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1929 Season

FBS Football Rankings

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122 ranked teams

Rank	Team	Champion	Record	Rating	Raw points	Opponent rating	Move
1	USC FBS · Pacific	★	10–2	280.83	350.76	142.84	▲ 2
2	Notre Dame FBS · FBS Independents	★	9–0	259.23	310.20	131.23	—
3	North Carolina FBS · Southern	—	9–1	243.40	325.67	82.56	▲ 1
4	Pittsburgh FBS · FBS Independents	★	9–1	240.35	294.32	129.10	▼ 3
5	Utah FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	7–0	231.14	306.94	92.25	—
6	Tennessee FBS · Southern	—	9–0–1	221.76	286.92	95.83	—
7	Purdue FBS · Western	—	8–0	217.82	282.19	95.81	—
8	TCU FBS · Southwest	—	9–0–1	209.98	256.08	112.88	—
9	California FBS · Pacific	—	7–1–1	199.75	228.17	131.10	—
10	SMU FBS · Southwest	—	6–0–4	189.78	233.78	112.79	—
11	Stanford FBS · Pacific	—	9–2	188.65	224.34	115.19	—
12	Tulane FBS · Southern	—	9–0	185.73	235.62	75.83	—
13	Kentucky FBS · Southern	—	6–1–1	184.44	225.41	116.32	—
14	Texas FBS · Southwest	—	5–2–2	184.25	211.07	128.86	—
15	Fordham FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–0–2	183.87	234.30	99.66	—
16	Illinois FBS · Western	—	6–1–1	180.58	221.78	104.85	—
17	VMI FBS · Southern	—	8–2	170.17	206.27	89.37	—
18	Arkansas FBS · Southwest	—	7–2	162.82	196.55	100.76	—
19	Colgate FBS · FBS Independents	—	8–1	162.75	210.83	69.71	—
20	Vanderbilt FBS · Southern	—	7–2	162.12	198.42	96.19	—
21	Navy FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–2–2	159.23	186.67	102.91	—
22	DDetroit Mercy FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–1–1	158.83	196.99	83.30	—
23	Dartmouth FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–2	156.72	191.26	89.00	▲ 1
24	Nebraska FBS · Big 6	—	4–1–3	156.02	167.59	119.64	▼ 1
25	Georgia FBS · Southern	—	6–4	151.92	159.16	129.67	—
26	Washington State FBS · Pacific	—	10–2	151.89	173.68	85.34	▲ 4
27	DDenver FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	5–1–1	150.63	186.14	81.02	▼ 1
28	Minnesota FBS · Western	—	6–2	150.35	173.43	104.75	▼ 1
29	Bucknell FBS · FBS Independents	—	2–2	150.32	157.35	132.50	▼ 1
30	Texas A&M FBS · Southwest	—	5–4	150.20	163.53	124.75	▼ 1
31	Florida FBS · Southern	—	8–2	148.62	166.43	97.88	—
32	Alabama FBS · Southern	—	6–3	147.86	165.39	111.92	—
33	Missouri FBS · Big 6	—	5–2–1	145.74	175.40	91.28	—
34	Iowa FBS · Western	—	4–2–2	144.53	156.14	125.00	—
35	Carnegie Mellon FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–3–1	139.83	140.13	135.46	—
36	Oregon State FBS · Pacific	—	5–4	136.50	140.65	127.14	▲ 3
37	Colorado FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	5–1–1	136.13	137.82	102.94	▼ 1
38	Yale FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–2–1	135.64	155.08	96.71	▼ 1
39	Pennsylvania FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–2	135.45	152.33	89.40	▼ 1
40	Harvard FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–2–1	132.82	146.69	103.90	—
41	Michigan FBS · Western	—	5–3–1	131.07	129.81	122.96	—
42	NNew York University FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–3	126.69	128.48	106.67	—
43	Temple FBS · FBS Independents	—	1–0–1	125.11	132.61	110.89	—
44	Northwestern FBS · Western	—	6–3	117.51	115.90	109.93	▲ 1
45	Washington & Jefferson FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–2–2	116.18	118.98	106.02	▼ 1
46	Penn State FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–3	115.12	117.34	101.63	—
47	CColorado College FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	4–3	115.08	110.28	112.46	—
48	Villanova FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–1–1	114.83	140.27	70.27	—
49	West Virginia FBS · FBS Independents	—	4–3–3	111.64	105.82	117.35	—
50	Duquesne FBS · Tri-State	—	0–0–1	108.92	120.00	111.64	—
51	Wisconsin FBS · Western	—	4–5	108.54	95.20	132.96	—
52	Baylor FBS · Southwest	—	7–3–1	107.49	96.18	111.04	—
53	Clemson FBS · Southern	—	8–3	106.58	106.93	82.15	—
54	Drake FBS · Missouri Valley	—	5–3–1	105.60	113.51	86.45	▲ 1
55	Colorado State FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	5–4	104.79	104.76	97.26	▲ 1
56	Oregon FBS · Pacific	—	7–3	104.69	103.48	94.24	▲ 1
57	Rutgers FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–1	103.72	101.73	126.69	▲ 1
58	Ohio State FBS · Western	—	4–3–1	103.60	92.38	119.93	▼ 4
59	Cornell FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–2	103.47	121.80	66.95	—
