1897 Week 6 College Football Team Rankings
1897 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.
| Rank | Change | Rating | Team | Conf | Record | Win % | Place | NOW | Game Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | -0.076 | Carlisle (CARLISLE) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Dickinson 36–0 |
| 2 | 11 | 0.038 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Lehigh 43–0 |
| 3 | 3 | 0.455 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 38–6 |
| 4 | -3 | 0.607 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | BYE |
| 5 | -3 | 0.806 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Washington & Jefferson 18–4; Beat BUCKNELL 33–0 |
| 6 | 12 | 0.910 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 10–0; Beat WESLEYAN 30–0 |
| 7 | -4 | 1.024 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Bowdoin 24–0; Beat DARTMOUTH 13–0 |
| 8 | 9 | 1.062 |  Wisconsin (WISCONSIN) |  B10 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Lake Forest 30–0 |
| 9 | 13 | 1.113 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Wyoming Seminary 26–0; Beat PENN STATE 24–0 |
| 10 | 4 | 1.138 |  Purdue (PURDUE) | B10 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Illinois State 28–0 |
| 11 | -3 | 1.214 |  Illinois (ILLINOIS) | B10 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Eureka 26–0 |
| 12 | -2 | 1.290 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | B10 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Eastern Michigan 24–0 |
| 13 | 7 | 1.290 |  Minnesota (MINNESOTA) | B10 | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Macalester 26–0 |
| 14 | 7 | 1.413 | Chicago (CHICAGO) | B10 | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Monmouth 41–4 |
| 15 | 9 | 1.783 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Syracuse 16–0 |
| 16 | -11 | 1.793 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 27 | 0 | BYE |
| 17 | -6 | 1.793 |  Navy (NAVY) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 27 | 0 | BYE |
| 18 | -6 | 1.972 |  Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN) | B10 | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Evanston High 6–0 |
| 19 | -15 | 2.881 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 18 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–13 |
| 20 | -1 | 3.478 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 18 | 0 | Lost to Lafayette 0–24 |
| 21 | 2 | 3.964 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 17 | 0 | Lost to Carlisle 0–36 |
| 22 | 3 | 4.128 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 20 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–33 |
| 23 | 4 | 6.303 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 22 | 0 | BYE |
| 24 | -9 | 6.469 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 22 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–10; Lost to ARMY 6–38 |
| 25 | 1 | 6.973 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 20 | 0 | Lost to Boston University 6–20 |
| 26 | -10 | 7.959 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 22 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–30 |
| 27 | -18 | 10.110 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 22 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–43 |
| 28 | 0 | 13.503 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 22 | 0 | Lost to Virginia 0–38 |