1896 Week 6 College Football Team Rankings

October 6, 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	12	0.071	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	1–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Lake Forest 38–0
2	-1	0.544	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	+2	Beat Gettysburg 32–0; Beat BUCKNELL 40–0
3	0	0.639	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	BYE
4	14	0.639	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Rutgers 44–0
5	6	0.745	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Tufts 27–0
6	-1	0.816	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+2	Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 34–0
7	12	0.923	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Greer 36–0
8	-4	1.088	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Carleton 16–6
9	-7	1.100	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Duquesne A.c. 18–0
10	2	1.135	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Worcester A.c. 30–0
11	-2	1.181	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	7–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Monmouth 43–0; Beat CHICAGO ALUMNI 5–0
12	-6	1.384	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Pittsburgh 10–4
13	-6	1.384	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Amherst 12–0
14	8	1.490	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	BYE
15	-7	1.561	Bowdoin (BOWDOIN)	IND FBSI	1–0–1	0.750	18	0	Tied Amherst 0–0
16	-1	1.561	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Eastern Michigan 18–0
17	8	1.703	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Syracuse 22–0
18	-4	1.742	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	28	0	BYE
19	-3	1.742	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	28	0	BYE
20	1	1.742	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	0–0	0.000	28	0	BYE
21	-4	1.774	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Englewood High 20–0; Beat CHICAGO A.C. 4–0
22	6	3.122	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	2–1	0.667	19	0	Beat Troy Laureates 12–4; Beat WESLEYAN 6–0
23	6	3.133	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	20	0	Beat Ursinus 40–0
24	6	3.859	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	20	0	Beat Gettysburg 24–0
25	-2	4.868	Lake Forest (LAKE FOREST)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	20	0	Lost to Illinois 0–38
26	-16	4.890	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	0–1–1	0.250	24	0	Lost to Yale 0–12; Tied BOWDOIN 0–0
27	-3	5.115	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	20	0	Lost to Pennsylvania 0–40
28	-2	5.432	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	0–2	0.000	25	0	Lost to Army 0–27
29	-2	6.129	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	0–2	0.000	25	0	Lost to Harvard 0–34
30	-10	9.535	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	0–1	0.000	25	-1	Lost to Williams 0–6

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