34	Maryland	Southern	1-0-0	1	20.79	54	-10	1	0
35	Colgate	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	20.73	48	-10	1	0
36	Utah State	Mountain State	1-0-0	1	20.7	45	-10	1	0
37	Penn State	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	20.65	40	-10	0.99	0.01
38	Tennessee	SEC	1-0-0	1	20.62	1	0.45	0.59	0.41
39	Army	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	20.54	32	-10	1	0
40	Mississippi State	SEC	1-0-0	1	20.5	31	-10	1	0
41	Colorado State	Mountain State	1-0-0	1	20.46	33	-10	1	0
42	Detroit Mercy	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	20.44	32	-10	1	0
43	Drake	Missouri Valley	1-0-0	1	20.42	27	-10	0.93	0.07
44	Baylor	Southwest	2-1-0	0.67	20.28	23.67	9.43	2.99	-0.99
45	Alabama	SEC	1-0-0	1	20.27	21	-10	1	0
46	Yale	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	20.25	20	-10	0.96	0.04
47	Temple	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	20.21	1	-1.69	0.59	0.41
48	William & Mary	Southern	1-0-0	1	19.98	13	-10	0.94	0.06
49	Boston College	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	19.95	13	-10	1	0
50	Vanderbilt	SEC	1-0-0	1	19.85	12	-10	1	0
51	Merchant Marine Academy	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	19.54	7	-10	0.68	0.32
52	Iowa	Western	1-0-0	1	18.69	1	-10	0.54	0.46
53	Michigan	Western	2-1-0	0.67	18.66	19.67	8.34	2.93	-0.93
54	Clemson	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	16.22	28	9.06	1.92	-0.92
55	NC State	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	14.77	7.5	6.62	1.38	-0.38
56	Illinois	Western	1-1-0	0.5	13.98	5	-0.76	1.59	-0.59
57	Ole Miss	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	13.89	0.5	9.43	1.04	-0.04
58	SMU	Southwest	1-1-0	0.5	13.6	18	-10	1.82	-0.82
59	Auburn	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	13.51	15.5	-10	1.96	-0.96
60	West Virginia	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	13.5	7.5	-5.99	1.48	-0.48
61	Colorado College	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	12.42	-0.5	-1.1	0.91	0.09
62	Pittsburgh	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	12.41	1.5	21.7	1.14	-0.14
63	Arkansas	Southwest	1-1-0	0.5	12.31	0.5	-4.76	1.05	-0.05
64	Texas Tech	Border	1-1-0	0.5	12.28	-1.5	5.48	0.76	0.24
65	Iowa State	Big 6	1-1-0	0.5	12.23	11.5	6.21	1.58	-0.58
66	North Carolina	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	12.02	0	-4.77	1	0
67	Villanova	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	11.7	-18.5	7.13	0.14	0.86
68	Colorado	Mountain State	1-1-0	0.5	11.54	3.5	6.18	1.72	-0.72
69	UCLA	Pacific	1-1-0	0.5	10.1	-0.5	6.17	0.96	0.04
70	Kentucky	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	9.14	-4	6.05	0.62	0.38
71	Kansas	Big 6	1-1-0	0.5	8.98	-8.5	10.59	0.38	0.62
72	South Carolina	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	8.76	-10	10.3	0.55	0.45
73	West Texas A&M	Border	1-2-0	0.33	8.1	-4.33	14.71	1.14	-0.14
74	Bucknell	FBS Independents	1-2-0	0.33	7.99	-3	12.77	1.1	-0.1
75	Wichita State	Missouri Valley	1-2-0	0.33	7.06	-5.33	5.75	1.08	-0.08
76	Tulane	SEC	0-0-0	0	0.03	0	0	0	0
77	New York University	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	0.01	0	0	0	0
78	Harvard	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	-0.03	0	0	0	0
79	Oregon State	Pacific	0-0-1	0	-0.03	0	-10	0.5	-0.5
80	Princeton	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	-0.03	0	0	0	0
81	Virginia Tech	Southern	0-0-0	0	-0.03	0	0	0	0
82	Wake Forest	Southern	0-1-0	0	-0.43	-1	0.49	0.41	-0.41
83	Dartmouth	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.44	-7	0.44	0.14	-0.14
84	Denver	Mountain State	0-2-0	0	-1.7	-6.5	10.21	0.45	-0.45
85	Syracuse	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-1.75	-6.5	11.19	0.47	-0.47
86	Utah	Mountain State	0-1-0	0	-1.85	-19	-10	0.12	-0.12
87	Oregon	Pacific	0-1-0	0	-1.91	-14	0.38	0.05	-0.05
88	California	Pacific	0-2-0	0	-2.08	-9	21.83	0.27	-0.27
89	Marquette	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-2.11	-14	10.44	0.3	-0.3
90	Chattanooga	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.14	-20	-0.02	0.04	-0.04
91	Coast Guard	FBS Independents	0-2-1	0	-2.23	-15.67	1.08	0.02	-0.02
92	Lafayette	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.32	-26	0.07	0.08	-0.08
93	Rice	Southwest	0-2-0	0	-2.42	-27.5	-4.91	0.04	-0.04
94	Idaho	Pacific	0-1-0	0	-2.43	-31	-0.21	0.05	-0.05
95	Great Lakes Navy	FBS Independents	0-3-1	0	-2.47	-18.5	6.78	0.02	-0.02
96	Nebraska	Big 6	0-1-0	0	-2.49	-20	20.41	0	0
97	Brown	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.71	-50	0.3	0	0
98	Michigan State	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.89	-40	16.23	0	0
99	Richmond	Southern	0-1-0	0	-2.91	-34	20.54	0.01	-0.01
100	Missouri	Big 6	0-2-0	0	-3.09	-37.5	11.78	0	0
101	Presbyterian	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-3.47	-58	10.31	0	0