1895

1896 Rankings
​Final

1897

Rk	Team	Record		Rating	Conference
1	Princeton	(10-0-1)		0.7204	Independent
2	Yale	(13-1-0)		0.6250	Independent
3	Pennsylvania	(14-1-0)		0.6223	Independent
4	Lafayette	(11-0-1)		0.5641	Independent
5	Michigan	(9-1-0)		0.4788	Western
6	Wisconsin	(7-1-1)		0.4661	Western
7	Chicago	(15-2-1)		0.3666	Western
8	Northwestern	(6-1-2)		0.3536	Western
9	Minnesota	(8-2-0)		0.3347	Western
10	Dartmouth	(5-2-1)		0.3323	Independent
11	Harvard	(7-4-0)		0.3094	Independent
12	Army	(3-2-1)		0.2899	Independent
13	Carlisle	(5-5-0)		0.2836	Independent
14	Brown	(4-5-1)		0.2684	Independent
15	Illinois	(4-2-1)		0.2619	Western
16	Cornell	(5-3-1)		0.2193	Independent
17	Purdue	(4-2-1)		0.2062	Western
18	Williams	(6-4-1)		0.2027	Independent
19	Navy	(5-3-0)		0.1394	Independent
20	Wesleyan	(4-5-1)		0.1212	Independent
21	Bucknell	(5-2-1)		0.1115	Independent
22	Penn State	(3-4-0)		0.0591	Independent
23	Trinity (Connecticut)	(5-3-1)		0.0497	Independent
24	Lehigh	(2-5-0)		-0.0134	Independent
25	Dickinson	(4-5-0)		-0.0161	Independent
26	Amherst	(3-6-1)		-0.0681	Independent
27	Lake Forest	(3-4-1)		-0.1104	Independent
28	Oberlin	(0-3-0)		-0.1519	Independent
29	Bowdoin	(5-3-2)		-0.1931	Independent
30	Franklin & Marshall	(3-4-2)		-0.2153	Independent
31	Andover	(1-2-0)		-0.2257	Independent
32	Gettysburg	(1-3-0)		-0.4155	Independent
33	Tufts	(2-6-1)		-0.4887	Independent
34	Worcester Tech	(0-4-0)		-0.5682	Independent
35	Rutgers	(0-3-0)		-0.6290	Independent

Rk	Conference	Rating
1	Western	0.3526
2	Independent	0.0651