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SATURDAY FOOTBALL
THE COMPUTER POLL
THE POLL / Sun Belt / 2026

JAMES MADISON.

Every game. Every component. Every point accounted for.

COMPUTER RANK
#7
AP RANK
NR
RECORD
5–0
COMPUTER SCORE
88.61
James Madison is #7 with a 5–0 record. Results contributes 25.00 points to its 88.61 total. Its most valuable win is over Liberty (20–13), worth 2.10 résumé units. Strength of schedule is its lowest component at 57.7/100. The next team, UCLA, scores 89.26. The published tiebreak rules determine this order.

THE SCORE, DISASSEMBLED.

v1.0.0
Results · 25%
100.0 / 100
+25.000 points
Quality wins · 20%
93.4 / 100
+18.686 points
Strength of schedule · 20%
57.7 / 100
+11.533 points
Strength of record · 15%
94.9 / 100
+14.234 points
Road / neutral · 8%
95.3 / 100
+7.620 points
Capped dominance · 7%
93.4 / 100
+6.540 points
Loss quality · 5%
100.0 / 100
+5.000 points

SUM OF WEIGHTED CONTRIBUTIONS = 88.61313869
Adjusted OWP: 0.588235 · OOWP: 0.494118 · Raw SOS: 0.560000

THE SEASON SO FAR.

WEEKLY COMPUTER RANK

Movement history appears after the next published week.

THE RECEIPTS.

WKOPPONENTSITERESULTOPP. QUALITYWIN VALUELOSS PENALTY
3San Diego StateRoadW 26–130.4740+1.9163—
2WagnerFCShomeW 87–30.0000+1.2000—
1LibertyhomeW 20–130.8235+2.0961—
4Old DominionRoadW 46–200.2931+1.7663—
5MarshallhomeW 45–170.6545+2.0181—

Résumé units feed the quality-win and loss components before percentile normalization. They are not direct additions to the final score.

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