| 2026 FCS Strength of Schedule | FCS Strength of Schedule updated by Wednesday |
Updated 9/23/26 |
| Strength of Schedule | ||||
| Rank | Team | Rank | Team | |
| 1 | Portland St | 65 | Rhode Island | |
| 2 | Utah Tech | 66 | North Carolina A&T | |
| 3 | Duquesne | 67 | Delaware St | |
| 4 | Central Conn St | 68 | Norfolk St | |
| 5 | Abilene Christian | 69 | South Dakota St | |
| 6 | Prairie View A&M | 70 | Cal Poly | |
| 7 | Towson | 71 | Southern Illinois | |
| 8 | Idaho | 72 | Idaho St | |
| 9 | Lamar | 73 | Mercer | |
| 10 | Eastern Illinois | 74 | Wagner | |
| 11 | Dartmouth | 75 | McNeese St | |
| 12 | Eastern Washington | 76 | Indiana St | |
| 13 | Long Island | 77 | Austin Peay | |
| 14 | Howard | 78 | Montana St | |
| 15 | West Florida | 79 | Lafayette | |
| 16 | Merrimack | 80 | East Tenn St | |
| 17 | Northern Arizona | 81 | Bryant | |
| 18 | San Diego | 82 | Stonehill | |
| 19 | West Georgia | 83 | Alcorn St | |
| 20 | Youngstown St | 84 | UTRGV | |
| 21 | Holy Cross | 85 | Houston Christian | |
| 22 | Fordham | 86 | Richmond | |
| 23 | Campbell | 87 | Bucknell | |
| 24 | Maine | 88 | Colgate | |
| 25 | Gardner-Webb | 89 | New Haven | |
| 26 | Mercyhurst | 90 | Harvard | |
| 27 | Texas Southern | 91 | Northwestern St | |
| 28 | Monmouth | 92 | Western Illinois | |
| 29 | South Dakota | 93 | Hampton | |
| 30 | Northern Iowa | 94 | Stetson | |
| 31 | East Texas A&M | 95 | Penn | |
| 32 | Central Arkansas | 95 | Princeton | |
| 33 | Southern Utah | 97 | Lehigh | |
| 34 | Nicholls St | 98 | Yale | |
| 35 | SE Missouri St | 99 | Morgan St | |
| 36 | Sacred Heart | 100 | Drake | |
| 37 | North Dakota | 101 | Charleston Southern | |
| 38 | Tarleton St | 102 | Columbia | |
| 38 | North Alabama | 103 | Illinois St | |
| 40 | Furman | 104 | Ark Pine Bluff | |
| 41 | SE Louisiana | 105 | Robert Morris | |
| 42 | SF Austin | 106 | Alabama St | |
| 43 | Georgetown | 107 | Incarnate Word | |
| 44 | Tennessee St | 108 | St Thomas | |
| 45 | Samford | 109 | Presbyterian | |
| 46 | The Citadel | 110 | Bethune-Cookman | |
| 47 | Weber St | 111 | NC Central | |
| 48 | Murray St | 112 | Miss Valley St | |
| 49 | Villanova | 113 | Chattanooga | |
| 50 | Albany | 114 | Valparaiso | |
| 51 | Montana | 115 | Brown | |
| 52 | Cornell | 116 | Marist | |
| 53 | New Hampshire | 117 | Elon | |
| 54 | Northern Colorado | 118 | Grambling St | |
| 55 | Florida A&M | 119 | Morehead St | |
| 56 | Stony Brook | 120 | Southern | |
| 57 | Eastern Kentucky | 121 | Butler | |
| 58 | Wofford | 122 | UT Martin | |
| 59 | Western Carolina | 123 | Alabama A&M | |
| 60 | VMI | 124 | South Carolina St | |
| 61 | UC Davis | 125 | Dayton | |
| 62 | William & Mary | 126 | Jackson St | |
| 63 | Lindenwood | 127 | Davidson | |
| 64 | Tennessee Tech | 128 | Chicago St |