1920 Week 7 College Football Team Rankings

October 12, 1920By PowerUpRankings.com • Posted in 1920 Season Tags: • No Comments

1920 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	32	0.782	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	1–0	1.000	1	+2	Beat Drake 41–0
2	37	0.930	Rice (RICE)	IND SWC	1–0	1.000	1	+2	Beat Baylor 28–0
3	12	0.964	Centre (CENTRE)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Samford 120–0
4	-2	1.062	Georgia Tech (GEORGIA TECH)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Davidson 66–0
5	-4	1.089	Vanderbilt (VANDERBILT)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+3	Beat Tennessee 20–0
6	-1	1.104	Virginia Military Institute (VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	+2	Beat Virginia 22–6
7	-4	1.151	Texas A&M (TEXAS A & M)	IND SWC	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat SMU 3–0
8	20	1.157	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	1–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Purdue 20–0
9	-5	1.174	Georgia (GEORGIA)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat South Carolina 37–0
10	14	1.308	California (CALIFORNIA)	PAC	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat ST. Mary's 127–0
11	-2	1.327	Iowa (IOWA)	B10	2–0	1.000	1	+2	Beat Cornell (IOWA) 63–0
12	34	1.406	Pittsburgh (PITTSBURGH)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat West Virginia 34–13
13	-5	1.406	Tulane (TULANE)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Mississippi College 29–0
14	35	1.423	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat North Carolina 21–0
15	10	1.478	Alabama (ALABAMA)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Birmingham Southern 45–0
16	-10	1.599	Auburn (AUBURN)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Fort Benning 14–2
17	15	1.599	Florida (FLORIDA)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Newberry 21–0
18	-8	1.610	Texas (TEXAS)	IND SWC	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Howard Payne 41–7
19	3	1.614	LSU	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Spring Hill 40–0
20	54	1.616	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Minnesota 17–0
21	-4	1.650	Washington & LEE (WASHINGTON & LEE)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Wake Forest 27–0
22	39	1.661	Washington & Jefferson (WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON)	IND FBSI	2–0–1	0.833	52	0	Beat Kalamazoo 67–0
23	21	1.663	Syracuse (SYRACUSE)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Johns Hopkins 45–0
24	-6	1.673	Kentucky (KENTUCKY)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Maryville 31–0
25	48	1.673	Nebraska (NEBRASKA)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Colorado State 7–0
26	-3	1.678	Ohio State (OHIO STATE)	B10	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Oberlin 37–0
27	-7	1.707	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Michigan State 27–0
28	23	1.718	Missouri (MISSOURI)	IND B8	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat ST. Louis 44–0
29	47	1.724	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Maryland 35–0
30	30	1.727	Virginia Tech (VIRGINIA TECH)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Emory & Henry 75–6
31	22	1.741	Notre Dame (NOTRE DAME)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Western Michigan 42–0
32	25	1.743	Furman (FURMAN)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Citadel 21–6
33	-7	1.762	Clemson (CLEMSON)	IND FBSI	3–0–1	0.875	51	0	Beat Wofford 13–7
34	20	1.769	Colorado College (COLORADO COLLEGE)	IND SKY	1–0	1.000	1	0	BYE
35	24	1.775	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	2–0–1	0.833	52	+1	Beat Rutgers 9–0
36	35	1.777	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Dartmouth 14–7
37	-16	1.792	Mercer (MERCER)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Stetson 19–6
38	-4	1.803	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Case 35–0
39	4	1.803	Washington State (WASHINGTON STATE)	PAC	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Gonzaga 35–0
40	32	1.809	Kansas State (KANSAS STATE)	IND B8	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Camp Funston 55–0
41	-14	1.835	Arkansas (ARKANSAS)	IND SWC	0–0–1	0.500	61	0	Tied Hendrix 0–0
42	-13	1.835	Colgate (COLGATE)	IND FBSI	0–0–2	0.500	61	0	Tied Allegheny 7–7
43	-13	1.835	Colorado (COLORADO)	IND SKY	0–0	0.000	93	0	BYE
44	-13	1.835	Colorado Mines (COLORADO MINES)	IND SKY	0–0	0.000	93	0	BYE
45	-8	1.835	Oregon State (OREGON STATE)	PAC	0–0	0.000	93	0	BYE
46	-8	1.835	Presbyterian (PRESBYTERIAN)	IND FBSI	0–0–1	0.500	61	0	BYE
