1894 NCAA Division IA Football Power Ratings

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Final power ratings for the 1894 season are listed below. Home field advantage for this year was .593 and the root for determining point spreads was 0.718.

The average home field advantage for this year is 6.60 points.

Some game locations are unknown and have been estimated. Research continues.

KEY: PR=Final power rating, PS=Pre-season power rating, SOS=strength of schedule.


Rank Team PR PS SOS PF PA Wins Losses Ties Pct Conference
1 Yale .858 .862 .286 30.31 0.81 16 0 0 1.000 Independent
2 Pennsylvania .847 .705 .297 30.50 1.67 12 0 0 1.000 Independent
3 Harvard .745 .794 .317 25.69 3.54 11 2 0 .846 Independent
4 Princeton .675 .835 .324 20.80 4.40 8 2 0 .800 Independent
5 Purdue .674 .451 .208 20.22 4.00 8 1 0 .889 Independent
6 Michigan .646 .464 .216 22.18 7.64 9 1 1 .864 Independent
7 Cornell .599 .489 .402 15.82 5.27 6 4 1 .591 Independent
8 Williams .556 .464 .268 11.20 7.50 6 3 1 .650 Independent
9 Brown .550 .389 .183 17.47 6.80 10 5 0 .667 Independent
10 Wisconsin .523 .351 .300 21.71 3.71 5 2 0 .714 Independent
11 Dartmouth .500 .436 .412 12.44 8.89 5 4 0 .556 Independent
12 Chicago .482 .409 .072 18.36 6.09 14 7 1 .659 Independent
13 Beloit .442 .215 .176 15.33 14.56 6 3 0 .667 Independent
14 Minnesota .433 .426 .308 18.50 2.00 3 1 0 .750 Independent
15 Amherst .428 .435 .195 8.46 9.69 7 5 1 .577 Independent
16 Lafayette .421 .291 .397 17.27 17.36 5 6 0 .455 Independent
17 Army .399 .332 .283 19.00 4.40 3 2 0 .600 Independent
18 Tufts .366 .345 .058 7.27 13.91 6 5 0 .545 Independent
19 Trinity (Connecticut) .341 .224 .196 6.29 9.71 4 3 0 .571 Independent
20 Lehigh .329 .494 .338 8.57 17.29 5 9 0 .357 Independent
21 Illinois .323 .362 .060 26.00 9.43 4 3 0 .571 Independent
22 Union (New York) .302 .215 .343 8.29 15.29 3 4 0 .429 Independent
23 M.I.T. .261 .285 .348 4.86 12.00 2 5 0 .286 Independent
24 Wild Card U .239 .215 .604 5.08 22.99 16 87 3 .165  
25 Lake Forest .228 .308 .060 16.57 19.14 3 4 0 .429 Independent
26 Massachusetts .208 .169 .050 7.33 11.67 3 3 0 .500 Independent
27 Northwestern .109 .333 .230 3.00 37.00 1 5 0 .167 Independent
28 Wesleyan .039 .296 .133 2.00 21.60 0 5 0 .000 Independent

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