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 2026-27 quizbowl season by 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.

UConn rookie and former Columbia star Forrest Weintraub was ranked the top player of 2026-27, the first time in her career.

The List

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	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