1896

1897 Rankings
​Final

1898

Rk	Team	Record		Rating	Conference
1	Pennsylvania	(15-0-0)		0.7162	Independent
2	Princeton	(10-1-0)		0.6643	Independent
3	Yale	(9-0-2)		0.6622	Independent
4	Harvard	(10-1-1)		0.5985	Independent
5	Army	(6-1-1)		0.5639	Independent
6	Chicago	(11-1-0)		0.4284	Western
7	Lafayette	(9-2-1)		0.4255	Independent
8	Navy	(7-1-0)		0.3986	Independent
9	Wisconsin	(9-1-0)		0.3876	Western
10	Cornell	(5-3-1)		0.3306	Independent
11	Brown	(7-4-0)		0.3212	Independent
12	Carlisle	(6-4-0)		0.3141	Independent
13	Dartmouth	(4-3-0)		0.2321	Independent
14	Illinois	(6-2-0)		0.2274	Western
15	Michigan	(6-1-1)		0.2242	Western
16	Virginia	(6-2-1)		0.1695	Independent
17	Wesleyan	(6-7-0)		0.1529	Independent
18	Northwestern	(5-3-0)		0.0410	Western
19	Bucknell	(3-3-1)		0.0154	Independent
20	Penn State	(3-6-0)		0.0064	Independent
21	Dickinson	(7-3-2)		0.0046	Independent
22	Trinity (Connecticut)	(4-4-1)		-0.0214	Independent
23	Lehigh	(3-7-0)		-0.0710	Independent
24	Minnesota	(4-4-0)		-0.1244	Western
25	Beloit	(0-3-0)		-0.1297	Independent
26	Tufts	(6-7-0)		-0.1782	Independent
27	Purdue	(5-3-1)		-0.2305	Western
28	Bloomsburg	(0-4-0)		-0.2736	Independent
29	Lake Forest	(0-3-0)		-0.3331	Independent
30	Franklin & Marshall	(2-6-2)		-0.3806	Independent
31	Amherst	(2-6-2)		-0.4480	Independent
32	Williams	(1-7-1)		-0.6060	Independent
33	Massachusetts	(0-3-0)		-0.6855	Independent

Rk	Conference	Rating
1	Western	0.1362
2	Independent	0.0942