2012 FCS PRE-SEASON RATINGS
| TEAM | RATING | PVS | SCHED | RANK |
| 1 | N Dakota St | 105.2 | 1 | 86.8 | T29 |
| 2 | Sam Houston St | 102.5 | 3 | 84.5 | T44 |
| 3 | Montana | 98.3 | 2 | 84.1 | 49 |
| 4 | Georgia Srn | 97.9 | 11 | 89.7 | 11 |
| 5 | James Madison | 96.8 | 6 | 87.8 | 22 |
| 6 | Old Dominion | 96.4 | 4 | 83.9 | T50 |
| 7 | Chattanooga | 96 | 19 | 88.5 | 18 |
| 8 | Youngstown St | 96 | 20 | 86.8 | T29 |
| 9 | Stephen F Austin | 95.6 | 42 | 79.7 | 76 |
| 10 | Stony Brook | 94.9 | 7 | 78.8 | 81 |
| 11 | Delaware | 94.1 | 17 | 84.3 | T46 |
| 12 | Towson | 93.7 | 10 | 96.4 | 1 |
| 13 | Maine | 93.7 | 14 | 89.5 | 13 |
| 14 | Illinois St | 93.3 | 12 | 86.7 | T31 |
| 15 | Harvard | 92.5 | 5 | 76.2 | 97 |
| 16 | Srn Utah | 91.8 | 41 | 88.3 | 19 |
| 17 | New Hampshire | 91.4 | 15 | 86.7 | T31 |
| 18 | Ern Kentucky | 90.6 | 28 | 83 | 56 |
| 19 | Appalachian St | 90.2 | 16 | 90 | T8 |
| 20 | Nrn Iowa | 90.2 | 9 | 88.7 | T15 |
| 21 | Furman | 89.9 | 23 | 90.5 | 7 |
| 22 | Wofford | 89.9 | 13 | 86.4 | T34 |
| 23 | Lehigh | 89.9 | 8 | 76.1 | 98 |
| 24 | Ern Washington | 89.5 | 18 | 88.7 | T15 |
| 25 | The Citadel | 89.1 | 47 | 88.7 | T15 |
| 26 | Nrn Arizona | 88.7 | 63 | 82.6 | 58 |
| 27 | Srn Illinois | 88.3 | 43 | 89.8 | 10 |
| 28 | Villanova | 88.3 | 84 | 89.6 | 12 |
| 29 | S Dakota St | 88.3 | 29 | 87.3 | 27 |
| 30 | Murray St | 87.5 | 33 | 88 | 21 |
| 31 | Samford | 87.1 | 25 | 87.4 | 26 |
| 32 | Liberty | 87.1 | 26 | 83.4 | 53 |
| 33 | Montana St | 87.1 | 21 | 83.3 | 54 |
| 34 | Elon | 86.8 | 45 | 86 | 36 |
| 35 | Bethune-Cookman | 86.8 | 24 | 79 | T79 |
| 36 | Cal Poly | 86.4 | 32 | 80.4 | 67 |
| 37 | Jacksonville St | 86 | 48 | 92.2 | 4 |
| 38 | Jackson St | 86 | 34 | 78.6 | 83 |
| 39 | Central Arkansas | 86 | 22 | 77.9 | 87 |
| 40 | Indiana St | 85.6 | 38 | 84.9 | 42 |
| 41 | Weber St | 85.2 | 44 | 90 | T8 |
| 42 | Tennessee Tech | 84.5 | 31 | 86.9 | 28 |
| 43 | William & Mary | 84.1 | 51 | 88.9 | 14 |
| 44 | Missouri St | 83.3 | 64 | 95.4 | 3 |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 83.3 | 58 | 87.5 | 25 |
| 46 | Tennessee-Martin | 83.3 | 75 | 84.5 | T44 |
| 47 | Florida A&M | 83.3 | 56 | 79.6 | 77 |
| 48 | Pennsylvania | 83.3 | 57 | 78.5 | 84 |
| 49 | Norfolk St | 83.3 | 36 | 76.9 | T94 |
| 50 | Portland St | 82.9 | 35 | 85.7 | 37 |
| 51 | UC-Davis | 82.9 | 55 | 83.9 | T50 |
| 52 | Cornell | 82.9 | 66 | 75.5 | T102 |
| 53 | Holy Cross | 82.5 | 52 | 81 | T64 |
| 54 | Richmond | 82.1 | 69 | 86.4 | T34 |
| 55 | Sacramento St | 82.1 | 83 | 83.5 | 52 |
| 56 | Georgetown | 82.1 | 40 | 75.6 | 101 |
| 57 | Colgate | 81.8 | 72 | 80.1 | T72 |
| 58 | Northwestern St | 81.4 | 74 | 84.3 | T46 |
| 59 | Coastal Carolina | 81 | 46 | 85.4 | 39 |
| 60 | Tennessee St | 81 | 79 | 82.3 | 59 |
| 61 | N Carolina A&T | 81 | 85 | 71.3 | 112 |
