Modern Statistical Era. World War II season; schedules, rosters, and participation were affected by wartime conditions.

1942 Season

FBS Football Rankings

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FBS standings

114 ranked teams

Rank	Team	Champion	Record	Rating	Raw points	Opponent rating	Move
1	Georgia FBS · SEC	—	11–1	269.12	339.07	127.37	—
2	Wisconsin FBS · Western	—	8–1–1	248.21	287.52	151.56	—
3	Tennessee FBS · SEC	—	9–1–1	241.06	304.11	124.12	▲ 4
4	Ohio State FBS · Western	★	9–1	241.00	292.71	127.47	▼ 1
5	Notre Dame FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–2–2	239.52	271.61	165.22	▼ 1
6	Tulsa FBS · Missouri Valley	—	10–1	227.46	289.63	100.47	▼ 1
7	Georgia Tech FBS · SEC	—	9–2	218.92	240.61	149.34	▼ 1
8	GGreat Lakes Navy FBS · FBS Independents	—	8–3–1	216.04	253.10	141.30	—
9	Michigan FBS · Western	—	7–3	212.28	236.85	155.08	▲ 1
10	Alabama FBS · SEC	—	8–3	209.06	231.13	152.99	▲ 10
11	Texas FBS · Southwest	—	9–2	208.77	252.15	112.56	▲ 3
12	GGeorgia Pre-Flight FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–1–1	207.83	225.60	150.47	▼ 1
13	NNorth Carolina Pre-Flight FBS · FBS Independents	—	8–2–1	194.73	231.18	115.82	—
14	Boston College FBS · FBS Independents	—	8–2	194.48	214.08	127.39	▼ 5
15	Rice FBS · Southwest	—	7–2–1	189.14	219.21	126.01	▲ 1
16	Mississippi State FBS · SEC	—	8–2	188.56	227.62	110.36	▲ 2
17	SSanta Clara FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–2	188.46	206.89	125.01	▼ 2
18	Auburn FBS · SEC	—	6–4–1	187.43	216.77	143.86	▼ 1
19	MMarquette FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–2	185.53	228.19	104.19	—
20	Colorado FBS · Mountain State	—	7–2	173.15	214.37	84.62	▲ 1
21	Hardin Simmons FBS · Border	—	9–1–1	171.23	207.00	83.87	▼ 9
22	William & Mary FBS · Southern	—	9–1–1	169.80	205.59	74.77	—
23	Missouri FBS · Big 6	—	8–3–1	168.49	189.66	111.58	—
24	Stanford FBS · Pacific	—	6–4	166.94	188.06	128.00	—
25	IIowa Pre-Flight FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–3	165.17	172.49	134.82	—
26	Utah FBS · Mountain State	—	6–3	164.18	204.70	93.15	—
27	UCLA FBS · Pacific	—	7–4	158.45	169.44	125.62	—
28	LSU FBS · SEC	—	7–3	158.44	146.23	154.24	▲ 1
29	Oklahoma State FBS · Missouri Valley	—	6–3–1	158.38	197.91	93.53	▼ 1
30	Cincinnati FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–2	157.87	80.53	255.09	▲ 1
31	Minnesota FBS · Western	—	5–4	156.86	176.94	132.72	▼ 1
32	Wake Forest FBS · Southern	—	6–2–1	149.43	178.32	91.30	—
33	Holy Cross FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–4–1	147.48	197.69	87.05	—
34	Navy FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–4	143.99	154.99	121.86	—
35	Baylor FBS · Southwest	—	6–4–1	142.08	133.94	139.51	—
36	Duke FBS · Southern	—	5–4–1	141.02	154.95	120.25	—
37	USC FBS · Pacific	—	5–5–1	139.69	152.89	127.64	—
38	Pennsylvania FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–3–1	138.47	158.09	102.50	—
39	TCU FBS · Southwest	—	7–3	137.03	136.51	118.96	—
40	JJacksonville Naval Air Station FBS · FBS Independents	—	9–3	135.39	144.35	99.02	—
41	Miami FBS · FBS Independents	—	7–2	133.82	160.13	78.85	—
42	Indiana FBS · Western	—	7–3	133.20	144.41	102.13	—
43	Tulane FBS · SEC	—	4–5	133.06	109.39	171.39	—
44	SSaint Mary's (CA) FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–3–1	131.62	151.45	95.96	—
45	Texas A&M FBS · Southwest	—	4–5–1	131.47	146.04	128.80	▲ 1
46	Michigan State FBS · FBS Independents	—	4–3–2	131.30	137.67	121.63	▼ 1
47	Penn State FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–1–1	126.15	137.29	86.71	—
48	Iowa FBS · Western	—	6–4	126.09	123.53	127.80	—
49	North Carolina FBS · Southern	—	5–2–2	125.47	138.58	98.80	—
50	SSaint Mary's (CA) Pre-Flight FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–3–1	120.57	131.33	96.95	—
51	Illinois FBS · Western	—	6–4	120.11	105.98	139.51	—
52	Army FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–3	118.86	124.62	95.29	—
