2025-26 College Policy Debate Ratings
Rank Team Rating Mu Sigma
1 Emory University: Gallagher & Song 42.95 47.17 1.26
2 University of Kansas: Larson & Schultz 41.54 45.76 1.26
3 University of Michigan: Barrett & Park 40.98 45.20 1.25
4 Georgetown University: Aggarwal & Cowan 38.64 42.86 1.20
5 University of Michigan: Shah & Shih 38.16 42.38 1.31
6 Northwestern University: Li & Rubin 37.65 41.87 1.30
7 California State University - Long Beach: Medina & Ortega 36.43 40.65 1.24
8 University of Iowa: Anderson McElligott & Parfenoff 35.56 39.78 1.21
9 State University of New York - Binghamton: Cohn & King 35.24 39.46 1.19
10 Michigan State University: Gusis & Lewis 35.11 39.33 1.33
11 University of Michigan: Esmailzadeh & Shetty 35.04 39.26 1.37
12 University of California - Berkeley: Menotti & Reichel 34.60 38.82 1.30
13 Emory University: Kim & Shirts 33.05 37.27 1.41
14 University of Kansas: Owings & Willingham 32.97 37.19 1.25
15 Emory University: Lobo & Yang 32.95 37.17 1.30
16 University of Kansas: Hato & Persinger 32.90 37.13 1.31
17 Northwestern University: Pacconi & Souchet 32.61 36.88 1.42
18 University of Kansas: Ain & Ulven 32.24 36.47 1.35
19 Emory University: Rupp & Young 31.78 36.00 1.27
20 University of Kentucky: Rimpson & Washington 31.30 36.30 1.67
21 University of Houston: Fernandez & Ibarra 30.30 36.68 2.12
22 Northwestern University: Arney & Tahirkheli 29.94 34.46 1.51
23 Baylor University: Darwish & Lassen 29.78 34.00 1.27
24 Dartmouth College: Cai & Goldberg 29.63 33.85 1.33
25 Northwestern University: Nestor & Patterson 29.17 33.94 1.59
26 University of Kentucky: Gabay & Slish 28.96 33.18 1.27
27 University of Iowa: Eltyeb & Weimar 28.46 32.68 1.37
28 New York University: Makinde & Saigal 28.39 33.35 1.65
29 Michigan State University: Foster & Martin 28.36 32.58 1.24
30 University of Michigan: Chamarthy & Chen 28.29 32.73 1.48
31 Michigan State University: Gearring & Shehzad 28.09 32.31 1.26
32 Harvard University: Deshpande & Sridharan 28.01 32.54 1.51
33 Wake Forest University: Leverett & Wolfe 27.84 32.06 1.35
34 University of California - Berkeley: Boguslavsky & Urfalian 27.59 31.81 1.27
35 University of Texas - Dallas: Penumetcha & Ravi 27.28 31.50 1.29
36 Stanford University: Lai & Lai 27.26 32.85 1.86
37 University of Texas - Dallas: Hale & Karthik 27.08 31.30 1.41
38 University of Kansas: Shaw & Suleman 27.03 31.48 1.48
39 Liberty University: Cunningham & Layton 26.86 31.08 1.35
40 University of Texas - Austin: Feinstein & Low 26.77 30.99 1.41
41 Emory University: Geevarghese & Maxwell 26.61 32.82 2.07
42 George Mason University: Witkov & Wright 26.54 30.76 1.38
43 University of Kansas: Brown & Walawender 26.34 30.56 1.35
44 Michigan State University: Jarman & Scully 26.26 30.48 1.21
45 George Mason University: Davis & Gorman 26.23 32.35 2.04
46 Emory University: Aggarwal & Stumpff 26.19 30.60 1.47
47 University of Southern California: Bhadani & Rahman 26.04 30.77 1.58
48 University of Michigan: Agustin & Ou 25.60 29.82 1.22
49 University of Michigan: Cho & Saudek 25.14 30.74 1.87
50 Dartmouth College: Jones & Rao 24.67 28.89 1.33
51 University of Kansas: Chidambaranathan & Suleman 24.59 29.83 1.74
52 University of Kentucky: Rimpson & Schedler 24.55 30.94 2.13
53 Wichita State University: Griffith & Molina Chavez 24.47 28.70 1.25
54 James Madison University: Matzen & Oehler 24.41 28.67 1.42
55 Harvard University: Aoki & Bodet 24.32 29.69 1.79
56 Wake Forest University: Dingley & Elliott 24.02 28.66 1.55
57 Northwestern University: Leonard & Lundberg 24.00 28.36 1.45