| 62 | Presbyterian | 80.6 | 86 | 81 | T64 |
| 63 | Alabama A&M | 80.6 | 68 | 77.3 | 91 |
| 64 | S Dakota | 80.2 | 49 | 91.8 | 5 |
| 65 | S Carolina St | 80.2 | 65 | 81.7 | 61 |
| 66 | Duquesne | 80.2 | 37 | 72.4 | 111 |
| 67 | Ern Illinois | 79.9 | 90 | 84.3 | T46 |
| 68 | N Dakota | 79.5 | 27 | 83.1 | 55 |
| 69 | Wagner | 79.5 | 88 | 74.6 | 105 |
| 70 | Albany | 79.1 | 39 | 77.7 | T89 |
| 71 | Bucknell | 78.7 | 80 | 81.1 | 63 |
| 72 | McNeese St | 78.3 | 82 | 80.1 | T72 |
| 73 | Prairie View A&M | 78.3 | 77 | 75.5 | T102 |
| 74 | Wrn Illinois | 77.9 | 87 | 87.7 | 23 |
| 75 | SE Louisiana | 77.9 | 101 | 86.5 | 33 |
| 76 | Grambling St | 77.1 | 59 | 77.7 | T89 |
| 77 | Alabama St | 77.1 | 67 | 74.5 | 106 |
| 78 | SE Missouri St | 76.8 | 60 | 82.7 | 57 |
| 79 | Lafayette | 76.4 | 76 | 78.3 | 85 |
| 80 | Hampton | 76 | 81 | 75.7 | 100 |
| 81 | Drake | 75.6 | 30 | 68.4 | 118 |
| 82 | Nrn Colorado | 74.9 | 109 | 85.6 | 38 |
| 83 | Brown | 74.9 | 53 | 79.3 | 78 |
| 84 | Sacred Heart | 74.5 | 89 | 74.2 | 107 |
| 85 | Dartmouth | 74.1 | 62 | 76.9 | T94 |
| 86 | Jacksonville | 73.7 | 70 | 69.8 | 115 |
| 87 | Yale | 73.3 | 78 | 80 | 75 |
| 88 | San Diego | 73.3 | 61 | 69.1 | T116 |
| 89 | Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 72.5 | 96 | 73.3 | 110 |
| 90 | Southern | 72.1 | 97 | 75.4 | 104 |
| 91 | Wrn Carolina | 71.8 | 119 | 96 | 2 |
| 92 | Morgan St | 71.8 | 99 | 73.5 | 109 |
| 93 | Idaho St | 71.4 | 118 | 87.6 | 24 |
| 94 | Columbia | 71.4 | 102 | 77.8 | 88 |
| 95 | Georgia St | 70.6 | 100 | 91.1 | 6 |
| 96 | Bryant | 70.6 | 73 | 75.8 | 99 |
| 97 | Gardner-Webb | 70.2 | 108 | 85.2 | 41 |
| 98 | Delaware St | 70.2 | 113 | 80.9 | 66 |
| 99 | Central Connecticut St | 70.2 | 93 | 79 | T79 |
| 100 | St Francis (Pa) | 69.9 | 115 | 77.1 | 93 |
| 101 | Marist | 69.9 | 103 | 68.2 | 119 |
| 102 | Fordham | 69.5 | 114 | 82 | 60 |
| 103 | Monmouth | 69.5 | 92 | 77.2 | 92 |
| 104 | Robert Morris | 69.1 | 116 | 76.5 | 96 |
| 105 | Texas Srn | 68.7 | 98 | 80.3 | T68 |
| 106 | Charleston Srn | 68.7 | 124 | 78.7 | 82 |
| 107 | VMI | 68.3 | 117 | 80.3 | T68 |
| 108 | Austin Peay | 67.9 | 111 | 85.3 | 40 |
| 109 | Howard | 67.9 | 95 | 80.3 | T68 |
| 110 | Princeton | 67.5 | 107 | 80.1 | T72 |
| 111 | Dayton | 66 | 94 | 70.5 | 113 |
| 112 | Butler | 66 | 104 | 68 | 120 |
| 113 | Alcorn St | 65.6 | 112 | 80.2 | 71 |
| 114 | Mississippi Valley St | 65.6 | 123 | 73.6 | 108 |
| 115 | Campbell | 65.6 | 105 | 67.6 | 121 |
| 116 | Morehead St | 65.2 | 122 | 65.8 | 122 |
| 117 | Nicholls St | 62.9 | 121 | 88.1 | 20 |
| 118 | N Carolina Central | 61.4 | 110 | 78.1 | 86 |
| 119 | Lamar | 59.5 | 106 | 81.4 | 62 |
| 120 | Davidson | 57.5 | 120 | 70.2 | 114 |
| 121 | Valparaiso | 52.1 | 126 | 69.1 | T116 |
| 122 | Savannah St | 51.8 | 125 | 84.6 | 43 |