1945 W5 CORS rankings

Last updated: 2026-10-19T14:20:23.021576+00:00

rank	school	conference	record	win_pct	cors	mov	sos	expected_wins	wins_vs_expected
1	Navy	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	28.86	35	18.16	2	0
2	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	28.46	20	19.51	1.98	0.02
3	Tulsa	Missouri Valley	3-0-0	1	27.75	37.33	11.86	3	0
4	Indiana	Western	2-0-1	0.67	27.55	4	19.73	2.44	-0.44
5	Virginia	FBS Independents	3-0-0	1	27.51	30.67	12.21	2.98	0.02
6	Georgia	SEC	3-0-0	1	26.74	25	9.43	2.92	0.08
7	Ohio State	Western	2-0-0	1	26.37	41.5	7.8	2	0
8	Texas A&M	Southwest	3-0-0	1	26.22	16.33	8.63	2.85	0.15
9	Tennessee	SEC	2-0-0	1	25.99	18	9.78	1.85	0.15
10	Holy Cross	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	25.83	14	9.4	1.97	0.03
11	Penn State	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	25.5	30	5.37	1.96	0.04
12	Oklahoma State	Missouri Valley	2-0-0	1	25.42	14.5	5.31	1.77	0.23
13	Alabama	SEC	2-0-0	1	25.34	20	6.17	1.98	0.02
14	Purdue	Western	3-0-0	1	24.89	7	5.68	2.41	0.59
15	Florida	SEC	2-0-1	0.67	24.72	14	1.31	2.79	-0.79
16	Mississippi State	SEC	2-0-0	1	24.67	25.5	1.75	2	0
17	Minnesota	Western	2-0-0	1	24.58	44	-2.79	2	0
18	Cornell	FBS Independents	3-0-0	1	24.46	20.67	-1.25	2.88	0.12
19	Washington State	Pacific	2-0-0	1	24.42	32	-1.23	1.98	0.02
20	Pennsylvania	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	24.28	31	-2.08	2	0
21	Temple	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	24.24	30	-0.87	1.99	0.01
22	New Mexico	Border	3-0-0	1	24.2	43.33	-3.97	3	0
23	Columbia	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	24.19	29	-2.04	1.96	0.04
24	Texas	Southwest	3-0-0	1	24.13	28.33	-2.57	2.99	0.01
25	USC	Pacific	3-0-0	1	23.96	10	-0.66	2.65	0.35
26	Army	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	23.65	43	-5.21	2	0
27	Saint Mary's (CA)	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	23.41	23	-6.04	1.95	0.05
28	Maryland	Southern	2-0-0	1	23.34	37.5	-6.46	2	0
29	Saint Louis	Missouri Valley	2-0-0	1	22.98	61	-10	2	0
30	Utah State	Mountain State	1-0-0	1	22.75	45	-10	1	0
31	Detroit Mercy	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	22.6	37	-10	2	0
32	Merchant Marine Academy	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	21.7	9.5	-10	1.68	0.32
33	Michigan	Western	3-1-0	0.75	20.74	18	12.26	3.88	-0.88
34	Duke	Southern	2-1-0	0.67	19.66	38.33	8.91	2.96	-0.96
35	Clemson	Southern	2-1-0	0.67	18.95	23	12.58	2.92	-0.92
36	Baylor	Southwest	2-1-0	0.67	18.79	23.67	8.31	2.99	-0.99
37	TCU	Southwest	2-1-0	0.67	18.56	2	13.86	1.79	0.21
38	VMI	Southern	2-1-0	0.67	18.26	12.67	4.74	2.42	-0.42
39	Pittsburgh	FBS Independents	2-1-0	0.67	18.09	13.67	11.82	2.76	-0.76
40	Oklahoma	Big 6	2-1-0	0.67	18.01	10	4.42	2.6	-0.6
41	Ole Miss	SEC	2-1-0	0.67	17.98	2.67	18.29	1.82	0.18
42	Arkansas	Southwest	2-1-0	0.67	17.62	4.67	13.93	2.02	-0.02
43	UCLA	Pacific	2-1-0	0.67	16.58	16.33	1.38	2.76	-0.76
44	West Virginia	FBS Independents	2-1-0	0.67	16.49	19	-2.53	2.81	-0.81
45	North Carolina	Southern	2-1-0	0.67	16.45	4.67	5	2.34	-0.34
46	Colorado College	FBS Independents	2-1-0	0.67	16.42	12	-0.05	2.78	-0.78
47	Colorado	Mountain State	2-1-0	0.67	15.7	4	0.19	2.28	-0.28
48	LSU	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	14.91	11.5	8.93	1.64	-0.64
49	Miami	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	14.87	7	12.14	1.39	-0.39
50	Colgate	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	14.51	14	5.32	1.69	-0.69
