1898 Week 5 College Football Team Rankings

September 27, 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	Game Status
1	0	-1.238	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Williston 100–0
2	19	-0.241	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Franklin & Marshall 41–0
3	19	0.447	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Lehigh 21–0
4	25	0.550	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 18–0
5	15	0.584	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Gettysburg 47–0
6	0	0.722	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Bloomsburg 43–0
7	4	0.791	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Williams 11–0
8	9	1.100	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Carleton 32–0
9	-6	1.238	Bowdoin (BOWDOIN)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Maine 28–0
10	9	1.238	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	2–0	1.000	1	Beat Northwest Division High 34–0; Beat ENGLEWOOD HIGH 22–0
11	-9	1.250	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
12	-8	1.250	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
13	-1	1.250	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
14	-1	1.250	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
15	0	1.250	M.i.t. (M.I.T.)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
16	0	1.250	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
17	1	1.250	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
18	5	1.250	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
19	6	1.250	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
20	6	1.250	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
21	7	1.250	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	0–0	0.000	21	BYE
22	-15	1.306	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	Beat Syracuse 28–0; Beat COLGATE 29–5
23	-14	1.375	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Susquehanna 24–0
24	-16	1.581	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Exeter 23–5
25	5	1.633	Beloit (BELOIT)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	Beat Wisconsin Whitewater 12–0
26	5	1.690	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	6–0–1	0.929	16	Beat Austin High 14–8; Beat HYDE PARK HIGH 20–0; Beat KNOX 22–0
27	-22	1.994	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	Beat Wyoming Seminary 6–0
28	-1	3.800	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	0–1	0.000	17	Lost to Harvard 0–11
29	-5	4.850	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	0–1	0.000	17	Lost to Yale 0–18
30	-16	5.300	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	0–1	0.000	17	Lost to Princeton 0–21
31	-21	8.300	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	0–1	0.000	17	Lost to Pennsylvania 0–41

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