47	-7	1.835	Utah (UTAH)	IND SKY	0–0	0.000	93	0	BYE
48	31	1.854	Sewanee (SEWANEE)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Georgetown (KENTUCKY) 54–0
49	17	1.877	Washington (missouri) (WASHINGTON (MISSOURI))	IND B8	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Drury 36–0
50	28	1.888	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat ST. Bonaventure 55–7
51	-6	1.899	Kansas (KANSAS)	IND B8	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Washburn 6–0
52	11	1.954	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Valparaiso 21–0
53	17	1.962	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Maine 32–7
54	10	1.962	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Swarthmore 21–0
55	10	1.962	Tennessee Chattanooga (TENNESSEE-CHATTANOOGA)	IND FBSI	1–0–1	0.750	54	0	Tied Oglethorpe 14–14
56	-15	1.962	Utah State (UTAH STATE)	IND SKY	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Ogden A.c. 21–0
57	-15	1.985	Washington (WASHINGTON)	PAC	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Whitman 33–14
58	4	1.988	Phillips (PHILLIPS)	IND SWC	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Haskell 7–6
59	10	2.075	TCU	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Austin 9–7
60	-25	2.098	Oklahoma (OKLAHOMA)	IND B8	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Central Oklahoma 16–7
61	-25	2.121	Oregon (OREGON)	PAC	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Multnomah A.c. 7–0
62	22	2.589	Indiana (INDIANA)	B10	2–1	0.667	55	+1	Beat Mississippi State 24–0
63	-51	2.727	Colorado State (COLORADO STATE)	IND SKY	1–1	0.500	61	+1	Lost to Nebraska 0–7
64	-51	2.862	SMU	IND SWC	1–1–1	0.500	61	0	Lost to Texas A&M 0–3
65	-46	2.993	Drake (DRAKE)	IND B8	2–1	0.667	55	0	Lost to Illinois 0–41
66	-18	2.998	Virginia (VIRGINIA)	IND FBSI	2–1	0.667	55	0	Lost to Virginia Military Institute 6–22
67	-20	3.027	Tennessee (TENNESSEE)	IND FBSI	2–1	0.667	55	0	Lost to Vanderbilt 0–20
68	-12	3.381	Baylor (BAYLOR)	IND SWC	2–1	0.667	55	0	Lost to Rice 0–28
69	-11	3.416	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	61	0	Lost to Penn State 7–14
70	-15	3.465	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	1–1	0.500	61	0	Lost to Northwestern 0–17
71	-55	3.521	North Carolina (NORTH CAROLINA)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	61	0	Lost to Yale 0–21
72	15	3.637	Oglethorpe (OGLETHORPE)	IND FBSI	1–1–1	0.500	61	0	Tied Tennessee Chattanooga 14–14
73	-59	3.693	South Carolina (SOUTH CAROLINA)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	61	0	Lost to Georgia 0–37
74	1	3.827	West Virginia (WEST VIRGINIA)	IND FBSI	1–1–1	0.500	61	0	Lost to Pittsburgh 13–34
75	2	3.864	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	1–1	0.500	61	0	Lost to Chicago 0–20
76	10	4.099	Newberry (NEWBERRY)	IND FBSI	0–2	0.000	86	0	Lost to Florida 0–21
77	-66	4.204	NC State (NORTH CAROLINA STATE)	IND FBSI	2–1	0.667	55	+1	Lost to Georgetown 0–27
78	2	4.332	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	61	0	Beat Lafayette 12–7
79	12	4.421	Southwestern (texas) (SOUTHWESTERN (TEXAS))	IND FBSI	0–1–1	0.250	84	0	Tied Texas State 3–3
80	12	4.445	Citadel (CITADEL)	IND FBSI	0–2	0.000	86	0	Lost to Furman 6–21
81	2	4.608	Wyoming (WYOMING)	IND SKY	1–1	0.500	61	0	Beat Denver 10–7
82	7	4.642	Birmingham Southern (BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN)	IND FBSI	1–2	0.333	81	0	Lost to Alabama 0–45
83	-76	4.798	Mississippi State (MISSISSIPPI STATE)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	61	-1	Lost to Indiana 0–24
84	-17	5.170	Denver (DENVER)	IND SKY	1–1	0.500	61	-1	Lost to Wyoming 7–10
85	11	5.194	Iowa State (IOWA STATE)	IND B8	1–1	0.500	61	+1	Beat Grinnell 28–0
86	-18	5.198	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	61	-1	Lost to Navy 7–12
87	-37	5.238	Grinnell (GRINNELL)	IND B8	1–1	0.500	61	-1	Lost to Iowa State 0–28
88	5	5.668	Maryland (MARYLAND)	IND FBSI	1–2	0.333	81	-2	Lost to Princeton 0–35
89	-37	5.905	Stanford (STANFORD)	PAC	1–1	0.500	61	0	Lost to Olympic Club 7–10
90	4	5.922	Rutgers (RUTGERS)	IND FBSI	1–2	0.333	81	+1	Lost to Lehigh 0–9
91	-3	6.334	Wake Forest (WAKE FOREST)	IND FBSI	0–3	0.000	86	-1	Lost to Washington & LEE 0–27
92	-7	6.433	Davidson (DAVIDSON)	IND FBSI	0–3	0.000	86	-1	Lost to Georgia Tech 0–66
93	-11	6.449	Wofford (WOFFORD)	IND FBSI	0–2	0.000	86	-1	Lost to Clemson 7–13
94	-4	7.439	Mississippi College (MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE)	IND FBSI	0–2	0.000	86	-1	Lost to Tulane 0–29
95	0	8.231	Samford (SAMFORD)	IND FBSI	0–2–1	0.167	85	0	Lost to Centre 0–120
96	-15	10.854	Oklahoma State (OKLAHOMA STATE)	IND SWC	0–2	0.000	86	-1	Lost to Tulsa 14–21