Pre-Season 1997 Sagarin Football Rankings (by team)

Pre-Season 1997 Sagarin Football Rankings

Rank	Team	Division	Rating
1	Nebraska	A	103.78
2	Florida	A	102.14
3	Florida St.	A	100.18
4	Ohio St.	A	97.75
5	Penn St.	A	94.19
6	Tennessee	A	93.39
7	Colorado	A	93.32
8	Notre Dame	A	91.49
9	Michigan	A	89.55
10	Miami-Florida	A	88.76
11	Washington	A	88.74
12	Kansas St.	A	87.60
13	Alabama	A	87.00
14	Arizona St.	A	86.64
15	Virginia Tech	A	86.09
16	Southern Cal	A	85.58
17	North Carolina	A	85.16
18	Syracuse	A	84.92
19	Iowa	A	84.68
20	Auburn	A	84.35
21	Virginia	A	83.65
22	Texas A&M	A	83.61
23	Texas	A	83.56
24	Brigham Young	A	82.64
25	Wisconsin	A	82.55
26	Northwestern	A	82.22
27	UCLA	A	81.58
28	LSU	A	81.50
29	Michigan St.	A	80.91
30	Oregon	A	80.75
31	Texas Tech	A	80.59
32	Stanford	A	79.57
33	Arizona	A	79.41
34	East Carolina	A	78.93
35	West Virginia	A	78.85
36	Georgia	A	78.17
37	Kansas	A	77.68
38	Southern Mississippi	A	76.99
39	Clemson	A	76.89
40	Washington St.	A	76.34
41	South Carolina	A	75.71
42	Utah	A	75.57
43	Colorado St.	A	75.24
44	Air Force	A	75.20
45	Purdue	A	75.20
46	Illinois	A	75.18
47	Wyoming	A	75.06
48	San Diego St.	A	73.80
49	Marshall	A	73.78
50	Boston College	A	73.74
51	Louisville	A	73.48
52	California	A	73.39
53	Arkansas	A	73.34
54	Baylor	A	73.30
55	Oklahoma	A	73.26
56	Indiana	A	73.00
57	Montana	AA	72.95
58	Mississippi St.	A	72.94
59	Georgia Tech	A	71.94
60	Minnesota	A	71.93
61	Cincinnati	A	71.37
62	Mississippi	A	71.30
63	No. Carolina St.	A	70.47
64	Nevada	A	70.28
65	Army	A	69.96
66	Rice	A	69.70
67	Maryland	A	69.48
68	Memphis	A	69.25
69	Kentucky	A	68.38
70	Navy	A	68.30
71	Miami-Ohio	A	67.73
72	Missouri	A	67.73
73	Houston	A	67.54
74	Oklahoma St.	A	67.40
75	TCU	A	66.81
76	New Mexico	A	66.77
77	Vanderbilt	A	66.29
78	Fresno St.	A	65.32
79	Ball St.	A	64.94
80	Iowa St.	A	64.92
81	Pittsburgh	A	64.84
82	Toledo	A	64.43
83	Tulsa	A	64.25
84	SW Louisiana	A	63.90
85	Rutgers	A	63.65
86	SMU	A	63.43
87	Duke	A	63.34
88	Oregon St.	A	63.12
89	Idaho	A	62.20
90	Northern Iowa	AA	62.08
91	Tulane	A	61.67
92	Utah St.	A	61.62
93	Northern Arizona	AA	60.63
94	Troy St.	AA	60.54
95	William & Mary	AA	60.45
96	Delaware	AA	59.72
97	Wake Forest	A	59.69
98	Bowling Green	A	59.64
99	Louisiana Tech	A	59.30
100	Central Florida	A	58.22
101	Central Michigan	A	58.20
102	Appalachian St.	AA	58.20
103	Western Michigan	A	56.74
104	Temple	A	56.45
105	Hawaii	A	56.38
106	San Jose St.	A	55.96
107	McNeese St.	AA	55.83
108	NE Louisiana	A	55.71
109	Furman	AA	55.65
110	Eastern Michigan	A	55.47
111	Weber St.	AA	55.42
112	Stephen F. Austin	AA	55.37
113	East Tennessee St.	AA	55.06
114	James Madison	AA	55.00
115	New Hampshire	AA	54.53
116	Georgia Southern	AA	53.71
117	Ohio U.	A	53.27
118	Villanova	AA	52.94
119	UTEP	A	52.91
120	Eastern Washington	AA	52.71
