1896 Final College Football Team Rankings

December 22, 1896By PowerUpRankings.com • Posted in 1896 Season Tags: • No Comments

1896 rankings calculated with the Classic formula (Ken's 2016-based hybrid, applied retroactively); records, NOW and game results come from James Howell's historical college football score archive.

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Rank	Change	Rating	Team	Conf	Record	Win %	Place	NOW	Game Status
1	0	0.543	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	10–0–1	0.955	2	+38	BYE
2	1	0.869	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	14–1	0.933	3	+51	BYE
3	1	1.019	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	11–0–1	0.958	1	+30	BYE
4	1	1.104	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	9–1	0.900	5	+15	BYE
5	-3	1.348	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	7–1–1	0.833	7	+21	Lost to Carlisle 8–18
6	0	1.370	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	13–1	0.929	4	+39	BYE
7	0	1.523	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	6–1–2	0.778	9	+17	BYE
8	0	1.617	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	15–2–1	0.861	6	+17	BYE
9	0	2.085	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	8–2	0.800	8	+2	BYE
10	0	2.207	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	4–2–1	0.643	12	0	BYE
11	0	2.366	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	5–2–1	0.688	10	+12	BYE
12	0	2.699	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	5–3–1	0.611	16	+2	BYE
13	0	2.756	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	7–4	0.636	14	+28	BYE
14	1	2.819	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	5–3	0.625	15	+4	BYE
15	-1	2.830	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	3–2–1	0.583	20	+5	BYE
16	0	2.870	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	4–2–1	0.643	12	-3	BYE
17	3	3.439	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	5–5	0.500	21	+3	Beat Wisconsin 18–8
18	-1	3.567	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	5–2–1	0.688	10	+3	BYE
19	-1	3.760	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	5–3–1	0.611	16	-5	BYE
20	-1	3.828	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	6–4–1	0.591	19	-4	BYE
21	0	4.235	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	4–5–1	0.450	22	+1	BYE
22	0	4.517	Bowdoin (BOWDOIN)	IND FBSI	5–3–2	0.600	18	-4	BYE
23	0	4.740	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	4–5	0.444	24	-12	BYE
24	0	5.045	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	4–5–1	0.450	22	-5	BYE
25	0	5.680	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	3–4	0.429	27	-4	BYE
26	0	6.192	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	3–4–2	0.444	24	-4	BYE
27	0	6.350	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	3–6–1	0.350	28	-7	BYE
28	1	6.584	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	2–5	0.286	29	-10	BYE
29	-1	6.599	Lake Forest (LAKE FOREST)	IND FBSI	3–4–1	0.438	26	-4	BYE
30	0	8.809	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	2–6–1	0.278	30	-16	BYE

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