1946 W3 CORS rankings

Last updated: 2026-10-19T14:20:23.174615+00:00

rank	school	conference	record	win_pct	cors	mov	sos	expected_wins	wins_vs_expected
1	Texas	Southwest	2-0-0	1	29.65	59	11.92	2	0
2	Army	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	29.33	24.5	9.66	1.99	0.01
3	Tulsa	Missouri Valley	2-0-0	1	29.27	36	11.9	1.98	0.02
4	Oklahoma State	Missouri Valley	1-0-1	0.5	28.29	16.5	9.45	1.73	-0.73
5	Utah	Mountain State	1-0-0	1	28.13	42	26.88	0.96	0.04
6	Texas Tech	Border	2-0-0	1	27.46	9	10.89	1.75	0.25
7	Georgia	SEC	1-0-0	1	27.24	23	23.39	0.93	0.07
8	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	27.18	20	23.78	0.97	0.03
9	Iowa	Western	2-0-0	1	26.89	27.5	5.88	2	0
10	Richmond	Southern	1-0-1	0.5	26.81	23	5.8	1.98	-0.98
11	Wisconsin	Western	2-0-0	1	26.72	27.5	0.44	1.99	0.01
12	Miami	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	26.53	10	23.13	0.97	0.03
13	Montana	Pacific	1-0-0	1	26.15	27	20.7	1	0
14	VMI	Southern	1-0-1	0.5	26.06	7	5.42	1.68	-0.68
15	Arkansas	Southwest	1-0-1	0.5	25.91	3.5	8.44	1.21	-0.21
16	Alabama	SEC	2-0-0	1	25.39	10	-1.65	1.8	0.2
17	Navy	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	25.27	7	17.52	1	0
18	Kentucky	SEC	2-0-0	1	24.63	16.5	-5.7	1.9	0.1
19	Hardin-Simmons	Border	2-0-0	1	24.41	22.5	-5.07	1.98	0.02
20	Drake	Missouri Valley	2-0-0	1	24.26	9	-5.62	1.73	0.27
21	Detroit Mercy	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	24.22	31	-10	1	0
22	Montana State	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	23.6	1	18.58	0.55	0.45
23	Mississippi State	SEC	1-0-0	1	23.22	34	1.77	0.99	0.01
24	UCLA	Pacific	1-0-0	1	23.2	43	1.06	0.99	0.01
25	Michigan	Western	1-0-0	1	22.92	21	1.78	1	0
26	TCU	Southwest	1-0-1	0.5	22.81	1.5	11.46	1.2	-0.2
27	Northwestern	Western	1-0-0	1	22.79	32	0.75	0.97	0.03
28	Minnesota	Western	1-0-0	1	22.74	27	0.78	0.98	0.02
29	Yale	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	22.61	33	-1.03	1	0
30	Arizona	Border	1-0-0	1	22.47	67	-1.25	1	0
31	Stanford	Pacific	1-0-0	1	22.47	45	0.09	1	0
32	Cornell	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	22.43	21	0.2	1	0
33	Wyoming	Mountain State	1-0-1	0.5	22.26	3.5	-10	1.68	-0.68
34	USC	Pacific	1-0-0	1	22.2	6	2.7	0.81	0.19
35	NC State	Southern	1-0-0	1	22.1	7	2.53	0.86	0.14
36	Saint Mary's (CA)	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	21.98	4	2.26	0.61	0.39
37	Tennessee	SEC	1-0-0	1	21.85	4	1.25	0.71	0.29
38	Wake Forest	Southern	1-0-0	1	21.74	6	0.47	0.84	0.16
39	Columbia	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	21.57	6	-1.25	0.81	0.19
40	Dartmouth	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	21.5	3	2.87	1	0
41	Virginia	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	21.42	71	-10	1	0
42	San Francisco	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	21.34	12	-1.25	0.81	0.19
43	Kansas	Big 6	1-0-1	0.5	21.25	4	-0.19	1.51	-0.51
44	Maryland	Southern	1-0-0	1	21.24	54	-10	1	0
45	LSU	SEC	1-0-0	1	21.12	1	1.01	0.59	0.41
46	Utah State	Mountain State	1-0-0	1	21.06	47	-10	1	0
47	Michigan State	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	20.89	42	-10	1	0
48	Davidson	Southern	1-0-0	1	20.78	74	-10	1	0
49	Vanderbilt	SEC	1-0-0	1	20.55	35	-10	1	0
50	Syracuse	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	20.53	35	-10	0.99	0.01
51	South Carolina	Southern	1-0-0	1	20.33	21	-10	1	0
52	Harvard	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	19.93	7	-10	1	0
53	Brown	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	19.84	8	-10	0.88	0.12
54	Auburn	SEC	1-0-0	1	19	1	-10	0.55	0.45
55	Oregon	Pacific	1-0-0	1	18.88	1	-10	0.59	0.41
56	The Citadel	Southern	1-0-0	1	18.48	1	-10	0.59	0.41
57	New Mexico State	Border	2-1-0	0.67	18.17	1	2.16	1.59	0.41
58	Northern Arizona	Border	2-1-0	0.67	17.76	11	2.29	2.87	-0.87
59	Texas A&M	Southwest	1-1-0	0.5	16.62	20.5	6.4	1.98	-0.98
60	William & Mary	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	15.75	25.5	-3.56	1.96	-0.96
61	Clemson	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	15.07	8	-3.54	1.42	-0.42
