1898 Week 14 College Football Team Rankings

November 29, 1898By PowerUpRankings.com • Posted in 1898 Season Tags: • No Comments

1898 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	1	0.501	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	12–1	0.923	4	+58	Beat Cornell 12–6
2	-1	0.556	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	11–0	1.000	1	+55	BYE
3	0	0.584	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	11–0–1	0.958	3	+48	BYE
4	1	1.046	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	9–1	0.900	5	+15	Beat Northwestern 47–0
5	-1	1.158	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	10–0	1.000	1	+31	Beat Chicago 12–11
6	0	1.592	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	10–2	0.833	8	+12	Lost to Pennsylvania 6–12
7	0	1.637	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	14–2–1	0.853	7	+24	Lost to Michigan 11–12
8	0	1.653	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	9–2	0.818	9	+30	BYE
9	0	1.835	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	7–1	0.875	6	+16	Beat Virginia Military Institute 21–5
10	1	2.172	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	7–3	0.700	12	+13	BYE
11	1	2.488	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	3–2–1	0.583	17	+9	BYE
12	-2	2.523	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	8–2	0.800	10	-1	Lost to Penn State 0–34
13	1	2.673	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	5–4	0.556	18	+10	BYE
14	4	2.946	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	6–4	0.600	15	+13	Beat Dickinson 34–0
15	-2	3.049	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	9–4–1	0.679	14	-4	Lost to Wisconsin 0–47
16	-1	3.099	Bowdoin (BOWDOIN)	IND FBSI	8–3	0.727	11	-3	Beat Exeter 12–5
17	-1	3.157	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	6–4	0.600	15	+3	BYE
18	1	3.325	M.i.t. (M.I.T.)	IND FBSI	3–1–1	0.700	12	-4	Beat Tufts 8–6
19	-2	4.089	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	5–5	0.500	19	+8	Lost to Cincinnati 12–17
20	0	5.016	Beloit (BELOIT)	IND FBSI	4–5–1	0.450	23	-7	Lost to Knox 0–18
21	3	5.296	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	4–5–1	0.450	23	-5	BYE
22	4	5.432	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	4–4–2	0.500	19	-3	Beat Haverford 11–0
23	-2	5.580	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	3–3	0.500	19	-2	Lost to Oberlin 0–10
24	-2	5.710	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	4–4–3	0.500	19	-13	Lost to Buffalo 5–36
25	-2	5.857	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	4–5	0.444	25	+3	Lost to Illinois 10–11
26	1	5.957	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	4–5	0.444	25	0	Beat Minnesota 11–10
27	-2	6.664	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	3–6–1	0.350	27	-9	Lost to Lafayette 5–11
28	1	7.206	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	3–8	0.273	29	-19	Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 24–0
29	1	7.417	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	3–8	0.273	29	-9	Beat Lehigh 11–5
30	-2	8.240	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	2–5–2	0.333	28	-20	Lost to Williams 0–24
31	0	10.564	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	1–9	0.100	31	-13	Lost to M.i.t. 6–8

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