1898 Week 6 College Football Team Rankings
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.
| Rank | Change | Rating | Team | Conf | Record | Win % | Place | NOW | Game Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0.069 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 12–0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0.103 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Gettysburg 50–0; Beat PENN STATE 40–0 |
| 3 | 8 | 0.412 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Tufts 40–0 |
| 4 | 17 | 0.412 |  Wisconsin (WISCONSIN) |  B10 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Ripon 52–0 |
| 5 | 1 | 0.636 | Carlisle (CARLISLE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Susquehanna 48–0 |
| 6 | -3 | 0.670 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Stevens 42–0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0.802 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Bowdoin 28–6; Beat DARTMOUTH 21–0 |
| 8 | 14 | 0.894 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Hamilton 41–0; Beat TRINITY (CONNECTICUT) 47–0 |
| 9 | 1 | 1.074 |  Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN) | B10 | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Hyde Park High 18–0; Beat DIXON 57–0 |
| 10 | 15 | 1.306 |  Beloit (BELOIT) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Madison High 45–0 |
| 11 | -7 | 1.392 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Wesleyan 5–0 |
| 12 | 4 | 1.478 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | B10 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Eastern Michigan 21–0 |
| 13 | -1 | 1.547 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Holy Cross 19–0 |
| 14 | 0 | 1.650 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Villanova 16–0 |
| 15 | 11 | 1.680 | Chicago (CHICAGO) | B10 | 8–0–1 | 0.944 | 16 | 0 | Beat Rush Medical 8–0; Beat MONMOUTH 24–0 |
| 16 | 7 | 1.684 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Bloomsburg 6–0 |
| 17 | -2 | 1.750 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 29 | 0 | BYE |
| 18 | -1 | 1.750 |  Navy (NAVY) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 29 | 0 | BYE |
| 19 | -1 | 1.750 |  Purdue (PURDUE) | B10 | 0–0 | 0.000 | 29 | 0 | BYE |
| 20 | 7 | 1.994 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 17 | 0 | Tied Bradford National Guard 0–0 |
| 21 | 7 | 3.514 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 18 | 0 | Beat Andover 6–0; Beat COLGATE 5–0 |
| 22 | -17 | 3.540 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 19 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–40 |
| 23 | 1 | 3.860 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 19 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–21 |
| 24 | -4 | 3.913 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 26 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–5 |
| 25 | 5 | 4.092 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 19 | 0 | Beat Rutgers 12–0 |
| 26 | 5 | 5.207 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 19 | 0 | Beat Phialdelphia Ymca 5–0 |
| 27 | -19 | 5.259 |  Minnesota (MINNESOTA) | B10 | 1–1 | 0.500 | 19 | 0 | Lost to Minnesota Alumni 0–5 |
| 28 | -15 | 5.801 |  Illinois (ILLINOIS) | B10 | 1–1 | 0.500 | 19 | 0 | Beat Illinois Wesleyan 18–0; Lost to PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS 6–11 |
| 29 | -20 | 6.238 |  Bowdoin (BOWDOIN) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 25 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 6–28; Lost to BATES 0–6 |
| 30 | -1 | 7.013 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 26 | 0 | Lost to Amherst 0–12; Lost to CORNELL 0–47 |
| 31 | -12 | 9.162 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 26 | 0 | Lost to Army 0–40 |