1898 Week 7 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 | 1 | 0.227 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +5 | Beat Mansfield 50–0; Beat BROWN 18–0 |
| 2 | 4 | 0.355 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Franklin & Marshall 58–0 |
| 3 | 4 | 0.490 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +7 | Beat Amherst 53–2 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.493 |  Wisconsin (WISCONSIN) |  B10 | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Madison High 21–0; Beat DIXON 76–0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0.636 | Carlisle (CARLISLE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | BYE |
| 6 | -3 | 0.842 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Wesleyan 27–8 |
| 7 | 11 | 0.928 |  Navy (NAVY) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Bucknell 11–0 |
| 8 | 3 | 0.928 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Amherst 34–0; Beat WILLIAMS 23–0 |
| 9 | -1 | 0.963 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Syracuse 30–0 |
| 10 | -1 | 1.011 |  Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN) | B10 | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Beloit 17–11 |
| 11 | 1 | 1.341 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | B10 | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Kenyon 29–0 |
| 12 | 3 | 1.578 | Chicago (CHICAGO) | B10 | 10–0–1 | 0.955 | 13 | 0 | Beat Physicians & Surgeons 22–0; Beat IOWA 38–0 |
| 13 | 3 | 1.581 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Haverford 24–0 |
| 14 | 3 | 1.875 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 31 | 0 | BYE |
| 15 | -5 | 2.224 |  Beloit (BELOIT) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 14 | 0 | Lost to Northwestern 11–17 |
| 16 | 7 | 2.611 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 15 | +1 | Beat Bowdoin 35–6 |
| 17 | -4 | 2.687 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 15 | 0 | Beat Tufts 29–6; Lost to PENNSYLVANIA 0–18 |
| 18 | 4 | 2.769 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 15 | +1 | Beat Lafayette 5–0 |
| 19 | -18 | 3.104 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 19 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–34; Lost to HARVARD 2–53 |
| 20 | 0 | 3.902 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–1–1 | 0.500 | 19 | 0 | Lost to Navy 0–11 |
| 21 | 6 | 3.939 |  Minnesota (MINNESOTA) | B10 | 2–1 | 0.667 | 15 | 0 | Beat Rush Medical 12–0 |
| 22 | 2 | 5.075 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 27 | 0 | Lost to Army 8–27 |
| 23 | -2 | 5.536 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 2–3 | 0.400 | 21 | 0 | Lost to Union (NEW YORK) 0–6; Lost to YALE 0–23 |
| 24 | 1 | 6.626 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 22 | 0 | Lost to NEW York University 0–10 |
| 25 | 1 | 7.057 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 22 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–58 |
| 26 | -12 | 7.124 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 22 | -1 | Lost to Washington & Jefferson 0–16; Lost to PENN STATE 0–5 |
| 27 | 2 | 7.454 |  Bowdoin (BOWDOIN) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 26 | -1 | Lost to Dartmouth 6–35 |
| 28 | 0 | 7.859 |  Illinois (ILLINOIS) | B10 | 1–2 | 0.333 | 22 | 0 | Lost to Notre Dame 0–5 |
| 29 | 1 | 8.925 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 27 | -2 | BYE |
| 30 | 1 | 11.525 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 27 | -1 | Lost to Brown 6–29; Lost to WORCESTER TECH 5–17 |
| 31 | -12 | 13.475 |  Purdue (PURDUE) | B10 | 0–1 | 0.000 | 27 | 0 | Lost to Purdue Alumni 0–6 |