1897 Week 9 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 | 0 | 0.260 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +12 | Beat Franklin & Marshall 54–0; Beat CORNELL 10–0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0.387 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 10–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +14 | Beat Penn State 24–0; Beat LAFAYETTE 46–0 |
| 3 | 5 | 0.948 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +13 | Beat Brown 18–14; Beat CARLISLE 24–9 |
| 4 | 0 | 1.000 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +9 | Beat Newton A.c. 24–0; Beat BROWN 18–0; Beat NEWTOWNE A.C. 22–0 |
| 5 | 1 | 1.015 | Chicago (CHICAGO) |  B10 | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Northwestern 21–6 |
| 6 | 4 | 1.043 |  Illinois (ILLINOIS) | B10 | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Purdue 34–4 |
| 7 | 7 | 1.203 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 11 | +10 | Beat Tufts 30–0 |
| 8 | -1 | 1.315 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | B10 | 3–0–1 | 0.875 | 8 | 0 | Beat Oberlin 16–6 |
| 9 | 2 | 1.328 |  Wisconsin (WISCONSIN) | B10 | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Madison High 29–0 |
| 10 | -5 | 2.040 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 5–1–1 | 0.786 | 10 | +2 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–46 |
| 11 | -8 | 2.074 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 4–2 | 0.667 | 15 | +7 | Lost to Yale 14–18; Lost to HARVARD 0–18 |
| 12 | 0 | 2.359 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 3–1–1 | 0.700 | 14 | +4 | Lost to Princeton 0–10 |
| 13 | 0 | 2.465 | Carlisle (CARLISLE) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 17 | +5 | Lost to Yale 9–24 |
| 14 | -5 | 2.613 |  Minnesota (MINNESOTA) | B10 | 4–1 | 0.800 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Iowa State 10–12 |
| 15 | 0 | 2.990 |  Navy (NAVY) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 11 | +1 | Beat Penn State 4–0 |
| 16 | 1 | 3.436 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 2–2–1 | 0.500 | 17 | +2 | Beat Lehigh 28–20 |
| 17 | 6 | 3.529 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 16 | -1 | Beat NEW York University 32–0 |
| 18 | -2 | 3.650 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 5–2 | 0.714 | 13 | -5 | Lost to Lehigh 0–5; Beat VILLANOVA 52–0 |
| 19 | 3 | 4.121 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 17 | -2 | Beat Williams 22–0 |
| 20 | -1 | 4.732 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 24 | 0 | BYE |
| 21 | 0 | 5.196 |  Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN) | B10 | 2–2 | 0.500 | 17 | 0 | Lost to Chicago 6–21 |
| 22 | -4 | 5.266 |  Purdue (PURDUE) | B10 | 2–2 | 0.500 | 17 | 0 | Lost to Illinois 4–34 |
| 23 | -3 | 5.599 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 4–4 | 0.500 | 17 | -4 | Lost to Army 0–30 |
| 24 | 1 | 6.253 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 2–3 | 0.400 | 23 | +3 | Beat Dickinson 5–0; Lost to BUCKNELL 20–28 |
| 25 | -1 | 6.606 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 1–4 | 0.200 | 26 | -2 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–24; Lost to NAVY 0–4 |
| 26 | 1 | 7.198 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 25 | -3 | Beat Massachusetts 20–4 |
| 27 | -1 | 9.652 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 1–5 | 0.167 | 27 | -1 | Lost to Princeton 0–54; Lost to HAVERFORD 10–12 |
| 28 | 0 | 11.319 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 0–5 | 0.000 | 28 | -6 | Lost to Wesleyan 0–22 |