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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 |
| 3 | 27.69 | 1 | 31.63 | 4 | 13.15 | Princeton | 13 | 12-1-0 | 1 | 10 | 9-1-0 | NoDivi | 1 | 5 | 5-0-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 1 | 30.83 | 2 | 31.15 | 25 | 21.75 | Harvard | 11 | 10-0-1 | 2 | 11 | 10-0-1 | NoDivi | 2 | 8 | 7-0-1 | Northeast Indep |
| 6 | 20.41 | 3 | 26.33 | 22 | 20.94 | Lafayette | 13 | 12-1-0 | 3 | 9 | 8-1-0 | NoDivi | 4 | 7 | 6-1-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 4 | 23.97 | 4 | 24.98 | 1 | 5.00 | Carlisle | 5 | 3-2-0 | 5 | 4 | 2-2-0 | NoDivi | 3 | 2 | 1-1-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 2 | 28.54 | 5 | 24.50 | 19 | 19.64 | University of Chicago | 14 | 12-0-2 | 4 | 11 | 9-0-2 | NoDivi | 1 | 4 | 4-0-0 | Western |
| 5 | 21.44 | 6 | 21.00 | 2 | 12.50 | Pennsylvania | 13 | 8-3-2 | 6 | 12 | 7-3-2 | NoDivi | 6 | 5 | 3-2-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 10 | 18.31 | 7 | 18.09 | 3 | 13.12 | Cornell | 10 | 7-3-0 | 7 | 8 | 5-3-0 | NoDivi | 1 | 3 | 3-0-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 7 | 19.87 | 8 | 15.45 | 31 | 23.33 | Yale | 10 | 7-2-1 | 8 | 10 | 7-2-1 | NoDivi | 4 | 6 | 4-1-1 | Northeast Indep |
| 13 | 11.96 | 9 | 14.56 | 21 | 20.94 | Columbia | 11 | 8-3-0 | 9 | 9 | 6-3-0 | NoDivi | 3 | 5 | 4-1-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 12 | 14.69 | 10 | 14.46 | 16 | 18.39 | Brown | 11 | 7-3-1 | 10 | 9 | 5-3-1 | NoDivi | 6 | 5 | 4-1-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 9 | 18.73 | 11 | 12.70 | 30 | 23.11 | Wisconsin | 11 | 9-2-0 | 11 | 9 | 7-2-0 | NoDivi | 2 | 5 | 4-1-0 | Western |
| 8 | 19.50 | 12 | 12.60 | 46 | 30.43 | Iowa | 9 | 8-0-1 | 12 | 7 | 6-0-1 | NoDivi | 2 | 2 | 2-0-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 14 | 9.73 | 13 | 12.48 | 40 | 27.11 | Wesleyan University | 10 | 8-2-0 | 13 | 9 | 7-2-0 | NoDivi | 5 | 8 | 7-1-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 19 | 3.65 | 14 | 11.14 | 8 | 15.38 | Bucknell | 10 | 6-4-0 | 14 | 4 | 2-2-0 | NoDivi | 9 | 4 | 2-2-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 11 | 15.09 | 15 | 10.05 | 15 | 18.10 | Michigan | 10 | 8-2-0 | 15 | 5 | 3-2-0 | NoDivi | 4 | 2 | 1-1-0 | Western |
| 18 | 4.42 | 16 | 7.29 | 12 | 16.39 | Army | 9 | 4-5-0 | 16 | 9 | 4-5-0 | NoDivi | 8 | 6 | 3-3-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 16 | 7.80 | 17 | 6.97 | 17 | 18.92 | Navy | 8 | 5-3-0 | 17 | 6 | 3-3-0 | NoDivi | 7 | 4 | 2-2-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 17 | 4.72 | 18 | 6.41 | 26 | 21.79 | Williams College | 7 | 4-3-0 | 18 | 7 | 4-3-0 | NoDivi | 7 | 7 | 4-3-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 15 | 8.41 | 19 | 5.61 | 37 | 25.21 | Notre Dame | 10 | 6-3-1 | 19 | 7 | 4-2-1 | NoDivi | 5 | 1 | 1-0-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 21 | 2.16 | 20 | 3.27 | 44 | 29.67 | Boston College | 3 | 2-1-0 | 20 | 3 | 2-1-0 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| 24 | -0.28 | 21 | 2.86 | 9 | 15.83 | Virginia | 3 | 1-2-0 | 21 | 3 | 1-2-0 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| 23 | -0.21 | 22 | 1.18 | 7 | 15.36 | Penn State | 11 | 4-6-1 | 22 | 7 | 2-5-0 | NoDivi | 11 | 5 | 1-4-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 30 | -4.99 | 23 | -0.14 | 47 | 33.00 | Tufts University | 11 | 7-4-0 | 24 | 7 | 5-2-0 | NoDivi | 9 | 7 | 5-2-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 22 | 0.04 | 24 | -0.39 | 38 | 25.33 | Beloit College | 9 | 5-2-2 | 23 | 6 | 2-2-2 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 25 | -0.47 | 25 | -1.01 | 10 | 15.88 | Rush Medical | 4 | 1-3-0 | 25 | 4 | 1-3-0 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| 27 | -2.34 | 26 | -2.82 | 34 | 24.17 | Northwestern | 12 | 6-6-0 | 26 | 9 | 4-5-0 | NoDivi | 3 | 4 | 2-2-0 | Western |
