| 2026 FCS Strength of Schedule | FCS Strength of Schedule updated by Wednesday |
Updated 11/4/26 |
| Strength of Schedule | ||||
| Rank | Team | Rank | Team | |
| 1 | Portland St | 65 | Prairie View A&M | |
| 2 | Utah Tech | 66 | Texas Southern | |
| 3 | Idaho | 67 | Northwestern St | |
| 4 | Northern Arizona | 68 | Wofford | |
| 5 | Northern Iowa | 69 | Tarleton St | |
| 6 | Murray St | 69 | North Alabama | |
| 7 | Eastern Washington | 71 | Stony Brook | |
| 8 | The Citadel | 72 | Georgetown | |
| 9 | Youngstown St | 73 | Mercer | |
| 10 | Eastern Illinois | 74 | Harvard | |
| 11 | South Dakota | 75 | Chattanooga | |
| 12 | North Dakota | 76 | East Tenn St | |
| 13 | Indiana St | 77 | Austin Peay | |
| 14 | Abilene Christian | 78 | Sacred Heart | |
| 15 | Southern Utah | 79 | Wagner | |
| 16 | Weber St | 80 | Illinois St | |
| 17 | Towson | 81 | Rhode Island | |
| 18 | Central Arkansas | 82 | Stonehill | |
| 19 | Gardner-Webb | 83 | Bryant | |
| 20 | Southern Illinois | 84 | Western Illinois | |
| 21 | Montana | 85 | Hampton | |
| 22 | Fordham | 86 | Lindenwood | |
| 23 | Houston Christian | 87 | New Haven | |
| 24 | Northern Colorado | 88 | Richmond | |
| 25 | Western Carolina | 89 | Colgate | |
| 26 | South Dakota St | 90 | Brown | |
| 27 | VMI | 91 | Penn | |
| 28 | UC Davis | 91 | Princeton | |
| 29 | SE Louisiana | 93 | Duquesne | |
| 30 | Cal Poly | 94 | Lafayette | |
| 31 | Long Island | 95 | Central Conn St | |
| 32 | East Texas A&M | 96 | Florida A&M | |
| 33 | Lamar | 97 | North Carolina A&T | |
| 34 | West Georgia | 98 | Yale | |
| 35 | Nicholls St | 99 | Delaware St | |
| 36 | Mercyhurst | 100 | NC Central | |
| 37 | Maine | 101 | Columbia | |
| 38 | Dartmouth | 102 | Morgan St | |
| 39 | Holy Cross | 103 | Lehigh | |
| 40 | Eastern Kentucky | 104 | Robert Morris | |
| 41 | Samford | 105 | Elon | |
| 42 | Furman | 106 | San Diego | |
| 43 | McNeese St | 107 | Southern | |
| 44 | William & Mary | 108 | Bethune-Cookman | |
| 45 | SE Missouri St | 109 | Grambling St | |
| 46 | UT Martin | 110 | Miss Valley St | |
| 47 | Albany | 111 | Norfolk St | |
| 48 | Charleston Southern | 112 | Ark Pine Bluff | |
| 49 | Howard | 113 | Alabama St | |
| 50 | Montana St | 114 | Stetson | |
| 51 | UTRGV | 115 | South Carolina St | |
| 52 | Campbell | 116 | Marist | |
| 53 | Tennessee St | 117 | Alcorn St | |
| 54 | Idaho St | 118 | St Thomas | |
| 55 | Incarnate Word | 119 | Drake | |
| 56 | Bucknell | 120 | Presbyterian | |
| 57 | Cornell | 121 | Alabama A&M | |
| 58 | West Florida | 122 | Jackson St | |
| 59 | Merrimack | 123 | Chicago St | |
| 60 | Monmouth | 124 | Valparaiso | |
| 61 | Tennessee Tech | 125 | Butler | |
| 62 | Villanova | 126 | Davidson | |
| 63 | SF Austin | 127 | Morehead St | |
| 64 | New Hampshire | 128 | Dayton |