1903 Final College Football Team Rankings

January 5, 1904By PowerUpRankings.com • Posted in 1903 Season Tags: • No Comments

1903 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	0	0.624	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	11–0	1.000	1	+75	BYE
2	0	0.970	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	11–0–1	0.958	4	+30	BYE
3	0	1.062	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	14–0–1	0.967	3	+39	BYE
4	0	1.124	Nebraska (NEBRASKA)	IND FBSI	11–0	1.000	1	+48	BYE
5	0	1.183	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	11–1	0.917	5	+49	BYE
6	0	1.190	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	9–1	0.900	6	+47	BYE
7	0	1.549	Vanderbilt (VANDERBILT)	IND FBSI	6–1–1	0.813	16	+20	BYE
8	0	1.602	Columbia (COLUMBIA)	IND FBSI	9–1	0.900	6	+36	BYE
9	0	1.623	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	12–2–1	0.833	11	+33	BYE
10	0	1.709	Sewanee (SEWANEE)	IND FBSI	7–1	0.875	9	+14	BYE
11	1	1.804	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	9–2–1	0.792	20	+24	BYE
12	-1	1.820	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	11–2–1	0.821	13	+33	Beat Sherman 12–6
13	0	1.823	Cumberland (CUMBERLAND)	IND FBSI	4–1–1	0.750	22	+8	BYE
14	0	1.878	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	9–3	0.750	22	+30	BYE
15	0	1.915	Texas (TEXAS)	IND FBSI	5–1–2	0.750	22	+14	BYE
16	0	1.976	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	10–1–3	0.821	13	+15	BYE
17	0	1.988	Iowa State (IOWA STATE)	IND FBSI	8–1	0.889	8	+12	BYE
18	0	2.129	Colorado (COLORADO)	IND FBSI	8–2	0.800	17	+19	BYE
19	0	2.150	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	6–2–1	0.722	28	+28	BYE
20	0	2.192	Haskell (HASKELL)	IND FBSI	7–2	0.778	21	+20	BYE
21	0	2.207	Colorado State (COLORADO STATE)	IND FBSI	6–1	0.857	10	+17	BYE
22	0	2.239	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	9–3	0.750	22	+35	BYE
23	0	2.248	Iowa (IOWA)	B10	9–2	0.818	15	+25	BYE
24	0	2.292	Virginia Tech (VIRGINIA TECH)	IND FBSI	5–1	0.833	11	+8	BYE
25	0	2.305	Holy Cross (HOLY CROSS)	IND FBSI	8–2	0.800	17	+23	BYE
26	0	2.394	Clemson (CLEMSON)	IND FBSI	4–1–1	0.750	22	+2	BYE
27	0	2.591	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	6–3–1	0.650	36	+5	BYE
28	0	2.758	Georgetown (GEORGETOWN)	IND FBSI	7–3	0.700	29	+6	BYE
29	0	2.777	South Carolina (SOUTH CAROLINA)	IND FBSI	8–2	0.800	17	+6	BYE
30	0	2.873	Virginia (VIRGINIA)	IND FBSI	7–2–1	0.750	22	-5	BYE
31	0	2.962	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	7–3	0.700	29	+10	BYE
32	0	2.979	North Carolina (NORTH CAROLINA)	IND FBSI	6–3	0.667	33	+15	BYE
33	0	3.186	Drake (DRAKE)	IND FBSI	5–3	0.625	38	+5	BYE
34	0	3.198	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	8–6	0.571	44	+4	BYE
35	0	3.216	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	7–3	0.700	29	-3	BYE
36	0	3.239	Kansas (KANSAS)	IND FBSI	6–3	0.667	33	+12	BYE
37	0	3.421	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	6–3–1	0.650	36	0	BYE
38	0	3.522	Colorado Mines (COLORADO MINES)	IND FBSI	3–3	0.500	51	+5	BYE
39	0	3.567	Lombard (LOMBARD)	IND FBSI	5–3	0.625	38	-1	BYE
40	0	3.589	Texas A&M (TEXAS A & M)	IND FBSI	7–3–1	0.682	32	+3	BYE
41	0	3.625	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	5–3	0.625	38	-5	BYE
42	0	3.654	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	4–2	0.667	33	-5	BYE
43	0	3.732	Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE)	IND FBSI	6–4	0.600	41	-5	BYE
44	0	3.886	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	6–4–1	0.591	42	+1	BYE
45	0	4.096	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	5–4–1	0.550	49	+6	BYE
46	0	4.120	Massachusetts (MASSACHUSETTS)	IND FBSI	5–4	0.556	47	-1	BYE
47	0	4.178	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	7–5	0.583	43	-2	BYE
48	0	4.428	Grinnell (GRINNELL)	IND FBSI	5–4	0.556	47	-3	BYE
49	0	4.481	Baylor (BAYLOR)	IND FBSI	4–3–1	0.563	46	-7	BYE
50	0	4.544	Washington (missouri) (WASHINGTON (MISSOURI))	IND FBSI	4–4–1	0.500	51	-7	BYE
51	0	4.743	Auburn (AUBURN)	IND FBSI	4–3	0.571	44	-7	BYE
52	0	4.782	Oklahoma (OKLAHOMA)	IND FBSI	5–4–3	0.542	50	+3	BYE
53	0	4.868	Denver (DENVER)	IND FBSI	6–7	0.462	54	-14	BYE
54	0	5.020	Indiana (INDIANA)	B10	4–4	0.500	51	+6	BYE
55	0	5.210	Georgia (GEORGIA)	IND FBSI	3–4	0.429	59	+6	BYE
56	0	5.235	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	4–5	0.444	55	-4	BYE
57	0	5.274	Vermont (VERMONT)	IND FBSI	4–5	0.444	55	-12	BYE
58	0	5.283	Alabama (ALABAMA)	IND FBSI	3–4	0.429	59	+5	BYE
59	0	5.335	Colorado College (COLORADO COLLEGE)	IND FBSI	4–5	0.444	55	-2	BYE
60	0	5.418	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	3–6–1	0.350	64	-12	BYE
61	0	5.543	Tennessee (TENNESSEE)	IND FBSI	4–5	0.444	55	-10	BYE
62	0	5.945	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	4–7–1	0.375	61	-3	BYE
63	0	6.734	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	5–9	0.357	63	-15	BYE
64	0	7.159	Knox (KNOX)	IND FBSI	4–7	0.364	62	-9	BYE
65	0	7.467	Simpson (SIMPSON)	IND FBSI	1–4	0.200	67	-9	BYE
66	0	7.642	Georgia Tech (GEORGIA TECH)	IND FBSI	2–5	0.286	66	-15	BYE
67	0	8.008	Beloit (BELOIT)	IND FBSI	3–7	0.300	65	-12	BYE
68	0	8.626	Missouri (MISSOURI)	IND FBSI	1–7–1	0.167	68	-18	BYE
69	0	9.206	Cornell (iowa) (CORNELL (IOWA))	IND FBSI	1–8	0.111	69	-12	BYE
70	0	10.485	TCU	IND FBSI	0–7	0.000	70	-15	BYE

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