1980 W3 CORS rankings

Last updated: 2026-10-19T14:20:29.256623+00:00

rank	school	conference	record	win_pct	cors	mov	sos	expected_wins	wins_vs_expected
1	South Carolina	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	29.14	55	10.77	2	0
2	Georgia	SEC	2-0-0	1	28.56	21.5	12.72	1.92	0.08
3	North Carolina	ACC	2-0-0	1	28.26	14	11.02	1.83	0.17
4	Western Michigan	Mid-American	2-0-0	1	28.19	25.5	9.12	1.93	0.07
5	West Virginia	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	27.99	21	10.57	1.61	0.39
6	Missouri	Big 8	1-0-0	1	27.58	31	24.45	0.93	0.07
7	Oklahoma	Big 8	1-0-0	1	27.49	22	24.91	0.97	0.03
8	Baylor	Southwest	1-0-0	1	27.32	35	22.73	0.99	0.01
9	SMU	Southwest	1-0-0	1	27.09	19	24.84	0.94	0.06
10	Louisiana	Southland	2-0-0	1	27.05	4	12.32	1.25	0.75
11	Florida State	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	26.84	34	-0.28	2	0
12	Texas	Southwest	1-0-0	1	26.79	6	0.51	0.67	0.33
13	Penn State	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	26.64	44	-1.61	0.98	0.02
14	App State	Southern	2-0-0	1	26.58	15.5	5.36	1.8	0.2
15	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	26.37	21	-0.31	0.94	0.06
16	NC State	ACC	1-0-0	1	26.31	42	-2.32	1	0
17	Alabama	SEC	1-0-0	1	26.27	23	-1.44	0.99	0.01
18	Army	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	26.17	21	20.8	0.96	0.04
19	Mississippi State	SEC	2-0-0	1	26.09	23.5	-0.7	1.91	0.09
20	Virginia Tech	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	26.08	18.5	0.21	1.91	0.09
21	Maryland	ACC	2-0-0	1	25.94	14.5	0	1.94	0.06
22	Stanford	Pac-10	2-0-0	1	25.63	7.5	0.44	1.37	0.63
23	Illinois	Big Ten	2-0-0	1	25.55	14.5	-0.62	1.71	0.29
24	Central Michigan	Mid-American	2-0-0	1	25.42	2.5	1.54	1.18	0.82
25	Southern Miss	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	25.4	3	1.39	0.61	0.39
26	McNeese	Southland	2-0-0	1	25.36	3	1.42	1.19	0.81
27	Miami	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	25.29	31.5	-5.44	1.98	0.02
28	Richmond	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	25.1	8.5	-0.12	1.56	0.44
29	Indiana State	Missouri Valley	1-0-0	1	24.86	3	0	0.65	0.35
30	Cal State Fullerton	PCAA	2-0-0	1	24.54	10.5	-5.54	1.41	0.59
31	Marshall	Southern	2-0-0	1	24.48	18.5	-4.98	1.9	0.1
32	San José State	PCAA	2-0-0	1	24.36	9.5	-4.74	1.43	0.57
33	Chattanooga	Southern	2-0-0	1	23.54	14	-10	1.78	0.22
34	Nebraska	Big 8	1-0-0	1	23	46	-0.8	0.99	0.01
35	UCLA	Pac-10	1-0-0	1	22.94	42	0.45	0.96	0.04
36	Rutgers	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	22.9	18	2.59	0.99	0.01
37	Arizona State	Pac-10	1-0-0	1	22.86	16	2.72	0.87	0.13
38	Minnesota	Big Ten	1-0-0	1	22.86	24	2.02	0.91	0.09
39	Washington	Pac-10	1-0-0	1	22.75	43	-1.63	0.99	0.01
40	Florida	SEC	1-0-0	1	22.73	28	2.04	0.94	0.06
41	Iowa State	Big 8	1-0-0	1	22.71	35	0.72	0.99	0.01
42	UNLV	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	22.52	29	-1.09	0.98	0.02
43	Ohio State	Big Ten	1-0-0	1	22.48	10	1.72	0.72	0.28
44	Clemson	ACC	1-0-0	1	22.35	16	-0.17	0.99	0.01
45	Pittsburgh	FBS Independents	1-0-0	1	22.26	8	1.37	0.88	0.12
