1897 Final College Football Team Rankings

November 30, 1897By PowerUpRankings.com • Posted in 1897 Season Tags: • No Comments

1897 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	0.387	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	15–0	1.000	1	+61	Beat Cornell 4–0
2	0	0.397	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	10–1	0.909	3	+39	BYE
3	2	1.007	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	9–0–2	0.909	3	+36	BYE
4	0	1.030	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	10–1–1	0.875	6	+31	BYE
5	1	1.122	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	6–1–1	0.813	8	+25	BYE
6	1	1.153	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	11–1	0.917	2	+16	Beat Michigan 21–12
7	-4	1.488	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	6–1–1	0.813	8	+8	Lost to Chicago 12–21
8	0	1.521	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	9–1	0.900	5	+20	Beat Northwestern 22–0
9	0	1.939	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	9–2–1	0.792	10	+23	Beat Lehigh 22–0
10	0	2.111	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	6–2	0.750	11	0	Beat Eureka 6–0
11	1	2.188	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	7–1	0.875	6	+5	Beat White Squadron 8–0
12	1	2.367	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	6–4	0.600	17	+8	Beat Cincinnati 10–0; Beat OHIO MEDICAL 20–12
13	-2	2.507	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	5–3–1	0.611	15	+8	Lost to Pennsylvania 0–4
14	0	2.864	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	4–3	0.571	18	+1	BYE
15	0	2.943	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	7–4	0.636	13	+22	Beat Wesleyan 12–4
16	1	3.346	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	7–3–2	0.667	12	-8	Beat Penn State 6–0
17	-1	4.006	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	5–3	0.625	14	-2	Lost to Wisconsin 0–22
18	0	4.192	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	5–3–1	0.611	15	+1	Tied Purdue Alumni 0–0
19	0	4.548	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	4–4–1	0.500	19	-13	BYE
20	1	4.688	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	3–3–1	0.500	19	-3	BYE
21	-1	4.713	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	4–4	0.500	19	-5	BYE
22	0	4.851	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	6–7	0.462	22	+3	Beat Tufts 6–0; Lost to BROWN 4–12
23	0	5.953	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	3–6	0.333	24	-7	Lost to Dickinson 0–6
24	0	6.251	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	6–7	0.462	22	-11	Lost to Wesleyan 0–6
25	0	7.197	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	3–7	0.300	25	-2	Lost to Lafayette 0–22
26	0	8.991	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	2–6–2	0.300	25	-6	Tied Swarthmore 6–6
27	0	9.109	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	2–6–2	0.300	25	-22	BYE
28	0	11.383	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	1–7–1	0.167	28	-21	BYE

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