121	Youngstown St.	AA	52.61
122	North Texas	A	51.99
123	Eastern Illinois	AA	51.59
124	NW Louisiana	AA	51.48
125	Montana St.	AA	50.72
126	Boise St.	A	50.65
127	Eastern Kentucky	AA	50.63
128	Western Illinois	AA	50.11
129	UNLV	A	49.82
130	Murray St.	AA	49.61
131	SW Missouri St.	AA	49.43
132	Northern Illinois	A	49.32
133	Arkansas St.	A	49.03
134	Hofstra	AA	48.76
135	Idaho St.	AA	48.56
136	Connecticut	AA	48.12
137	Massachusetts	AA	47.74
138	Jackson St.	AA	47.57
139	Indiana St.	AA	47.54
140	Akron	A	47.32
141	Northeastern	AA	47.28
142	Dartmouth	AA	46.63
143	New Mexico St.	A	46.58
144	Southern U.	AA	46.48
145	Florida A&M	AA	46.34
146	Middle Tennessee	AA	46.32
147	UAB	A	45.54
148	Maine	AA	45.33
149	Sam Houston St.	AA	45.32
150	Richmond	AA	44.69
151	Illinois St.	AA	44.49
152	Citadel	AA	44.39
153	Rhode Island	AA	44.34
154	Pennsylvania	AA	44.12
155	Western Carolina	AA	43.60
156	Western Kentucky	AA	43.59
157	Cal St. Northridge	AA	43.55
158	Portland St.	AA	43.42
159	Nicholls St.	AA	42.68
160	SW Texas St.	AA	42.63
161	Howard	AA	42.56
162	Cal Poly SLO	AA	42.52
163	Kent St.	A	42.24
164	Chattanooga	AA	42.06
165	VMI	AA	41.90
166	Buffalo	AA	41.22
167	St. Mary's-Cal.	AA	41.18
168	Liberty	AA	41.09
169	Samford	AA	40.08
170	Boston U.	AA	40.02
171	UC Davis	II	39.76
172	Southern Illinois	AA	39.42
173	Lehigh	AA	39.04
174	Jacksonville St.	AA	38.57
175	Princeton	AA	38.23
176	So. Carolina St.	AA	38.12
177	No. Carolina A&T	AA	37.39
178	Cornell	AA	37.14
179	Lafayette	AA	36.73
180	Brown	AA	36.62
181	Grambling	AA	35.95
182	Columbia	AA	35.75
183	Cal St. Sacramento	AA	35.67
184	Alcorn St.	AA	35.31
185	Hampton	AA	35.07
186	Tennessee Tech	AA	35.03
187	Bucknell	AA	34.42
188	Alabama St.	AA	33.60
189	Southern Utah	AA	33.11
190	Tennessee St.	AA	32.92
191	Delaware St.	AA	32.72
192	Yale	AA	32.57
193	Texas Southern	AA	32.32
194	SE Missouri St.	AA	32.00
195	Dayton	AA	31.41
196	Harvard	AA	31.26
197	Ark.-Pine Bluff	AA	30.66
198	Colgate	AA	29.77
199	Miss. Valley St.	AA	29.77
200	Norfolk St.	AA	29.66
201	Tenn.-Martin	AA	28.06
202	Wofford	AA	27.99
203	Fordham	AA	26.93
204	Holy Cross	AA	26.08
205	Austin Peay	AA	25.96
206	Drake	AA	23.55
207	Towson St.	AA	23.49
208	Bethune-Cookman	AA	22.17
209	Morgan St.	AA	20.36
210	Morehead St.	AA	19.20
211	Charleston Southern	AA	15.17
212	South Florida	AA	14.66
213	Robert Morris	AA	8.18
214	Prairie View A&M	AA	7.40
215	Butler	AA	6.27
216	San Diego	AA	5.50
217	Duquesne	AA	4.74
218	Valparaiso	AA	4.15
219	Evansville	AA	3.45
220	Wagner	AA	3.31
221	Georgetown	AA	2.10
222	Monmouth-NJ	AA	1.60
223	Marist	AA	-0.32
224	Central Conn. St.	AA	-0.96
225	St. John's	AA	-6.17
226	Canisius	AA	-7.78
227	St. Francis-Pa.	AA	-14.75
228	Iona	AA	-16.66
229	St. Peter's	AA	-19.09
230	Siena	AA	-22.71
231	Fairfield	AA	-28.98
232	La Salle	AA	-29.34