| 31 | -6.04 | 27 | -4.21 | 13 | 16.60 | Lehigh | 11 | 2-9-0 | 27 | 10 | 2-8-0 | NoDivi | 12 | 6 | 0-6-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 20 | 3.07 | 28 | -4.82 | 48 | 33.30 | Grinnell College | 7 | 4-2-1 | 28 | 5 | 3-1-1 | NoDivi | 8 | 3 | 2-1-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 29 | -4.53 | 29 | -5.69 | 43 | 28.75 | Indiana | 8 | 6-2-0 | 29 | 4 | 2-2-0 | NoDivi | 10 | 1 | 0-1-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 26 | -1.47 | 30 | -6.41 | 6 | 14.88 | Dartmouth | 9 | 2-7-0 | 30 | 8 | 1-7-0 | NoDivi | 11 | 8 | 1-7-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 35 | -10.14 | 31 | -6.71 | 33 | 24.14 | Holy Cross | 10 | 5-5-0 | 31 | 7 | 2-5-0 | NoDivi | 10 | 6 | 2-4-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 32 | -7.45 | 32 | -6.85 | 39 | 26.40 | Syracuse | 8 | 4-4-0 | 32 | 5 | 2-3-0 | NoDivi | 12 | 3 | 0-3-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 28 | -2.69 | 33 | -7.34 | 23 | 21.00 | Minnesota | 11 | 6-3-2 | 33 | 6 | 1-3-2 | NoDivi | 6 | 3 | 0-3-0 | Western |
| 38 | -14.67 | 34 | -9.39 | 24 | 21.22 | Amherst College | 12 | 4-7-1 | 34 | 10 | 2-7-1 | NoDivi | 13 | 10 | 2-7-1 | Northeast Indep |
| 37 | -11.34 | 35 | -10.15 | 27 | 22.30 | Purdue | 9 | 4-4-1 | 35 | 5 | 1-3-1 | NoDivi | 5 | 3 | 1-2-0 | Western |
| 41 | -19.39 | 36 | -11.83 | 36 | 24.62 | Trinity College CT | 5 | 1-3-1 | 36 | 5 | 1-3-1 | NoDivi | 14 | 4 | 1-2-1 | Northeast Indep |
| 34 | -9.82 | 37 | -14.19 | 29 | 22.67 | Illinois | 9 | 3-5-1 | 37 | 6 | 1-5-0 | NoDivi | 7 | 3 | 0-3-0 | Western |
| 40 | -18.17 | 38 | -14.23 | 5 | 14.83 | Rutgers | 3 | 0-3-0 | 38 | 3 | 0-3-0 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| 44 | -22.87 | 39 | -15.94 | 45 | 30.25 | Massachusetts | 10 | 7-3-0 | 40 | 4 | 1-3-0 | NoDivi | 15 | 4 | 1-3-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 36 | -10.35 | 40 | -16.27 | 14 | 18.00 | Knox College | 4 | 0-3-1 | 39 | 4 | 0-3-1 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| 39 | -17.69 | 41 | -18.00 | 41 | 27.25 | Bowdoin College | 8 | 2-6-0 | 41 | 6 | 1-5-0 | NoDivi | 17 | 5 | 0-5-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 45 | -23.03 | 42 | -19.28 | 18 | 19.12 | Lake Forest College | 4 | 0-4-0 | 42 | 4 | 0-4-0 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| 42 | -20.66 | 43 | -19.68 | 20 | 19.67 | Dickinson College | 3 | 0-3-0 | 43 | 3 | 0-3-0 | NoDivi | 14 | 2 | 0-2-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 46 | -23.58 | 44 | -20.51 | 28 | 22.33 | MIT | 6 | 0-6-0 | 45 | 6 | 0-6-0 | NoDivi | 16 | 5 | 0-5-0 | Northeast Indep |
| 33 | -9.82 | 45 | -20.54 | 42 | 27.30 | Iowa State | 10 | 5-4-1 | 44 | 5 | 1-4-0 | NoDivi | 13 | 3 | 0-3-0 | Eastern Indep |
| 47 | -25.15 | 46 | -22.86 | 32 | 24.00 | New York University | 3 | 0-3-0 | 46 | 3 | 0-3-0 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| 43 | -22.61 | 47 | -24.13 | 11 | 16.33 | Bates College | 3 | 0-3-0 | 47 | 3 | 0-3-0 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| 48 | -25.27 | 48 | -31.32 | 35 | 24.33 | Nebraska | 3 | 0-3-0 | 48 | 3 | 0-3-0 | NoDivi | 0 | 0 | 0-0-0 | NoConf |
| Unrated teams with less than 3 games against rated teams | Buffalo | 2 | 2-0-0 | |||||||||||||
| California | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Cincinnati | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Connecticut | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Michigan State | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Vanderbilt | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Colgate | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Drake | 1 | 1-0-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Georgetown | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Maine | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Northern Iowa | 2 | 0-1-1 | ||||||||||||||