62	Illinois	Western	1-1-0	0.5	14.97	3	0.47	1.2	-0.2
63	Baylor	Southwest	1-1-0	0.5	14.49	5.5	-4.7	1.4	-0.4
64	BYU	Mountain State	1-1-0	0.5	13.79	5	-5.62	1.54	-0.54
65	New Mexico	Border	1-1-0	0.5	12.94	-18.5	7.58	0.22	0.78
66	Purdue	Western	1-1-0	0.5	12.79	-5	5.26	0.41	0.59
67	Saint Louis	Missouri Valley	1-1-0	0.5	12.79	-1	-5.16	0.91	0.09
68	Colorado	Mountain State	1-1-0	0.5	12.62	-35	13.65	0.02	0.98
69	Colorado State	Mountain State	1-1-0	0.5	12.5	-1	-5.62	0.91	0.09
70	Pittsburgh	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	11.64	0	22.2	1	0
71	Furman	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	11.46	6	7.1	1.42	-0.42
72	West Virginia	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	11.34	-10	-5.91	0.32	0.68
73	Marquette	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	10.7	-4	24.01	0.69	0.31
74	Ole Miss	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	9.6	-4	12.25	0.61	0.39
75	Villanova	FBS Independents	1-2-0	0.33	9.17	-2.67	11.13	1.18	-0.18
76	Temple	FBS Independents	0-0-1	0	0.48	0	2.31	0.5	-0.5
77	Ohio State	Western	0-0-1	0	0.46	0	-1.44	0.5	-0.5
78	Pennsylvania	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	0.46	0	0	0	0
79	Penn State	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	0.39	0	0	0	0
80	SMU	Southwest	0-0-1	0	0.39	0	2.85	0.5	-0.5
81	Colgate	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	0.28	0	0	0	0
82	North Carolina	Southern	0-0-1	0	0.15	0	0.36	0.5	-0.5
83	Princeton	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	0.14	0	0	0	0
84	New York University	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	0.12	0	0	0	0
85	Virginia Tech	Southern	0-0-1	0	0.06	0	0.91	0.5	-0.5
86	Fordham	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	-0.21	0	0	0	0
87	George Washington	Southern	0-0-0	0	-0.21	0	0	0	0
88	Georgetown	FBS Independents	0-0-0	0	-0.21	0	0	0	0
89	Washington and Lee	Southern	0-0-0	0	-0.21	0	0	0	0
90	Rice	Southwest	0-1-0	0	-0.32	-1	2.77	0.41	-0.41
91	Holy Cross	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-0.49	-3	0.07	0	0
92	Tulane	SEC	0-1-0	0	-0.54	-1	24.2	0.41	-0.41
93	Washington	Pacific	0-1-0	0	-0.77	-4	2.65	0.39	-0.39
94	Washington State	Pacific	0-1-0	0	-0.93	-6	2.04	0.19	-0.19
95	Georgia Tech	SEC	0-1-0	0	-0.94	-4	2.99	0.29	-0.29
96	Florida	SEC	0-1-0	0	-0.99	-6	-1.39	0.19	-0.19
97	Duke	Southern	0-1-0	0	-1.04	-7	1.07	0.14	-0.14
98	Boston College	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.3	-6	1.83	0.16	-0.16
99	Indiana	Western	0-2-0	0	-1.57	-15	-3.73	0.03	-0.03
100	Rutgers	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.59	-6	2.73	0.19	-0.19
101	Lafayette	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.64	-12	-10	0.25	-0.25
102	UTEP	Border	0-1-0	0	-1.7	-5	22.35	0.05	-0.05
103	West Texas A&M	Border	0-2-0	0	-1.71	-7	6.4	0.53	-0.53
104	Santa Clara	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.88	-13	-10	0.08	-0.08
105	Nevada	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.97	-12	-1.25	0.19	-0.19
106	Oklahoma	Big 6	0-1-0	0	-2.1	-14	31.21	0.07	-0.07
107	Bucknell	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.14	-21	1.48	0	0
108	Iowa State	Big 6	0-2-0	0	-2.2	-19	13.28	0.11	-0.11
109	Kansas State	Big 6	0-1-0	0	-2.22	-14	19.2	0.07	-0.07
110	Nebraska	Big 6	0-1-0	0	-2.22	-27	1.62	0.02	-0.02
111	Chattanooga	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.23	-34	2.41	0.01	-0.01
112	Wichita State	Missouri Valley	0-2-0	0	-2.34	-20.5	8.24	0.07	-0.07
113	California	Pacific	0-1-0	0	-2.43	-21	25.83	0.04	-0.04
114	Merchant Marine Academy	FBS Independents	0-3-0	0	-2.49	-24.67	3.24	0.01	-0.01
115	Oregon State	Pacific	0-1-0	0	-2.5	-43	2.14	0.01	-0.01
116	Arizona State	Border	0-1-1	0	-2.55	-33.5	-5.62	0.01	-0.01
117	Denver	Mountain State	0-2-0	0	-2.56	-20.5	13.94	0.13	-0.13
118	Portland	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.58	-41	-10	0.03	-0.03
119	Idaho	Pacific	0-1-0	0	-2.62	-45	-1.25	0	0
120	Missouri	Big 6	0-1-1	0	-2.66	-21	14.64	0.06	-0.06