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| Ranking of teams in all divisions based on Chi Square fit to Win/Loss | ||||||||||||||||
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| ScoreDif | Win_Loss | Schedule | Total | Division | Conference | |||||||||||
| Rank | Rating | Rank | Rating | Rank | Rating | Team | Games | Record | Rank | Games | Record | Name | Rank | Games | Record | Name |
| 1 | 35.95 | 1 | 26.60 | 16 | 10.62 | Yale | 13 | 13-0-0 | 1 | 12 | 12-0-0 | NoDivi | 3 | 7 | 7-0-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 2 | 33.43 | 2 | 25.16 | 9 | 7.55 | Princeton | 12 | 11-1-0 | 2 | 10 | 9-1-0 | NoDivi | 1 | 7 | 7-0-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 3 | 26.95 | 3 | 18.20 | 15 | 10.41 | Harvard | 13 | 12-1-0 | 3 | 11 | 10-1-0 | NoDivi | 2 | 7 | 7-0-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 5 | 9.69 | 4 | 14.21 | 17 | 11.18 | Lehigh | 12 | 10-2-0 | 4 | 11 | 9-2-0 | NoDivi | 2 | 7 | 5-2-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 4 | 15.60 | 5 | 10.79 | 2 | 5.62 | Pennsylvania | 16 | 9-7-0 | 5 | 12 | 5-7-0 | NoDivi | 3 | 7 | 3-4-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 7 | 6.52 | 6 | 8.43 | 13 | 10.11 | Lafayette | 9 | 6-3-0 | 6 | 9 | 6-3-0 | NoDivi | 4 | 6 | 3-3-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 9 | 3.42 | 7 | 3.54 | 12 | 9.88 | Cornell | 6 | 4-2-0 | 8 | 4 | 2-2-0 | NoDivi | 1 | 1 | 1-0-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 6 | 7.81 | 8 | 3.38 | 18 | 11.90 | Dartmouth | 7 | 3-4-0 | 7 | 5 | 3-2-0 | NoDivi | 4 | 4 | 3-1-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 8 | 4.49 | 9 | 2.43 | 1 | 5.22 | Wesleyan University | 9 | 2-7-0 | 9 | 9 | 2-7-0 | NoDivi | 6 | 6 | 1-5-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 11 | -3.45 | 10 | 0.84 | 19 | 15.50 | Trinity College CT | 7 | 5-1-1 | 11 | 6 | 4-1-1 | NoDivi | 1 | 4 | 3-1-0 | NoConf |
| 10 | 2.97 | 11 | -0.89 | 14 | 10.12 | Williams College | 8 | 4-4-0 | 10 | 8 | 4-4-0 | NoDivi | 5 | 6 | 2-4-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 15 | -8.52 | 12 | -3.92 | 10 | 9.50 | Haverford | 3 | 1-2-0 | 12 | 3 | 1-2-0 | NoDivi | 3 | 1 | 1-0-0 | NoConf |
| 13 | -6.55 | 13 | -5.62 | 7 | 7.10 | Worcester Tech | 5 | 1-4-0 | 13 | 5 | 1-4-0 | NoDivi | 2 | 2 | 1-1-0 | NoConf |
| 12 | -5.60 | 14 | -6.38 | 6 | 7.00 | Stevens Tech | 8 | 1-6-1 | 14 | 8 | 1-6-1 | NoDivi | 6 | 4 | 0-3-1 | Eastern Indep |
| 14 | -7.12 | 15 | -8.04 | 8 | 7.17 | MIT | 6 | 1-5-0 | 15 | 6 | 1-5-0 | NoDivi | 7 | 6 | 1-5-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 16 | -8.98 | 16 | -8.29 | 3 | 5.64 | Rutgers | 8 | 1-6-1 | 16 | 7 | 0-6-1 | NoDivi | 5 | 5 | 0-4-1 | Eastern Indep |
| 19 | -22.78 | 17 | -13.99 | 4 | 6.33 | Bucknell | 5 | 2-3-0 | 17 | 3 | 0-3-0 | NoDivi | 7 | 2 | 0-2-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 17 | -15.51 | 18 | -15.25 | 5 | 6.70 | Swarthmore College | 5 | 0-5-0 | 19 | 5 | 0-5-0 | NoDivi | 5 | 1 | 0-1-0 | NoConf |
| 18 | -21.14 | 19 | -16.64 | 11 | 9.60 | Amherst College | 11 | 2-8-1 | 18 | 11 | 2-8-1 | NoDivi | 8 | 7 | 0-7-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 20 | -47.19 | 20 | -34.55 | 20 | 15.83 | Massachusetts | 3 | 0-3-0 | 20 | 3 | 0-3-0 | NoDivi | 4 | 1 | 0-1-0 | NoConf |
| Unrated teams with less than 3 games against rated teams | Navy | 1 | 0-1-0 | |||||||||||||
| Penn State | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Dickinson College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| John Hopkins | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Union College NY | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Andover | 2 | 1-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Crescent Athletic Club | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Exeter | 2 | 1-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Palmyra | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Philadelphia All-Stars | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Ridgefield AC | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint John's NY | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Tioga | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Wyoming Seminary | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
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Soren Sorensen - Updated Sun Jan 25 01:28:23 2026