| South Dakota | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Villanova | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Hillsdale College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Duquesne | 2 | 2-0-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Albion College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Carleton College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Case Western Reserve | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Colby College | 1 | 1-0-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Cornell College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Dean | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| DePauw University | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Franklin & Marshall | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Gettysburg College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Hamilton College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Illinois Wesleyan | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Kalamazoo College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Lawrence University | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Macalester College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Oberlin College | 2 | 1-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Rochester | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Rose-Hulman | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Simpson IA | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Springfield College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Susquehanna | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Union College NY | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Ursinus College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Washington and Jefferson | 2 | 0-1-1 | ||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin Whitewater | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Worcester Tech | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Andover | 1 | 1-0-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Campello | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Dixon | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Earlham College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Englewood High | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Exeter | 2 | 1-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Fitchburg YMCA | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Illinois Alumni | 1 | 0-0-1 | ||||||||||||||
| Mansfield University | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Maryland Agricultural | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Medford AC | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Minneapolis Central High | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Minnesota Alumni | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Newark Agricultural | 2 | 1-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Newton AC | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Northwestern Alumni | 1 | 1-0-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Northwestern Dental | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Panora | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Physicians & Surgeons | 2 | 1-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Pittsfield Agricultural | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Purdue Alumni | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Saint Louis | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Shamokin | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Shattuck | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Springfield YMCA | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Stevens Tech | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Swarthmore College | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Syracuse AC | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Vermont | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Western Reserve | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Williamsport | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Williston | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin Alumni | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| Wyoming Seminary | 1 | 0-1-0 | ||||||||||||||
| William Penn College | 2 | 0-2-0 | ||||||||||||||
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