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SATURDAY FOOTBALL
THE COMPUTER POLL
THE POLL / Big Ten / 2026

NORTHWESTERN.

Every game. Every component. Every point accounted for.

COMPUTER RANK
#34
AP RANK
NR
RECORD
3–1
COMPUTER SCORE
71.09
Northwestern is #34 with a 3–1 record. Results contributes 18.75 points to its 71.09 total. Its most valuable win is over Penn State (34–13), worth 2.08 résumé units. Road / neutral is its lowest component at 23.0/100. The next team, Arizona, scores 69.85.

THE SCORE, DISASSEMBLED.

v1.0.0
Results · 25%
75.0 / 100
+18.750 points
Quality wins · 20%
69.3 / 100
+13.869 points
Strength of schedule · 20%
81.0 / 100
+16.204 points
Strength of record · 15%
66.4 / 100
+9.964 points
Road / neutral · 8%
23.0 / 100
+1.839 points
Capped dominance · 7%
86.9 / 100
+6.080 points
Loss quality · 5%
87.6 / 100
+4.380 points

SUM OF WEIGHTED CONTRIBUTIONS = 71.08576642
Adjusted OWP: 0.692308 · OOWP: 0.449561 · Raw SOS: 0.619484

THE SEASON SO FAR.

WEEKLY COMPUTER RANK

Movement history appears after the next published week.

THE RECEIPTS.

WKOPPONENTSITERESULTOPP. QUALITYWIN VALUELOSS PENALTY
3ColoradohomeW 41–70.4841+1.8051—
1South Dakota StateFCShomeW 34–180.0000+1.1524—
4IndianaRoadL 23–290.8541—1.1808
5Penn StatehomeW 34–130.7009+2.0761—

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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