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SATURDAY FOOTBALL
THE COMPUTER POLL
THE POLL / FBS Independents / 2026

NOTRE DAME.

Every game. Every component. Every point accounted for.

COMPUTER RANK
#4
AP RANK
#3
RECORD
5–0
COMPUTER SCORE
94.88
Notre Dame is #4 with a 5–0 record. Results contributes 25.00 points to its 94.88 total. Its most valuable win is over Wisconsin (41–13), worth 2.37 résumé units. Strength of schedule is its lowest component at 82.5/100. The next team, Pittsburgh, scores 92.96.

THE SCORE, DISASSEMBLED.

v1.0.0
Results · 25%
100.0 / 100
+25.000 points
Quality wins · 20%
97.8 / 100
+19.562 points
Strength of schedule · 20%
82.5 / 100
+16.496 points
Strength of record · 15%
98.5 / 100
+14.781 points
Road / neutral · 8%
90.5 / 100
+7.241 points
Capped dominance · 7%
97.1 / 100
+6.796 points
Loss quality · 5%
100.0 / 100
+5.000 points

SUM OF WEIGHTED CONTRIBUTIONS = 94.87591241
Adjusted OWP: 0.578947 · OOWP: 0.719015 · Raw SOS: 0.620968

THE SEASON SO FAR.

WEEKLY COMPUTER RANK

Movement history appears after the next published week.

THE RECEIPTS.

WKOPPONENTSITERESULTOPP. QUALITYWIN VALUELOSS PENALTY
5North CarolinaRoadW 37–260.6014+2.0565—
1WisconsinneutralW 41–130.8555+2.3694—
3Michigan StatehomeW 27–100.5056+1.7939—
4PurdueRoadW 49–100.4852+2.0065—
2RicehomeW 52–00.2965+1.5707—

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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