51	Wisconsin	Western	1-1-1	0.33	14.25	7	6.42	2.41	-1.41
52	Northwestern	Western	1-1-1	0.33	14.13	-0.33	19.58	1.45	-0.45
53	Drake	Missouri Valley	1-1-0	0.5	14.08	4	9.41	1.26	-0.26
54	Villanova	FBS Independents	2-1-0	0.67	14.04	-10.33	11.28	0.39	1.61
55	South Carolina	Southern	2-1-0	0.67	13.92	-2	3.72	1.33	0.67
56	Iowa State	Big 6	1-1-1	0.33	13.58	7.67	8.51	2.19	-1.19
57	Vanderbilt	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	13.04	2.5	1.95	1.35	-0.35
58	Washington	Pacific	1-1-0	0.5	12.29	0.5	-2	1.04	-0.04
59	Yale	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	12.23	-0.5	5.76	0.96	0.04
60	Oregon	Pacific	1-1-0	0.5	12.13	6	9.73	1.41	-0.41
61	Georgia Tech	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	11.99	-13.5	18.88	0.32	0.68
62	Kansas State	Big 6	1-1-0	0.5	10.77	-7.5	-1.47	0.49	0.51
63	William & Mary	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	10.66	-11	5.31	0.45	0.55
64	Brown	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	10.57	-2.5	21.38	0.89	0.11
65	Kansas	Big 6	1-1-1	0.33	10.53	-5.67	12.45	0.82	0.18
66	Iowa	Western	1-1-0	0.5	10.16	-20.5	6.1	0.08	0.92
67	Illinois	Western	1-2-0	0.33	9.97	1.33	22	1.83	-0.83
68	Colorado State	Mountain State	1-1-0	0.5	9.6	-11	-10	0.51	0.49
69	Boston College	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	9.58	-16	-6.36	0.18	0.82
70	Chattanooga	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	9.21	-3.5	6.04	0.73	0.27
71	SMU	Southwest	1-2-0	0.33	9.13	11	-7.7	2.53	-1.53
72	NC State	Southern	1-2-0	0.33	9.11	0.67	11.12	1.57	-0.57
73	Auburn	SEC	1-2-0	0.33	9.03	3.67	0.17	2.08	-1.08
74	Michigan State	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	8.57	-19.5	13.9	0.02	0.98
75	California	Pacific	1-2-0	0.33	6.92	-1.67	23.27	1.3	-0.3
76	Texas Tech	Border	1-2-0	0.33	6.59	-12	12.85	0.12	0.88
77	Kentucky	SEC	1-2-0	0.33	6.57	-3	0.33	0.99	0.01
78	West Texas A&M	Border	1-3-0	0.25	4.9	-6.5	15.64	1.16	-0.16
79	Missouri	Big 6	1-2-0	0.33	4.83	-24	20.23	0.05	0.95
80	Wichita State	Missouri Valley	1-3-0	0.25	4.47	-7.5	8.12	1.09	-0.09
81	Bucknell	FBS Independents	1-3-0	0.25	4.31	-11.75	9.95	0.47	0.53
82	Princeton	FBS Independents	0-0-1	0	-0	0	-2.32	0.5	-0.5
83	Tulane	SEC	0-0-1	0	0	0	25.89	0.5	-0.5
84	Harvard	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-0.44	-1	-10	0.41	-0.41
85	Utah	Mountain State	0-2-0	0	-1.98	-12	0.77	0.36	-0.36
86	Virginia Tech	Southern	0-1-0	0	-2.08	-14	12.02	0	0
87	Dartmouth	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-2.09	-9.5	22.16	0.07	-0.07
88	Oregon State	Pacific	0-1-1	0	-2.1	-16.5	6.17	0.11	-0.11
89	Denver	Mountain State	0-3-0	0	-2.21	-12.33	15.45	0.33	-0.33
90	Coast Guard	FBS Independents	0-2-1	0	-2.22	-15.67	2.38	0.02	-0.02
91	Lafayette	FBS Independents	0-1-1	0	-2.24	-13	11.12	0.26	-0.26
92	Marquette	FBS Independents	0-3-0	0	-2.25	-11.33	19.05	0.36	-0.36
93	Rice	Southwest	0-3-0	0	-2.38	-20.33	0.78	0.11	-0.11
94	Great Lakes Navy	FBS Independents	0-4-1	0	-2.39	-16.6	8.82	0.1	-0.1
95	Syracuse	FBS Independents	0-3-0	0	-2.48	-15	22.72	0.17	-0.17
96	Wake Forest	Southern	0-2-0	0	-2.79	-27.5	20.58	0.01	-0.01
97	Idaho	Pacific	0-2-0	0	-2.8	-28.5	10.21	0.07	-0.07
98	Richmond	Southern	0-2-0	0	-3.08	-27.5	22.44	0.01	-0.01
99	Nebraska	Big 6	0-2-0	0	-3.31	-37	24.26	0.01	-0.01
100	New York University	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-3.35	-59	20.21	0	0
101	Presbyterian	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-3.49	-58	12.49	0	0