Thor Nystrom’s College Football Power Rankings for Every Team: Week 1 (2023)

College football is finally back, and we have real games with real stakes (and real lines to bet on). A couple of months ago, I released my initial College Football Power Rankings. And now, we’ll be updating them throughout the season. See below for my complete College Football Power Rankings for every single team ahead of Week 1.

Thor Nystrom’s College Football Power Rankings: Week 1

Note: In the table below, ATL is my system’s adjusted spread, and ATT is my system’s adjusted total.

Rank	Team	ATL	2022	Change	Conference
1	Georgia	52.6	1	0	SEC
2	Michigan	51.0	2	0	B1G
3	Ohio St.	50.7	3	0	B1G
4	Texas	46.2	7	3	B12
5	LSU	46.1	14	9	SEC
6	Alabama	45.8	4	-2	SEC
7	USC	44.3	13	6	P12
8	Clemson	43.9	10	2	ACC
9	Penn St.	43.6	9	0	B1G
10	Florida St.	43.4	15	5	ACC
11	Notre Dame	42.9	21	10	IND
12	Oregon	41.9	12	0	P12
13	Washington	41.3	17	4	P12
14	Texas A&M	40.8	43	29	SEC
15	Utah	40.1	6	-9	P12
16	Tennessee	39.8	11	-5	SEC
17	Ole Miss	39.2	16	-1	SEC
18	Oklahoma	38.3	24	6	B12
19	Wisconsin	37.3	37	18	B1G
20	Kentucky	35.7	28	8	SEC
21	Oregon St.	35.2	20	-1	P12
22	Texas Tech	35.0	36	14	B12
23	North Carolina	34.7	45	22	ACC
24	Arkansas	34.6	29	5	SEC
25	TCU	34.5	5	-20	B12
26	Auburn	34.4	49	23	SEC
27	UCLA	34.3	23	-4	P12
28	Florida	34.0	33	5	SEC
29	Iowa	33.7	27	-2	B1G
30	Baylor	33.6	26	-4	B12
31	Miami (FL)	33.2	72	41	ACC
32	Kansas St.	32.9	8	-24	B12
33	Louisville	32.5	31	-2	ACC
34	Minnesota	32.1	19	-15	B1G
35	South Carolina	31.7	30	-5	SEC
36	Missouri	31.5	48	12	SEC
37	Maryland	31.1	32	-5	B1G
38	UCF	30.3	38	0	B12
39	Mississippi St.	30.1	18	-21	SEC
40	North Carolina St.	29.8	44	4	ACC
41	Duke	29.6	53	12	ACC
42	Illinois	29.2	22	-20	B1G
43	Tulane	28.7	25	-18	AAC
44	Oklahoma St.	28.5	35	-9	ACC
45	Pittsburgh	28.4	39	-6	B12
46	Kansas	28.3	59	13	B12
47	Nebraska	27.7	70	23	B1G
48	Michigan St.	27.0	61	13	B1G
49	SMU	26.7	57	8	AAC
50	Syracuse	26.6	54	4	ACC
51	UTSA	26.5	46	-5	AAC
52	Iowa St.	26.3	51	-1	B12
53	Boise St.	26.0	56	3	MWC
54	Memphis	25.6	52	-2	AAC
55	Brigham Young	25.4	68	13	B12
56	West Virginia	24.7	62	6	B12
57	Wake Forest	24.6	41	-16	ACC
58	Washington St.	24.3	42	-16	P12
59	Purdue	24.1	40	-19	B1G
60	Houston	24.1	58	-2	B12
61	Cincinnati	23.9	34	-27	B12
62	California	23.8	73	11	P12
63	Toledo	23.7	76	13	MAC
64	South Alabama	23.5	50	-14	SBC
65	Troy	22.7	47	-18	SBC
66	Arizona	22.0	77	11	P12
67	Boston College	20.6	107	40	ACC
68	Arizona St.	20.3	79	11	P12
69	Colorado	20.2	122	53	P12
70	Marshall	20.0	67	-3	SBC
71	San Diego St.	19.8	81	10	MWC
72	Florida Atlantic	19.6	93	21	AAC
73	Fresno St.	19.3	63	-10	MWC
74	James Madison	19.1	55	-19	SBC
75	Air Force	18.9	60	-15	MWC
76	Appalachian St.	18.6	66	-10	SBC
77	Wyoming	18.3	99	22	MWC
78	Western Kentucky	18.2	65	-13	CUSA
79	Rutgers	18.1	97	18	B1G
80	North Texas	17.9	80	0	AAC
81	Vanderbilt	17.8	89	8	SEC
82	Virginia Tech	17.6	95	13	ACC
83	Georgia Tech	17.4	96	13	ACC
84	Virginia	17.1	88	4	ACC
85	Southern Miss	16.5	85	0	SBC
86	Coastal Carolina	15.9	75	-11	SBC
87	Indiana	15.7	86	-1	B1G
88	Northwestern	15.2	103	15	B1G
89	Temple	15.1	106	17	AAC
90	Liberty	14.8	78	-12	CUSA
91	Louisiana	14.8	71	-20	SBC
92	Ohio	14.7	92	0	MAC
93	Rice	14.5	116	23	AAC
94	Army	14.0	74	-20	IND
95	East Carolina	13.8	64	-31	AAC
96	Georgia St.	13.3	83	-13	SBC
97	Georgia Southern	13.2	91	-6	SBC
98	Navy	13.1	82	-16	AAC
99	Miami (OH)	13.0	110	11	MAC
100	Colorado St.	12.8	126	26	MWC
101	Northern Illinois	12.4	123	22	MAC
102	Connecticut	12.3	114	12	IND
103	Eastern Michigan	12.0	98	-5	MAC
104	San Jose St.	11.8	87	-17	MWC
105	Stanford	11.2	90	-15	P12
106	Central Michigan	11.0	108	2	MAC
107	Ball St.	10.7	112	5	MAC
108	UTEP	10.5	101	-7	AAC
109	South Florida	10.5	119	10	CUSA
110	Buffalo	10.3	100	-10	MAC
111	UNLV	10.3	104	-7	MWC
112	Louisiana Tech	10.0	121	9	CUSA
113	Middle Tennessee	9.9	94	-19	CUSA
114	UAB	9.7	69	-45	AAC
115	Old Dominion	9.4	109	-6	SBC
116	Tulsa	8.7	84	-32	AAC
117	Arkansas St.	7.9	113	-4	SBC
118	Akron	7.6	125	7	MAC
119	Sam Houston	7.3	FCS	N/A	CUSA
120	Hawai’i	7.2	128	8	MWC
121	Jacksonville St.	6.5	FCS	N/A	CUSA
122	Nevada	6.3	127	5	MWC
123	New Mexico St.	6.0	115	-8	CUSA
124	Bowling Green	5.9	120	-4	MAC
125	Utah St.	5.7	105	-20	MWC
126	Charlotte	5.2	124	-2	AAC
127	Texas St.	4.7	111	-16	SBC
128	Louisiana-Monroe	4.1	117	-11	SBC
129	New Mexico	3.6	129	0	MWC
130	Florida International	3.4	130	0	CUSA
131	Western Michigan	2.6	118	-13	MAC
132	Massachusetts	0.6	131	-1	IND
133	Kent St.	0.0	102	-31	MAC

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