1897

1898 Rankings
​Final

1899

Rk	Team	Record		Rating	Conference
1	Harvard	(11-0-0)		0.7737	Independent
2	Princeton	(11-0-1)		0.6954	Independent
3	Pennsylvania	(12-1-0)		0.6518	Independent
4	Yale	(9-2-0)		0.5750	Independent
5	Michigan	(10-0-0)		0.4947	Western
6	Navy	(7-1-0)		0.4704	Independent
7	Army	(3-2-1)		0.4427	Independent
8	Wesleyan	(7-3-0)		0.4290	Independent
9	Wisconsin	(9-1-0)		0.4049	Western
10	Cornell	(10-2-0)		0.3924	Independent
11	Chicago	(14-2-1)		0.3810	Western
12	Carlisle	(6-4-0)		0.3546	Independent
13	Brown	(6-4-0)		0.3028	Independent
14	Dickinson	(8-2-0)		0.2509	Independent
15	Penn State	(6-4-0)		0.2491	Independent
16	MIT	(3-1-1)		0.2093	Independent
17	Northwestern	(9-4-1)		0.1906	Western
18	Bowdoin	(8-3-1)		0.1579	Independent
19	Dartmouth	(5-6-0)		0.1297	Independent
20	Amherst	(4-5-1)		0.1129	Independent
21	Virginia	(6-5-0)		0.1067	Independent
22	Physicians & Surgeons	(1-2-0)		0.0990	Independent
23	Holy Cross	(1-2-0)		0.0531	Independent
24	Lehigh	(3-6-1)		0.0528	Independent
25	Franklin & Marshall	(4-4-2)		0.0491	Independent
26	Illinois	(4-5-0)		0.0064	Western
27	Bucknell	(4-4-3)		-0.0025	Independent
28	Beloit	(4-5-1)		-0.0045	Independent
29	Williams	(3-8-0)		-0.0209	Independent
30	Lafayette	(3-8-0)		-0.0358	Independent
31	Exeter	(1-2-0)		-0.0529	Independent
32	Minnesota	(4-5-0)		-0.0566	Western
33	Trinity (Connecticut)	(2-5-2)		-0.0633	Independent
34	Purdue	(3-3-0)		-0.0917	Western
35	Boston College	(0-3-0)		-0.1414	Independent
36	Dixon	(0-2-1)		-0.1506	Independent
37	Tufts	(1-9-0)		-0.2303	Independent
38	Rush Medical	(0-4-0)		-0.2654	Independent
39	Susquehanna	(0-4-0)		-0.2941	Independent
40	Gettysburg	(0-4-0)		-0.3216	Independent

Average Ratings by Conference (1898)

Rk	Conference		Rating
1	Western		0.1899
2	Independent		0.1508