58 University of Kansas: Boyle & June 23.95 28.83 1.63
59 University of Southern California: Bradley & Martin 23.92 28.29 1.46
60 Baylor University: Benton & Keeler 23.78 28.00 1.33
61 Wake Forest University: Hale & Namikas 23.62 27.84 1.41
62 University of Southern California: Mills & Troup 23.43 27.94 1.50
63 Northwestern University: Lee & Weisz 23.36 27.58 1.35
64 University of Georgia: Chapman & Kaidar-Heafetz 23.29 27.54 1.42
65 George Mason University: Davis & Esteves 23.14 27.98 1.61
66 Wake Forest University: Aderibigbe & Brown 22.91 27.13 1.39
67 Western Kentucky University: Carter & Fournier 22.84 28.89 2.02
68 University of Texas - Dallas: D'Antuono & Dickey 22.58 27.88 1.77
69 Kansas State University: Day & Robertson 22.40 27.85 1.82
70 Dartmouth College: Ben-Abdallah & Carpenter 22.26 26.71 1.48
71 Emory University: Charabuddi & Ravikumar 22.09 26.31 1.36
72 University of Kansas: Blaser & Pace 22.08 28.11 2.01
73 Kansas State University: Ardis & Sand 22.05 26.42 1.46
74 University of Georgia: Cannon & Pack 21.99 26.21 1.32
75 Western Kentucky University: Schintgen & StPeter 21.86 26.43 1.53
76 Missouri State University: Neal & Siever 21.75 25.97 1.22
77 University of Minnesota: Haber-Fawcett & Usenov 21.16 25.39 1.32
78 New York University: Jain & Theiding 21.16 25.69 1.51
79 George Mason University: Richter & Taxali 21.01 25.23 1.34
80 Georgetown University: Greenberg & Tamfu 20.97 25.45 1.50
81 University of Kansas: Bauman & Persson 20.83 26.11 1.76
82 University of Texas - Dallas: Hoch & Humphrey 20.72 25.80 1.69
83 Western Kentucky University: Kumar & Ney 20.72 25.57 1.62
84 Georgetown University: Lastelick & Nanji 20.68 24.91 1.34
85 University of California - Berkeley: Gilrain-Lennon & Situ 20.54 25.77 1.74
86 Kansas State University: Robertson & Sum 20.51 26.07 1.85
87 University of Wyoming: Campbell & Hawley 20.51 24.73 1.34
88 University of Kansas: Bath & McConnell 20.45 25.56 1.70
89 Gonzaga University: Roe & Wellman 20.45 25.17 1.57
90 University of Iowa: Bilicki & Sanderson 20.33 24.55 1.39
91 University of Kansas: Chaudhry & Falin 20.17 25.10 1.64
92 University of Rochester: Ozcayir & Rahman 20.10 24.45 1.45
93 University of Iowa: Kleiman & Severson 20.04 24.74 1.57
94 University of Kansas: Smith & Terreros 20.03 25.10 1.69
95 University of Michigan: Baba & Ledesma 19.54 23.88 1.45
96 University of Wyoming: Widi & Willson 19.26 23.48 1.23
97 Northwestern University: Arceo & Kung 19.18 23.51 1.44
98 Trinity University: King & Patterson 18.99 24.09 1.70
99 University of Michigan: Hwang & McIlhenny 18.97 24.76 1.93
100 University of Texas - San Antonio: Carrillo & Garza 18.80 23.21 1.47
* Tournaments included (27): ASU, Bing, BTO, CSUN, DartRR, GMU, Gonzaga, Gtown, Indiana, IowaRR, KSU, KU, Monmouth, MoState, Navy, NU, OU, Roch, RutgersRR, Texas, UH, UK, UKRR, UMN, UTSA, WFU, WP
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Season Stats - All Divisions
Schools: 70
Teams: 656
​Participants: 850
Rounds: 5671
Aff Win%: 47.2
Elim Aff Win%: 40.5

Season Stats - Open
Schools: 63
Teams: 366
​Participants: 523
Rounds: 3972
Aff Win%: 47.4
Elim Aff Win%: 43.4
Median Points: 28.9
Interquartile Range: 28.7 - 29.2

Season Stats - Junior Varsity
Schools: 45
Teams: 126
​Participants: 197
Rounds: 661
Aff Win%: 46.5
Elim Aff Win%: 43.1
Median Points: 28.8
Interquartile Range: 28.5 - 29.0

Season Stats - Novice
Schools: 40
Teams: 217
​Participants: 291
Rounds: 1038
Aff Win%: 47.0
Elim Aff Win%: 32.0
Median Points: 28.6
Interquartile Range: 28.3 - 28.9