2025-26 College Policy Debate Ratings
* Tournaments included (16): NU, GMU, MoState, UKRR, Bing, UK, IowaRR, UH, UMN, WP, OU, Gonzaga, CSUN, Roch, WFU, Monmouth
Team Rating Mu Sigma
1 University of Kansas: Larson & Schultz 41.15 46.39 1.51
2 University of Michigan: Barrett & Park 40.96 46.20 1.49
3 Emory University: Gallagher & Song 40.78 46.01 1.55
4 Northwestern University: Li & Rubin 36.79 42.03 1.61
5 Georgetown University: Aggarwal & Cowan 36.55 41.79 1.49
6 Michigan State University: Gusis & Lewis 36.28 41.51 1.69
7 University of Michigan: Shah & Shih 34.43 39.66 1.64
8 California State University - Long Beach: Medina & Ortega 34.08 39.31 1.48
9 State University of New York - Binghamton: Cohn & King 34.03 39.26 1.42
10 University of Iowa: Anderson McElligott & Parfenoff 34.00 39.24 1.51
11 University of Michigan: Esmailzadeh & Shetty 32.43 37.67 1.73
12 University of Kansas: Owings & Willingham 32.04 37.28 1.61
13 University of Kansas: Hato & Persinger 31.71 36.94 1.55
14 Emory University: Lobo & Yang 31.68 36.92 1.55
15 University of California - Berkeley: Menotti & Reichel 31.07 36.30 1.61
16 University of Kentucky: Rimpson & Washington 31.06 36.30 1.67
17 Northwestern University: Pacconi & Souchet 30.61 36.34 1.91
18 Northwestern University: Arney & Tahirkheli 30.35 35.59 1.68
19 Emory University: Kim & Shirts 30.01 35.87 1.95
20 University of Texas - Austin: Feinstein & Low 29.68 35.47 1.93
21 University of Kansas: Ain & Ulven 28.92 34.25 1.78
22 Northwestern University: Nestor & Patterson 27.99 33.66 1.89
23 Emory University: Rupp & Young 27.94 33.17 1.71
24 University of Michigan: Chamarthy & Chen 27.50 32.73 1.70
25 Michigan State University: Gearring & Shehzad 27.35 32.58 1.62
26 Stanford University: Lai & Lai 27.22 32.80 1.86
27 University of Iowa: Eltyeb & Weimar 27.12 32.36 1.70
28 University of West Georgia: Keller & Kennon 27.03 33.65 2.21
29 Dartmouth College: Cai & Goldberg 26.95 32.19 1.64
30 Harvard University: Deshpande & Sridharan 26.81 33.02 2.07
31 George Mason University: Witkov & Wright 26.77 32.01 1.65
32 Baylor University: Darwish & Lassen 26.69 31.93 1.57
33 University of Kansas: Shaw & Suleman 26.64 32.16 1.84
34 University of Kentucky: Gabay & Slish 26.52 31.76 1.74
35 Wake Forest University: Leverett & Wolfe 26.33 31.74 1.80
36 University of Texas - Dallas: Hale & Karthik 26.21 31.50 1.76
37 George Mason University: Davis & Gorman 26.19 32.30 2.04
38 Michigan State University: Jarman & Scully 26.16 31.39 1.51
39 Liberty University: Cunningham & Layton 25.88 31.12 1.54
40 University of Michigan: Agustin & Ou 25.74 30.97 1.53
41 Michigan State University: Foster & Martin 25.36 30.60 1.63
42 University of Southern California: Bhadani & Rahman 25.16 30.90 1.92
43 University of Texas - Dallas: Penumetcha & Ravi 25.11 30.35 1.57
44 University of Michigan: Cho & Saudek 24.95 30.57 1.87
45 Emory University: Aggarwal & Stumpff 23.95 29.19 1.68
46 University of California - Berkeley: Boguslavsky & Urfalian 23.82 29.06 1.66
47 University of Kansas: Boyle & June 23.60 29.26 1.89
48 Wichita State University: Griffith & Molina Chavez 23.59 28.83 1.43
49 University of Kansas: Chidambaranathan & Suleman 23.48 28.90 1.81
50 James Madison University: Matzen & Oehler 23.45 29.14 1.90
51 University of Southern California: Bradley & Martin 23.45 28.68 1.73
