1985 W4 CORS rankings

Last updated: 2026-10-19T14:20:30.243602+00:00

rank	school	conference	record	win_pct	cors	mov	sos	expected_wins	wins_vs_expected
1	Ohio State	Big Ten	2-0-0	1	29.17	13	21.09	1.76	0.24
2	Fresno State	PCAA	2-0-0	1	29.11	14.5	20.16	1.66	0.34
3	Central Michigan	Mid-American	1-0-0	1	28.15	17	14.65	0.91	0.09
4	Wisconsin	Big Ten	2-0-0	1	27.83	12	13.91	1.51	0.49
5	Iowa	Big Ten	2-0-0	1	27.73	43	9.73	1.96	0.04
6	Alabama	SEC	3-0-0	1	27.63	17.33	11.78	2.68	0.32
7	UCLA	Pac-10	2-0-1	0.67	27.61	7	14.46	1.97	0.03
8	LSU	SEC	2-0-0	1	27.39	12	12.12	1.8	0.2
9	Kansas	Big 8	3-0-0	1	27.17	19.67	7.56	2.56	0.44
10	Michigan	Big Ten	2-0-0	1	27.15	19.5	11.82	1.91	0.09
11	Auburn	SEC	2-0-0	1	27.11	26.5	6.47	1.87	0.13
12	Iowa State	Big 8	2-0-0	1	26.79	5	12.65	1.45	0.55
13	Florida State	FBS Independents	3-0-0	1	26.61	13	7.31	2.57	0.43
14	Penn State	FBS Independents	3-0-0	1	26.48	3.67	12.47	1.83	1.17
15	Arizona	Pac-10	3-0-0	1	26.12	8	6.42	2.34	0.66
16	Bowling Green	Mid-American	3-0-0	1	26.08	11	5.78	2.25	0.75
17	Arkansas	Southwest	2-0-0	1	26.08	14.5	7.48	1.8	0.2
18	Texas Tech	Southwest	3-0-0	1	26.04	8.67	5.89	2.14	0.86
19	Minnesota	Big Ten	2-0-0	1	25.89	29.5	1.25	1.85	0.15
20	Florida	SEC	1-0-1	0.5	25.83	6	6.62	1.25	-0.25
21	Virginia	ACC	2-0-0	1	25.78	18	5.91	1.75	0.25
22	Air Force	Western Athletic	3-0-0	1	25.45	42	-2.86	2.94	0.06
23	Mississippi State	SEC	3-0-0	1	25.11	12.67	1.13	2.53	0.47
24	Army	FBS Independents	2-0-0	1	24.84	23	-1.19	1.87	0.13
25	SMU	Southwest	1-0-0	1	24.32	12	-3.13	0.73	0.27
26	TCU	Southwest	2-0-0	1	23.93	9.5	-2.23	1.47	0.53
27	Utah	Western Athletic	3-0-0	1	23.92	4	-0.74	1.74	1.26
28	Indiana	Big Ten	2-0-0	1	23.85	8	-1.89	1.26	0.74
29	Oklahoma State	Big 8	2-0-0	1	23.45	7.5	-6.24	1.49	0.51
30	Illinois State	Missouri Valley	2-0-1	0.67	22.6	9	-10	2.55	-0.55
31	Texas	Southwest	1-0-0	1	21	4	-0.85	0.62	0.38
32	BYU	Western Athletic	3-1-0	0.75	20.41	10.25	7.9	3.01	-0.01
33	Maryland	ACC	2-1-0	0.67	19.71	14.67	20.16	2.64	-0.64
34	Oregon	Pac-10	2-1-0	0.67	19.35	5.33	20.74	1.79	0.21
35	West Virginia	FBS Independents	2-1-0	0.67	19.25	4.33	9.07	1.85	0.15
36	Cincinnati	FBS Independents	3-1-0	0.75	18.97	1.5	1.23	2.14	0.86
37	Duke	ACC	2-1-0	0.67	18.92	14	11.72	2.43	-0.43
38	Oregon State	Pac-10	2-1-0	0.67	18.81	3	9.71	1.69	0.31
