1896 Week 7 College Football Team Rankings
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.
| Rank | Change | Rating | Team | Conf | Record | Win % | Place | NOW | Game Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | -0.035 |  Illinois (ILLINOIS) |  B10 | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Knox 70–4 |
| 2 | 18 | 0.213 |  Wisconsin (WISCONSIN) | B10 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Lake Forest 34–0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0.639 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 17 | 0 | Tied Princeton 0–0 |
| 4 | 1 | 0.745 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | BYE |
| 5 | -3 | 0.781 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Navy 8–0; Beat DARTMOUTH 16–0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0.958 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +5 | Beat Newton A.c. 18–0; Beat WESLEYAN 28–0 |
| 7 | -3 | 1.065 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 2–0–1 | 0.833 | 15 | 0 | Tied Lafayette 0–0; Beat LEHIGH 16–0 |
| 8 | -1 | 1.065 |  Purdue (PURDUE) | B10 | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Rush Medical 32–4 |
| 9 | 7 | 1.100 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | B10 | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Grand Rapids High 44–0 |
| 10 | -1 | 1.242 | Carlisle (CARLISLE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | BYE |
| 11 | 0 | 1.250 | Chicago (CHICAGO) | B10 | 9–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Hahnemann Medical 34–0; Beat IOWA 6–0 |
| 12 | -4 | 1.260 |  Minnesota (MINNESOTA) | B10 | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Grinnell 12–0 |
| 13 | 4 | 1.301 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Western Reserve 48–0 |
| 14 | -2 | 1.396 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Dickinson 8–0 |
| 15 | -2 | 1.402 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Brown 18–0; Beat ORANGE A.C. 12–0 |
| 16 | 5 | 1.419 |  Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN) | B10 | 3–0–1 | 0.875 | 14 | 0 | Beat Armour 42–0; Tied BELOIT 6–6 |
| 17 | -2 | 1.490 |  Bowdoin (BOWDOIN) | IND FBSI | 2–0–1 | 0.833 | 15 | +1 | Beat Bates 22–0 |
| 18 | 1 | 1.605 |  Navy (NAVY) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 20 | +1 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–8; Beat FRANKLIN & MARSHALL 49–0 |
| 19 | -5 | 2.682 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 19 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–18; Beat AMHERST 44–6 |
| 20 | 2 | 2.755 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 17 | +1 | Beat Andover 24–0 |
| 21 | -11 | 3.271 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 20 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–16 |
| 22 | 1 | 3.751 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 24 | 0 | Lost to Penn State 0–8 |
| 23 | 5 | 4.642 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 24 | 0 | Beat Boston College 22–8 |
| 24 | 1 | 4.940 |  Lake Forest (LAKE FOREST) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 20 | 0 | Beat Northwestern Academy 6–0; Lost to WISCONSIN 0–34 |
| 25 | 4 | 5.030 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 24 | 0 | Beat Worcester Tech 12–0 |
| 26 | 1 | 5.115 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 20 | 0 | BYE |
| 27 | -9 | 6.090 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 30 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–16 |
| 28 | 2 | 6.165 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 24 | -1 | Beat Worcester Tech 12–4; Lost to HARVARD 0–28 |
| 29 | -5 | 7.180 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 24 | -1 | Lost to Navy 0–49 |
| 30 | -4 | 10.271 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–2–1 | 0.167 | 29 | -1 | Lost to Brown 6–44 |