60	Georgetown FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–2–2	102.89	106.58	89.24	—
61	Georgia Tech FBS · Southern	—	3–6	100.00	73.17	150.64	—
62	Kansas FBS · Big 6	—	4–4	96.77	102.29	95.28	—
63	Chattanooga FBS · SIAA	—	0–2	95.49	32.88	184.81	—
64	MMarquette FBS · FBS Independents	—	4–3–1	93.37	116.94	68.15	—
65	Oklahoma FBS · Big 6	—	3–3–2	90.52	89.44	97.74	—
66	BYU FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	5–3	90.50	93.26	83.34	—
67	Utah State FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	3–4	90.26	76.58	112.84	—
68	Army FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–4–1	88.80	73.93	100.33	—
69	Maryland FBS · Southern	—	4–4–2	88.60	86.75	96.92	—
70	Holy Cross FBS · FBS Independents	—	1–3	88.26	72.06	118.47	—
71	Michigan State FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–3	87.74	93.09	73.30	—
72	UCLA FBS · Pacific	—	4–4	85.06	75.00	106.57	▲ 3
73	Kansas State FBS · Big 6	—	3–5	84.68	65.00	122.24	▼ 1
74	Davidson FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–5	83.78	83.03	88.89	▼ 1
75	Syracuse FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–3	81.72	81.52	76.32	▲ 1
76	Duke FBS · Southern	—	4–6	81.64	69.16	110.58	▼ 2
77	Indiana FBS · Western	—	2–6–1	80.74	61.29	133.16	—
78	Chicago FBS · Western	—	7–3	78.97	67.85	77.67	—
79	North Texas FBS · Texas Intercollegiate Athletic	—	0–3	78.25	26.63	169.08	—
80	Wake Forest FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–5–1	77.28	85.13	69.64	—
81	South Carolina FBS · Southern	—	6–5	77.14	59.73	96.38	—
82	Boston College FBS · FBS Independents	—	1–2–1	73.63	41.68	118.42	—
83	Texas Tech FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–2	72.70	24.66	158.73	—
84	Virginia Tech FBS · Southern	—	5–4	72.61	53.62	97.26	—
85	Lafayette FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–2	72.02	58.62	115.65	—
86	Montana State FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	6–2	71.53	79.41	46.73	—
87	Arizona FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–0	71.00	120.00	—	—
88	Arizona State FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–0	71.00	120.00	—	—
89	New Mexico FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–0	71.00	120.00	—	—
90	New Mexico State FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–0	71.00	120.00	—	—
91	Texas State FBS · Texas Intercollegiate Athletic	—	0–0	71.00	120.00	—	—
92	UTEP FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–0	71.00	120.00	—	—
93	Virginia FBS · Southern	—	4–3–2	70.28	60.73	83.51	—
94	William & Mary FBS · Virginia Conference	—	0–2	68.50	51.47	115.92	—
95	Furman FBS · SIAA	—	1–3	68.06	59.16	103.23	—
96	Oklahoma State FBS · Missouri Valley	—	4–3–2	66.96	70.86	66.82	—
97	LSU FBS · Southern	—	6–3	66.16	58.69	66.56	—
98	Brown FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–5	63.82	53.25	83.61	—
99	Idaho FBS · Pacific	—	4–5	62.35	45.00	97.26	—
100	Grinnell FBS · Missouri Valley	—	5–1–2	52.27	45.89	41.56	—
101	RRegis (CO) FBS · FBS Independents	—	2–7	51.61	63.91	72.89	—
102	Richmond FBS · Virginia Conference	—	0–2	48.12	1.54	123.72	—
103	The Citadel FBS · SIAA	—	0–4	46.99	27.30	109.42	—
104	Princeton FBS · FBS Independents	—	2–4–1	44.57	30.62	82.65	—
105	Washington FBS · Pacific	—	2–6–1	43.95	11.84	116.61	▲ 2
106	Colorado School of Mines FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	2–5	43.02	28.28	87.69	▼ 1
107	Washington St. Louis FBS · Missouri Valley	—	3–4–1	42.41	28.82	72.16	▼ 1
108	Auburn FBS · Southern	—	2–7	39.79	3.83	119.52	—
109	Columbia FBS · FBS Independents	—	4–5	39.58	16.12	72.84	—
110	Ole Miss FBS · Southern	—	1–6–2	38.77	1.00	120.63	—
111	Washington and Lee FBS · Southern	—	3–5–1	37.96	9.10	93.46	—
112	Rice FBS · Southwest	—	2–7	36.69	9.88	109.91	—
113	Western Colorado FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	2–5	31.27	28.29	62.51	—
114	Iowa State FBS · Big 6	—	1–7	27.52	4.50	103.12	—
115	Sewanee FBS · Southern	—	2–5–2	26.44	6.02	72.97	—
116	Wyoming FBS · Rocky Mountain	—	1–7	26.24	4.37	95.36	—
117	Mercer FBS · SIAA	—	0–2	24.80	3.65	79.46	—
118	NC State FBS · Southern	—	1–8	22.35	1.00	101.15	—
119	Montana FBS · Pacific	—	3–5–1	21.79	1.00	70.06	—
120	CCreighton FBS · Missouri Valley	—	2–6	20.00	1.00	67.00	—
121	Mississippi State FBS · Southern	—	1–5–2	17.09	6.28	71.58	—
122	Sam Houston FBS · Texas Intercollegiate Athletic	—	0–1	1.63	1.00	36.69	—