46	Iowa	Big Ten	1-0-0	1	22.25	9	1.96	0.88	0.12
47	Wyoming	Western Athletic	1-0-0	1	22.2	20	-0.07	0.93	0.07
48	Tulsa	Missouri Valley	1-0-0	1	21.92	18	-1.62	0.89	0.11
49	USC	Pac-10	1-0-0	1	21.75	3	1.54	0.6	0.4
50	Virginia	ACC	1-0-0	1	21.7	3	1.79	0.84	0.16
51	Michigan	Big Ten	1-0-0	1	21.42	7	-2.48	0.78	0.22
52	Auburn	SEC	1-0-0	1	21.4	3	0.4	0.7	0.3
53	Hawai'i	Western Athletic	1-0-0	1	20.99	41	-10	1	0
54	Arkansas State	Southland	1-0-0	1	20.36	20	-10	0.94	0.06
55	East Carolina	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	16.86	9.5	9.92	1.46	-0.46
56	Texas Tech	Southwest	1-1-0	0.5	16.81	11	11.63	1.77	-0.77
57	Northern Illinois	Mid-American	1-1-0	0.5	14.88	3	0.2	1.23	-0.23
58	The Citadel	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	14.76	2	5.81	1.14	-0.14
59	Illinois State	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	14.4	0.5	7.41	1.03	-0.03
60	North Texas	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	13.73	-1	0.9	0.94	0.06
61	Ole Miss	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	13.46	25.5	11.13	1.83	-0.83
62	BYU	Western Athletic	1-1-0	0.5	13.29	10	13.03	1.48	-0.48
63	Colorado State	Western Athletic	1-1-0	0.5	13.05	-8	10.56	0.65	0.35
64	Lamar	Southland	1-1-0	0.5	12.98	-1	-3.92	0.95	0.05
65	Drake	Missouri Valley	1-1-0	0.5	12.81	19.5	6.69	1.93	-0.93
66	Kentucky	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	12.8	-7.5	1.77	0.48	0.52
67	Texas A&M	Southwest	1-1-0	0.5	12.7	-19.5	11.76	0.17	0.83
68	Wichita State	Missouri Valley	1-1-0	0.5	12.39	-28	12.49	0.16	0.84
69	New Mexico	Western Athletic	1-1-0	0.5	12.36	-13.5	2.02	0.46	0.54
70	LSU	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	12.21	2.5	13.56	1.31	-0.31
71	Western Carolina	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	12.1	-7	-4.92	0.53	0.47
72	Holy Cross	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	11.65	-7	-5.01	0.55	0.45
73	Ball State	Mid-American	1-1-0	0.5	11.51	-1.5	24.52	0.9	0.1
74	VMI	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	11.26	0.5	10.57	1.04	-0.04
75	New Mexico State	Missouri Valley	1-1-0	0.5	11.05	0.5	9.77	1.07	-0.07
76	Utah State	PCAA	1-1-0	0.5	10.76	0	7.46	1	0
77	West Texas A&M	Missouri Valley	1-1-0	0.5	10.76	-1	13.03	0.94	0.06
78	Furman	Southern	1-1-0	0.5	10.16	-0.5	7.82	0.97	0.03
79	Purdue	Big Ten	1-1-0	0.5	9.44	-7.5	13.13	0.45	0.55
80	Southern Illinois	Missouri Valley	1-1-0	0.5	8.98	-7.5	6.67	0.7	0.3
81	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	1-1-0	0.5	8.42	-17.5	12.29	0.14	0.86
82	Pacific	PCAA	1-1-0	0.5	8.41	-13	7.58	0.3	0.7
83	Yale	Ivy	0-0-0	0	0.43	0	0	0	0
84	Brown	Ivy	0-0-0	0	0.36	0	0	0	0
85	Cornell	Ivy	0-0-0	0	0.33	0	0	0	0
86	Dartmouth	Ivy	0-0-0	0	0.28	0	0	0	0
87	Arizona	Pac-10	0-0-0	0	0.26	0	0	0	0
88	Princeton	Ivy	0-0-0	0	0.26	0	0	0	0
89	Harvard	Ivy	0-0-0	0	0.18	0	0	0	0
90	Kansas	Big 8	0-0-1	0	0.04	0	-0.5	0.5	-0.5
91	Columbia	Ivy	0-0-0	0	-0.01	0	0	0	0
92	Pennsylvania	Ivy	0-0-0	0	-0.01	0	0	0	0
93	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	0-1-0	0	-0.22	-1	25.62	0.46	-0.46
