1897 Week 7 College Football Team Rankings
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.
| Rank | Change | Rating | Team | Conf | Record | Win % | Place | NOW | Game Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 0.303 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Rutgers 53–0; Beat NAVY 28–0 |
| 2 | 3 | 0.493 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Gettysburg 57–0; Beat LEHIGH 58–0 |
| 3 | -2 | 0.531 | Carlisle (CARLISLE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Bloomsburg 26–0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.834 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Wesleyan 24–12; Beat BOSTON UNIVERSITY 44–0 |
| 5 | 2 | 0.882 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Amherst 38–0 |
| 6 | 3 | 0.910 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Franklin & Marshall 8–0; Beat TEMPERANCE A.C. 64–0 |
| 7 | -1 | 0.910 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Amherst 18–0; Beat WILLIAMS 32–0 |
| 8 | 6 | 1.032 | Chicago (CHICAGO) |  B10 | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Lake Forest 71–0 |
| 9 | -6 | 1.043 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Wesleyan 12–9 |
| 10 | 3 | 1.062 |  Minnesota (MINNESOTA) | B10 | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Carleton 48–6 |
| 11 | 1 | 1.290 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | B10 | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 15 | 0 | Tied Ohio Wesleyan 0–0 |
| 12 | -4 | 1.366 |  Wisconsin (WISCONSIN) | B10 | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Madison High 8–0; Beat RUSH MEDICAL 28–0 |
| 13 | 2 | 1.505 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Tufts 15–0 |
| 14 | -3 | 1.593 |  Illinois (ILLINOIS) | B10 | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Physicians & Surgeons 6–0 |
| 15 | 3 | 1.972 |  Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN) | B10 | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Beloit 6–0 |
| 16 | 3 | 2.814 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 17 | 0 | BYE |
| 17 | 4 | 3.392 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 15 | 0 | Beat Swarthmore 20–4 |
| 18 | 2 | 3.411 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 17 | 0 | BYE |
| 19 | 3 | 4.211 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–2–1 | 0.375 | 21 | 0 | Tied Pennsylvania Reserves 6–6 |
| 20 | 4 | 4.748 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 22 | 0 | Beat Massachusetts 26–5 |
| 21 | 4 | 5.695 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 2–3 | 0.400 | 20 | 0 | Beat Boston College 12–0; Lost to CORNELL 0–15 |
| 22 | 4 | 5.724 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 24 | 0 | Lost to Brown 12–24; Lost to ARMY 9–12 |
| 23 | -13 | 5.816 |  Purdue (PURDUE) | B10 | 1–1 | 0.500 | 17 | 0 | Lost to Oberlin 6–22 |
| 24 | 3 | 7.219 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 22 | 0 | Beat Williams 5–0; Lost to PENNSYLVANIA 0–58 |
| 25 | -9 | 7.876 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 24 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–18; Lost to HARVARD 0–38 |
| 26 | -9 | 7.876 |  Navy (NAVY) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 24 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–28 |
| 27 | -4 | 8.593 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 24 | -2 | Lost to Lehigh 0–5; Lost to YALE 0–32 |
| 28 | 0 | 10.690 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 24 | 0 | Lost to Lafayette 0–8 |