View source for 2026-27 Top 100 Player Ranking

The '''Top 100 Player Ranking: 2026-27 Edition''' was a player ranking poll honoring the top 100 players in [[collegiate]] [[quizbowl]], made ahead of the [[2026-2027|2026-27]] quizbowl season by [[Amogh Kulkarni (Chicago)|Amogh Kulkarni]]. The third such player rating post authored by Kulkarni, it premiered on July 12, 2026, and concluded on October 9, 2026.

The ranking included humorous anecdotes which linked players to various topics from academic and popular culture. These anecdotes received a mixed reception. [[Chauncey Lo]] was removed from the Top 100 Player Ranking after it was revealed he had graduated from university, leading to his replacement by [[Geoffrey Chen]]. The rankings preceding Lo were subsequently reshuffled, decreasing by 1 to accommodate Chen at #100.

[[UConn]] rookie and former [[Columbia]] star [[Forrest Weintraub]] was ranked the top player of 2026-27, the first time in her career.<ref>https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=414220#p414220</ref>

== The List ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Ranking
! Player
! School
|-
| 1
| [[Forrest Weintraub]]
| [[UConn]]
|-
| 2
| [[Jakob Myers]]
| [[Indiana]]
|-
| 3
| [[Noah Chin]]
| [[Virginia Tech]]
|-
| 4
| [[Ryan Rosenberg]]
| [[NYU]]
|-
| 5
| [[Andrew Zeng]]
| [[Stanford]]
|-
| 6
| [[Michał Gerasimiuk]]
| [[Stanford]]
|-
| 7
| [[Caleb Ott]]
| [[Waterloo]]
|-
| 8
| [[Andrew Wang]]
| [[Illinois]]
|-
| 9
| [[William Golden]]
| [[Houston]]
|-
| 10
| [[Rohan Ganeshan]]
| [[Harvard]]
|-
| 11
| [[Kai Smith]]
| [[Northwestern]]
|-
| 12
| [[Karthik Jayaram]]
| [[UCLA]]
|-
| 13
| [[Jack Lewis]]
| [[Belmont]]
|-
| 14
| [[Joseph Chambers]]
| [[Virginia]]
|-
| 15
| [[Yrwin Batan]]
| [[MIT]]
|-
| 16
| [[Ariel Faeder]]
| [[Pittsburgh]]
|-
| 17
| [[Shahar Schwartz]]
| [[UCSD]]
|-
| 18
| [[Charles Hang]]
| [[WUSTL]]
|-
| 19
| [[Robert Wang]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 20
| [[Sinecio Morales]]
| [[Johns Hopkins]]
|-
| 21
| [[Mattias Ehatamm]]
| [[Maryland]]
|-
| 22
| [[Sky Li]]
| [[Toronto]]
|-
| 23
| [[Rohan Kher]]
| [[Brown]]
|-
| 24
| [[Cooper Roh]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 25
| [[Sharath Narayan]]
| [[Northwestern]]
|-
| 26
| [[Jaskaran Singh]]
| [[UCLA]]
|-
| 27
| [[Claire Jones]]
| [[Chicago]]
|-
| 28
| [[Bryan Ugaz]]
| [[McGill]]
|-
| 29
| [[Conor Thompson]]
| [[Iowa State]]
|-
| 30
| [[Moses Kitakule]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 31
| [[Justin Wytmar]]
| [[NYU]]
|-
| 32
| [[Alex Akridge]]
| [[Indiana]]
|-
| 33
| [[Eshan Pant]]
| [[NYU]]
|-
| 34
| [[Swapnil Garg]]
| [[Berkeley]]
|-
| 35
| [[Charles Young]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 36
| [[Micah Colman]]
| [[Waterloo]]
|-
| 37
| [[Orion Keller]]
| [[Virginia Tech]]
|-
| 38
| [[John Marvin]]
| [[Chicago]]
|-
| 39
| [[Michael Kearney]]
