1895

1896 Rankings
​Final

1897

Rk	Team	Record		Rating	Conference
1	Princeton	(10-0-1)		0.6709	Independent
2	Yale	(13-1-0)		0.5948	Independent
3	Pennsylvania	(14-1-0)		0.5870	Independent
4	Lafayette	(11-0-1)		0.5156	Independent
5	Michigan	(9-1-0)		0.4497	Western
6	Wisconsin	(7-1-1)		0.4456	Western
7	Northwestern	(6-1-2)		0.3971	Western
8	Chicago	(15-2-1)		0.3855	Western
9	Dartmouth	(5-2-1)		0.3489	Independent
10	Harvard	(7-4-0)		0.3411	Independent
11	Minnesota	(8-2-0)		0.3198	Western
12	Army	(3-2-1)		0.3046	Independent
13	Carlisle	(5-5-0)		0.2997	Independent
14	Brown	(4-5-1)		0.2811	Independent
15	Illinois	(4-2-1)		0.2645	Western
16	Cornell	(5-3-1)		0.2577	Independent
17	Williams	(6-4-1)		0.2394	Independent
18	Bucknell	(5-2-1)		0.2142	Independent
19	Purdue	(4-2-1)		0.2059	Western
20	Wesleyan	(4-5-1)		0.1838	Independent
21	Navy	(5-3-0)		0.1794	Independent
22	Trinity (Connecticut)	(5-3-1)		0.1642	Independent
23	Penn State	(3-4-0)		0.0871	Independent
24	Amherst	(3-6-1)		0.0778	Independent
25	Dickinson	(4-5-0)		0.0664	Independent
26	Lake Forest	(3-4-1)		0.0227	Independent
27	Bowdoin	(5-3-2)		0.0163	Independent
28	Lehigh	(2-5-0)		-0.0043	Independent
29	Franklin & Marshall	(3-4-2)		-0.0059	Independent
30	Oberlin	(0-3-0)		-0.1288	Independent
31	Andover	(1-2-0)		-0.1490	Independent
32	Tufts	(2-6-1)		-0.2107	Independent
33	Gettysburg	(1-3-0)		-0.2736	Independent
34	Worcester Tech	(0-4-0)		-0.4317	Independent
35	Rutgers	(0-3-0)		-0.4757	Independent

Average Ratings by Conference (1896)

Rk	Conference		Rating
1	Western		0.3526
2	Independent		0.1348