1896 Week 13 College Football Team Rankings

November 24, 1896By PowerUpRankings.com • Posted in 1896 Season Tags: • No Comments

1896 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	0.507	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	10–0–1	0.955	3	+37	Beat Yale 24–6
2	1	0.710	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	7–0	1.000	1	+24	Beat Minnesota 6–0
3	-1	0.812	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	9–0	1.000	1	+16	Beat Wittenberg 28–0
4	0	1.006	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	13–1	0.929	5	+42	Beat Harvard 8–6
5	0	1.086	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	10–0–1	0.955	3	+23	Beat Wesleyan 18–0
6	0	1.470	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	13–1	0.929	5	+35	Lost to Princeton 6–24
7	0	1.564	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	6–1–1	0.813	8	+16	BYE
8	1	1.710	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	14–2–1	0.853	7	+9	BYE
9	-1	1.951	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	7–2	0.778	9	+4	Lost to Wisconsin 0–6
10	0	2.154	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	5–2–1	0.688	12	+3	BYE
11	0	2.238	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	4–2	0.667	13	0	BYE
12	1	2.368	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	5–2	0.714	10	+4	Beat White Squadron 11–5
13	3	2.604	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	4–2–1	0.643	15	+11	Beat Williams 10–0
14	0	2.829	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	4–2	0.667	13	-2	BYE
15	-3	2.887	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	7–4	0.636	16	+26	Lost to Pennsylvania 6–8
16	-1	2.916	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	3–2–1	0.583	19	+4	Beat Brown 8–6
17	4	3.480	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	4–4	0.500	21	0	Beat Penn State 48–5
18	2	3.545	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	5–2	0.714	10	+3	Beat Dickinson 6–0
19	-1	3.922	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	5–3	0.625	17	-5	BYE
20	-3	3.933	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	6–4–1	0.591	18	-5	Lost to Dartmouth 0–10
21	1	5.078	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	3–5–1	0.389	26	-4	Lost to Army 6–8
22	2	5.125	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	4–5–1	0.450	22	-5	Lost to Lafayette 0–18
23	-4	5.245	Bowdoin (BOWDOIN)	IND FBSI	4–3–2	0.556	20	-4	Lost to Boston A.c. 6–24
24	1	5.312	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	3–5	0.375	27	-11	Lost to Bucknell 0–6
25	-2	5.697	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	3–4	0.429	25	-4	Lost to Carlisle 5–48
26	0	5.972	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	3–4–1	0.438	23	-3	BYE
27	0	6.216	Lake Forest (LAKE FOREST)	IND FBSI	3–4–1	0.438	23	-2	BYE
28	0	6.486	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	2–5	0.286	29	-8	BYE
29	0	6.615	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	3–6–1	0.350	28	-7	Beat Worcester Tech 44–0
30	0	8.839	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	2–6–1	0.278	30	-15	Tied M.i.t. 0–0

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