39	East Carolina	FBS Independents	2-1-0	0.67	18.54	7.67	4.19	2.16	-0.16
40	Baylor	Southwest	2-1-0	0.67	18.43	8.33	11.63	2.19	-0.19
41	Georgia	SEC	2-1-0	0.67	18.3	2	21.23	1.71	0.29
42	Colorado	Big 8	2-1-0	0.67	18.11	-2	17.99	1.32	0.68
43	South Carolina	FBS Independents	2-1-0	0.67	17.84	5	0.72	1.87	0.13
44	Wake Forest	ACC	2-1-0	0.67	17.11	11.33	-7.44	2.4	-0.4
45	Stanford	Pac-10	1-1-0	0.5	15.89	8.5	11.67	1.32	-0.32
46	Utah State	PCAA	2-1-0	0.67	15.82	-0.67	10.32	1.44	0.56
47	USC	Pac-10	1-1-0	0.5	15.11	1.5	13.16	1.11	-0.11
48	Memphis	FBS Independents	1-1-2	0.25	14.89	5.5	3.33	2.79	-1.79
49	San Diego State	Western Athletic	1-1-0	0.5	14.46	1	12.87	1.05	-0.05
50	Miami	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	14.33	8	11.81	1.29	-0.29
51	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	1-1-0	0.5	13.64	0	11.77	1	0
52	New Mexico	Western Athletic	1-1-0	0.5	13.62	3	12.13	1.11	-0.11
53	Nebraska	Big 8	1-1-0	0.5	13.55	11.5	18.86	1.48	-0.48
54	Arizona State	Pac-10	1-1-0	0.5	13.31	9	18.43	1.8	-0.8
55	Georgia Tech	ACC	1-1-0	0.5	13.23	-0.5	9.21	0.97	0.03
56	Notre Dame	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	13.2	4.5	22.19	1.3	-0.3
57	Clemson	ACC	1-1-0	0.5	12.32	-2	5.13	0.87	0.13
58	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	1-1-0	0.5	12.22	0.5	-10	1.03	-0.03
59	Purdue	Big Ten	1-1-0	0.5	12.14	9	5.91	1.35	-0.35
60	Syracuse	FBS Independents	1-1-0	0.5	11.83	3.5	11.35	1.24	-0.24
61	Michigan State	Big Ten	1-1-0	0.5	11.56	-4	-1.24	0.65	0.35
62	North Carolina	ACC	1-1-0	0.5	11.47	-4	12.78	0.75	0.25
63	Kentucky	SEC	1-1-0	0.5	11.19	0.5	11.51	1.03	-0.03
64	Texas A&M	Southwest	1-1-0	0.5	10.78	0.5	8.37	1.03	-0.03
65	Southern Miss	FBS Independents	1-2-0	0.33	10.77	4.67	14.35	1.91	-0.91
66	Boston College	FBS Independents	2-2-0	0.5	10.52	-5.5	11.9	1.46	0.54
67	Ole Miss	SEC	1-1-1	0.33	10.48	-1	12.68	1.4	-0.4
68	Toledo	Mid-American	1-1-0	0.5	10.32	-3	19.79	0.8	0.2
69	Northwestern	Big Ten	1-1-0	0.5	10.05	-9.5	7.87	0.6	0.4
70	UNLV	PCAA	1-2-0	0.33	10.03	1.67	14.65	1.64	-0.64
71	Drake	Missouri Valley	2-2-0	0.5	9.7	-6.25	4.07	1.37	0.63
72	California	Pac-10	1-3-0	0.25	8.63	4.25	17.34	2.42	-1.42
73	Pittsburgh	FBS Independents	1-2-0	0.33	7.97	-3	11.11	1.25	-0.25