52 University of Kansas: Brown & Walawender 23.42 28.65 1.66
53 Wake Forest University: Dingley & Elliott 22.99 28.97 1.99
54 Dartmouth College: Ben-Abdallah & Carpenter 22.88 28.71 1.94
55 University of Houston: Doratt & Fernandez 22.79 30.77 2.66
56 Harvard University: Aoki & Bodet 22.72 29.02 2.10
57 Wake Forest University: Aderibigbe & Brown 22.71 27.95 1.67
58 University of Houston: Ibarra & Sheffield 22.56 29.64 2.36
59 Wake Forest University: Hale & Namikas 22.54 27.78 1.50
60 Western Kentucky University: Carter & Fournier 22.52 28.63 2.04
61 University of Texas - Dallas: D'Antuono & Dickey 22.44 28.52 2.02
62 University of Southern California: Mills & Troup 22.41 27.64 1.70
63 Dartmouth College: Jones & Rao 22.27 28.58 2.10
64 University of Iowa: Bilicki & Sanderson 22.25 27.49 1.74
65 Northwestern University: Leonard & Lundberg 22.11 27.38 1.76
66 University of Kansas: Blaser & Pace 22.08 28.11 2.01
67 Baylor University: Benton & Keeler 21.82 27.07 1.75
68 Western Kentucky University: Schintgen & StPeter 21.55 26.78 1.70
69 University of Georgia: Cannon & Pack 21.35 26.59 1.72
70 Northwestern University: Lee & Weisz 20.99 26.50 1.84
71 University of Georgia: Chapman & Kaidar-Heafetz 20.97 26.20 1.73
72 Kansas State University: Robertson & Sum 20.66 26.23 1.86
73 University of Rochester: Ozcayir & Rahman 20.58 25.82 1.74
74 Georgetown University: Greenberg & Tamfu 20.28 26.14 1.95
75 University of Kansas: Bath & McConnell 20.28 25.52 1.71
76 Gonzaga University: Roe & Wellman 20.00 25.24 1.58
77 Missouri State University: Neal & Siever 19.98 25.21 1.49
78 Northwestern University: Arceo & Kung 19.92 26.29 2.12
79 Western Kentucky University: Kumar & Ney 19.82 25.39 1.86
80 University of Texas - Dallas: Hoch & Humphrey 19.81 25.72 1.97
81 New York University: Jain & Theiding 19.79 26.04 2.08
82 George Mason University: Richter & Taxali 19.72 24.96 1.57
83 University of Minnesota: Haber-Fawcett & Usenov 19.52 25.11 1.86
84 United States Military Academy: Opron & Song 19.37 25.11 1.91
85 University of Kansas: Chaudhry & Falin 19.26 24.76 1.83
86 Wake Forest University: Mbye & Peters 18.84 25.50 2.22
87 University of Kansas: Smith & Terreros 18.79 24.52 1.91
88 Liberty University: Koenig & Tooley 18.77 24.21 1.81
89 George Mason University: Chen & O'Connor 18.72 25.53 2.27
90 Emory University: Charabuddi & Ravikumar 18.70 24.87 2.06
91 Liberty University: Soares & Spencer 18.67 24.20 1.84
92 University of Michigan: Almand & Moon 18.61 24.52 1.97
93 University of Iowa: Kleiman & Severson 18.44 23.70 1.75
94 Macalester College: Harrison & Winters 18.07 24.16 2.03
Calculate win probability
Affirmative
Negative

Season Stats - All Divisions
Schools: 70
Teams: 556
​Participants: 820
Rounds: 3770
Aff Win%: 47.3
Elim Aff Win%: 40.7

Season Stats - Open
Schools: 62
Teams: 300
​Participants: 475
Rounds: 2510
Aff Win%: 47.0
Elim Aff Win%: 45.7
Median Points: 28.9
Interquartile Range: 28.7 - 29.2

Season Stats - Junior Varsity
Schools: 40
Teams: 95
​Participants: 156
Rounds: 455
Aff Win%: 48.2
Elim Aff Win%: 44.2
Median Points: 28.7
Interquartile Range: 28.5 - 28.9

Season Stats - Novice
Schools: 40
Teams: 195
​Participants: 290
Rounds: 805
Aff Win%: 47.6
Elim Aff Win%: 29.2
Median Points: 28.6
Interquartile Range: 28.3 - 28.9