53	Texas Tech FBS · Border	—	4–5–1	115.82	119.70	120.84	—
54	California FBS · Pacific	—	5–5	113.02	114.78	113.97	—
55	West Virginia FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–4	110.36	114.56	104.69	—
56	Colorado State FBS · Mountain State	—	4–3	110.14	123.15	87.55	—
57	Colgate FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–2–1	109.43	116.10	80.19	—
58	Oregon State FBS · Pacific	—	4–5–1	105.72	120.03	102.17	—
59	Washington State FBS · Pacific	—	6–2–2	103.26	95.27	96.36	▲ 1
60	Duquesne FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–3–1	101.28	97.01	88.46	▼ 1
61	SSan Francisco FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–4	100.70	104.89	85.27	—
62	Virginia Tech FBS · Southern	—	7–2–1	97.56	106.41	63.30	—
63	Villanova FBS · FBS Independents	—	4–4	96.40	115.10	84.93	—
64	DDenver FBS · Mountain State	—	6–3–1	95.67	102.09	72.57	—
65	CCreighton FBS · Missouri Valley	—	5–4	90.04	95.18	83.93	—
66	Harvard FBS · FBS Independents	—	2–6–1	87.55	81.66	124.30	—
67	Kentucky FBS · SEC	—	3–6–1	83.16	63.80	129.88	▲ 3
68	DDetroit Mercy FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–4	82.97	71.56	99.22	▼ 1
69	Arizona FBS · Border	—	6–4	82.68	51.91	105.36	▼ 1
70	Pittsburgh FBS · FBS Independents	—	3–6	82.06	64.96	127.70	▼ 1
71	Bucknell FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–1–1	80.51	79.78	99.68	▲ 1
72	SSaint Louis FBS · Missouri Valley	—	4–5	80.39	68.73	101.00	▼ 1
73	NC State FBS · Southern	—	4–4–2	79.70	53.64	113.97	—
74	Washington FBS · Pacific	—	4–3–3	79.19	67.20	98.78	—
75	Utah State FBS · Mountain State	—	6–3–1	78.06	71.77	71.53	—
76	Vanderbilt FBS · SEC	—	6–4	76.79	57.55	103.78	▲ 1
77	Arkansas FBS · Southwest	—	3–7	75.72	61.61	126.08	▼ 1
78	Syracuse FBS · FBS Independents	—	6–3	74.95	59.06	81.21	—
79	SMU FBS · Southwest	—	3–6–2	73.53	60.98	122.07	—
80	Temple FBS · FBS Independents	—	2–5–3	73.22	62.59	112.40	—
81	West Texas FBS · Border	—	7–2	71.99	61.49	53.65	—
82	Maryland FBS · Southern	—	7–2	68.40	74.48	36.77	—
83	Northwestern FBS · Western	—	1–9	67.17	21.05	186.32	—
84	South Carolina FBS · Southern	—	1–7–1	65.46	49.90	126.92	▲ 2
85	LLoyola Marymount FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–4–1	63.89	62.84	70.11	—
86	Clemson FBS · Southern	—	3–6–1	63.75	60.06	97.76	▼ 2
87	Kansas State FBS · Big 6	—	3–8	62.73	80.55	80.63	—
88	Brown FBS · FBS Independents	—	4–4	60.98	55.57	72.52	—
89	Dartmouth FBS · FBS Independents	—	5–4	58.46	35.30	84.79	—
90	Nevada FBS · FBS Independents	—	0–2–1	56.22	47.54	88.90	—
91	Oklahoma FBS · Big 6	—	3–5–2	56.15	19.93	117.68	—
92	Purdue FBS · Western	—	1–8	55.22	21.73	156.61	—
93	UTEP FBS · Border	—	5–4	50.70	43.87	57.53	—
94	MManhattan FBS · FBS Independents	—	2–6	49.05	17.78	115.56	▲ 1
95	Arizona State FBS · Border	—	2–8	47.41	73.00	58.66	▼ 1
96	GGeorge Washington FBS · Southern	—	3–6	47.32	39.48	83.28	—
97	Princeton FBS · FBS Independents	—	3–5–1	47.30	28.42	91.44	—
98	Florida FBS · SEC	—	3–7	46.56	1.00	136.02	—
99	Wyoming FBS · Mountain State	—	3–5	46.44	28.67	88.53	—
100	Ole Miss FBS · SEC	—	2–7	43.61	8.70	124.86	▲ 1
101	The Citadel FBS · Southern	—	5–2	42.58	42.01	35.08	▼ 1
102	Nebraska FBS · Big 6	—	3–7	40.15	21.10	101.86	—
103	Kansas FBS · Big 6	—	2–8	37.91	29.28	97.71	—
104	Washington St. Louis FBS · Missouri Valley	—	5–5	36.33	7.41	77.63	—
105	New Mexico FBS · Border	—	4–5–2	34.38	20.69	62.61	—
106	BYU FBS · Mountain State	—	2–5	31.68	9.86	85.46	—
107	Oregon FBS · Pacific	—	2–6	30.00	1.00	106.50	—
108	Iowa State FBS · Big 6	—	3–6	29.89	7.44	84.93	—
109	Davidson FBS · Southern	—	2–6–1	25.88	1.00	93.68	—
110	Virginia FBS · FBS Independents	—	2–6–1	23.69	17.58	63.81	—
111	Columbia FBS · FBS Independents	—	3–6	22.39	1.06	75.30	—
112	Drake FBS · Missouri Valley	—	3–7	21.34	1.00	72.26	—
113	Washington and Lee FBS · Southern	—	1–8	4.59	1.00	63.43	—
114	New Mexico State FBS · Border	—	1–8	-2.21	1.00	40.98	—