74	Colorado State	Western Athletic	1-2-0	0.33	7.84	-3.33	17.05	1.2	-0.2
75	Tulsa	Missouri Valley	1-2-0	0.33	7.83	-7	15.65	0.89	0.11
76	Southern Illinois	Missouri Valley	1-3-0	0.25	7.65	5.75	-0.79	2.49	-1.49
77	Pacific	PCAA	1-2-0	0.33	7.56	-4	5.09	1.18	-0.18
78	Vanderbilt	SEC	1-2-0	0.33	7.36	-7.33	14.8	0.78	0.22
79	Northern Illinois	Mid-American	1-2-0	0.33	7.27	-10.67	16.61	0.75	0.25
80	Wichita State	Missouri Valley	1-2-0	0.33	7.27	-5	7.48	1.01	-0.01
81	Illinois	Big Ten	1-2-0	0.33	6.7	-11.33	11.91	0.79	0.21
82	Indiana State	Missouri Valley	1-2-0	0.33	6.28	-14	2.95	0.55	0.45
83	West Texas A&M	Missouri Valley	1-2-0	0.33	5.91	-5	-10	0.96	0.04
84	Washington State	Pac-10	1-3-0	0.25	5.78	-3.5	19.74	1.7	-0.7
85	NC State	ACC	1-2-0	0.33	5.76	-8.67	23.38	0.83	0.17
86	Long Beach State	PCAA	1-2-0	0.33	5.49	-6.33	11.25	1.05	-0.05
87	Washington	Pac-10	1-2-0	0.33	5.39	-8.33	14.64	0.82	0.18
88	Wyoming	Western Athletic	1-2-0	0.33	4.93	-13.33	13.82	0.65	0.35
89	Louisville	FBS Independents	1-2-0	0.33	4.88	-14.33	13.23	0.68	0.32
90	New Mexico State	PCAA	1-2-0	0.33	4.77	-11.33	5.37	0.7	0.3
91	San José State	PCAA	1-3-0	0.25	4.69	-8.75	11.94	1.27	-0.27
92	Louisiana	FBS Independents	1-3-0	0.25	2.8	-18.25	8.62	0.59	0.41
93	Oklahoma	Big 8	0-0-0	0	0.06	0	0	0	0
94	Tennessee	SEC	0-0-1	0	0.04	0	27.62	0.5	-0.5
95	Rutgers	FBS Independents	0-1-1	0	-0.88	-2	24.41	0.9	-0.9
96	Navy	FBS Independents	0-3-0	0	-1.07	-2.67	8.08	1.3	-1.3
97	Temple	FBS Independents	0-3-0	0	-1.07	-2.33	17.61	1.34	-1.34
98	Missouri	Big 8	0-2-0	0	-1.27	-4	4.57	0.79	-0.79
99	Kansas State	Big 8	0-3-0	0	-1.38	-4	8.09	1.03	-1.03
100	Hawai'i	Western Athletic	0-3-0	0	-1.4	-3.67	16.82	1.28	-1.28
101	Cal State Fullerton	PCAA	0-3-0	0	-2.05	-17	-7.72	0.39	-0.39
102	Virginia Tech	FBS Independents	0-3-0	0	-2.07	-10	12.21	0.69	-0.69
103	Houston	Southwest	0-2-0	0	-2.11	-12	6.63	0.46	-0.46
104	Kent State	Mid-American	0-2-0	0	-2.48	-29	-6.25	0	0
105	Ohio	Mid-American	0-2-0	0	-2.5	-22.5	3.29	0.12	-0.12
106	Ball State	Mid-American	0-3-0	0	-2.55	-16	15.47	0.37	-0.37
107	Tulane	FBS Independents	0-3-0	0	-2.62	-16	15.91	0.36	-0.36
108	UTEP	Western Athletic	0-4-0	0	-2.72	-18.25	15.31	0.65	-0.65
109	Western Michigan	Mid-American	0-2-0	0	-3.09	-29.5	18.12	0.01	-0.01
110	Rice	Southwest	0-2-0	0	-3.21	-35	20.06	0.15	-0.15