| [[Harvard]]
|-
| 40
| [[Raymond Chen]]
| [[Toronto]]
|-
| 41
| [[Kevin Wang (Johns Creek)|Kevin Wang]]
| [[Georgia Tech]]
|-
| 42
| [[Ryan Fang]]
| [[Stanford]]
|-
| 43
| [[Olin Bose]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 44
| [[Alvin Guo]]
| [[Chicago]]
|-
| 45
| [[Ben Hellman]]
| [[Swarthmore]]
|-
| 46
| [[Nathan Zhang]]
| [[Stanford]]
|-
| 47
| [[Evan Schleck]]
| [[Georgetown]]
|-
| 48
| [[Justin Hawkins]]
| [[Indiana]]
|-
| 49
| [[Jack Rado]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 50
| [[Aiden Dartley]]
| [[Rutgers]]
|-
| 51
| [[Cole Hartung]]
| [[Georgetown]]
|-
| 52
| [[David Bass]]
| [[Johns Hopkins]]
|-
| 53
| [[Danila Kabotyanski]]
| [[Indiana]]
|-
| 54
| [[Akshar Goyal]]
| [[Illinois]]
|-
| 55
| [[Todd Maslyk]]
| [[Michigan]]
|-
| 56
| [[Chris Yoo]]
| [[William & Mary]]
|-
| 57
| [[Jim Fan]]
| [[North Carolina]]
|-
| 58
| [[Tate Osborne]]
| [[Auburn]]
|-
| 59
| [[Mason Yu]]
| [[Brown]]
|-
| 60
| [[Alex Jiang]]
| [[Brown]]
|-
| 61
| [[Andy Yu]]
| [[Maryland]]
|-
| 62
| [[Vinu Harihar]]
| [[Berkeley]]
|-
| 63
| [[Allan Lee]]
| [[Stanford]]
|-
| 64
| [[Kunaal Chandrashekar]]
| [[Toronto]]
|-
| 65
| [[Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt]]
| [[NYU]]
|-
| 66
| [[Tanay Bodducherla]]
| [[Berkeley]]
|-
| 67
| [[Khang Le]]
| [[Stanford]]
|-
| 68
| [[Allan Yuan]]
| [[Purdue]]
|-
| 69
| [[Jean-Patrick Michael Torre]]
| [[Maryland]]
|-
| 70
| [[Jeffrey Xu]]
| [[Georgia Tech]]
|-
| 71
| [[Arjun Kala]]
| [[Illinois]]
|-
| 72
| [[Joshua Koch]]
| [[Michigan]]
|-
| 73
| [[Kaiwen Xiao]]
| [[UCLA]]
|-
| 74
| [[Vikshar Athreya]]
| [[Rutgers]]
|-
| 75
| [[Matt Schiavone]]
| [[Northwestern]]
|-
| 76
| [[Jason Qin]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 77
| [[John John Groger]]
| [[WUSTL]]
|-
| 78
| [[Owen Mimno]]
| [[NYU]]
|-
| 79
| [[Danny Han]]
| [[Stanford]]
|-
| 80
| [[Nikolas Polsinelli]]
| [[Chicago]]
|-
| 81
| [[Omkar Marathe]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 82
| [[Drake Eshleman]]
| [[Indiana]]
|-
| 83
| [[Jackie Xu]]
| [[Cornell]]
|-
| 84
| [[Emerson Patmore]]
| [[Georgia Tech]]
|-
| 85
| [[Rachel Ezrielev]]
| [[Georgetown]]
|-
| 86
| [[James McCurley]]
| [[Harvard]]
|-
| 87
| [[Truman Hill]]
| [[Vanderbilt]]
|-
| 88
| [[Ethan Bosita]]
| [[Stanford]]
|-
| 89
| [[Colin Veevers]]
| [[Ottawa]]
|-
| 90
| [[Ilyas Choukri]]
| [[Virginia Tech]]
|-
| 91
| [[Alex Thomas]]
| [[Georgia Tech]]
|-
| 92
| [[Kevin Ye]]
| [[Simon Fraser]]
|-
| 93
| [[Tiffany Zhou]]
| [[Ohio State]]
|-
| 94
| [[Milan Fernandez]]
| [[Brock]]
|-
| 95
| [[Zachary Joseph]]
| [[Columbia]]
|-
| 96
| [[Rachel Fanous]]
| [[Michigan]]
|-
| 97
| [[Ian Chow]]
| [[Washington]]
|-
| 98
| [[Denis Liu]]
| [[Illinois]]
|-
| 99
| [[Abhinav Rachakonda]]
| [[UCLA]]
|-
| 100
| [[Geoffrey Chen]]
| [[Cornell]]
|}<ref>https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=414220</ref>

== References ==