94	Oklahoma State	Big 8	0-1-0	0	-0.28	-1	0.93	0.47	-0.47
95	Tennessee	SEC	0-2-0	0	-0.6	-2	13.31	0.86	-0.86
96	Navy	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-0.69	-3	2.45	0.16	-0.16
97	Toledo	Mid-American	0-1-0	0	-0.86	-3	24.83	0.4	-0.4
98	TCU	Southwest	0-1-0	0	-0.91	-3	2.16	0.3	-0.3
99	Michigan State	Big Ten	0-1-0	0	-0.95	-3	22.59	0.4	-0.4
100	Bowling Green	Mid-American	0-2-0	0	-0.98	-2.5	9.43	0.83	-0.83
101	Tulane	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-1.13	-4	24.74	0.71	-0.71
102	Wisconsin	Big Ten	0-1-0	0	-1.25	-6	-0.31	0.16	-0.16
103	Indiana	Big Ten	0-1-0	0	-1.3	-9	1.65	0.12	-0.12
104	Boston College	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.34	-8	2.83	0.12	-0.12
105	Washington State	Pac-10	0-1-0	0	-1.4	-5	21.75	0.4	-0.4
106	Syracuse	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.42	-10	2.94	0.28	-0.28
107	Oregon	Pac-10	0-1-1	0	-1.46	-5	12.3	0.69	-0.69
108	Houston	Southwest	0-1-0	0	-1.55	-16	2.21	0.13	-0.13
109	Arkansas	Southwest	0-1-0	0	-1.65	-6	32.07	0.33	-0.33
110	Temple	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-1.65	-18	2.12	0.01	-0.01
111	Texas-Arlington	Southland	0-2-0	0	-1.81	-12	7.42	0.53	-0.53
112	Long Beach State	PCAA	0-1-0	0	-1.82	-7	23.41	0.2	-0.2
113	Villanova	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-1.92	-9	22.77	0.16	-0.16
114	Ohio	Mid-American	0-1-0	0	-1.93	-24	1.39	0.09	-0.09
115	Kent State	Mid-American	0-1-0	0	-1.95	-10	20.24	0.11	-0.11
116	East Tennessee State	Southern	0-2-0	0	-1.98	-17.5	6.92	0.12	-0.12
117	California	Pac-10	0-1-0	0	-2	-28	-0.03	0.06	-0.06
118	San Diego State	Western Athletic	0-1-0	0	-2	-24	1.76	0.06	-0.06
119	Wake Forest	ACC	0-1-0	0	-2.03	-9	23.84	0.12	-0.12
120	Rice	Southwest	0-1-0	0	-2.04	-16	2.48	0.01	-0.01
121	Kansas State	Big 8	0-1-0	0	-2.05	-21	0.32	0	0
122	Oregon State	Pac-10	0-1-0	0	-2.14	-20	0.58	0.07	-0.07
123	UL Monroe	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.38	-35	0.48	0.01	-0.01
124	Cincinnati	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-2.44	-16	11.93	0.4	-0.4
125	Louisiana Tech	Southland	0-1-0	0	-2.52	-20	24	0.08	-0.08
126	Utah	Western Athletic	0-2-0	0	-2.52	-33.5	-3.55	0.04	-0.04
127	UTEP	Western Athletic	0-2-0	0	-2.54	-15.5	11.36	0.07	-0.07
128	Colorado	Big 8	0-1-0	0	-2.57	-42	1.44	0.04	-0.04
129	Fresno State	PCAA	0-2-0	0	-2.59	-21.5	12.79	0.23	-0.23
130	Colgate	FBS Independents	0-1-1	0	-2.6	-22	7.95	0.18	-0.18
131	Northwestern	Big Ten	0-2-0	0	-2.62	-16.5	12.61	0.17	-0.17
132	Vanderbilt	SEC	0-1-0	0	-2.74	-25	24.19	0.02	-0.02
133	William & Mary	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-2.82	-22.5	12.56	0.03	-0.03
134	Air Force	Western Athletic	0-2-0	0	-2.86	-27.5	12.71	0.06	-0.06
135	Georgia Tech	FBS Independents	0-1-0	0	-2.95	-23	26.05	0.01	-0.01
136	Duke	ACC	0-1-0	0	-3.11	-25	25.28	0.05	-0.05
137	Louisville	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-3.13	-33	25.06	0.02	-0.02
138	Memphis	FBS Independents	0-2-0	0	-3.13	-40.5	11.96	0.02	-0.02