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Final Billingsley Rankings

*All Billingsley Reports are generated post-bowl games

1917
Season
Date RB Team
Jan. 2nd 1 Georgia Tech
Jan. 2nd 2 Ohio State
Jan. 2nd 3 Pittsburgh
Jan. 2nd 4 Denver
Jan. 2nd 5 Minnesota
Jan. 2nd 6 Texas A&M
Jan. 2nd 7 Notre Dame
Jan. 2nd 8 Illinois
Jan. 2nd 9 Wisconsin
Jan. 2nd 10 Auburn
Jan. 2nd 11 Utah State
Jan. 2nd 12 Chicago
Jan. 2nd 13 Army
Jan. 2nd 14 Northwestern
Jan. 2nd 15 Syracuse
Jan. 2nd 16 Nebraska
Jan. 2nd 17 Michigan
Jan. 2nd 18 Colorado
Jan. 2nd 19 Yale
Jan. 2nd 20 Rice
Jan. 2nd 21 Colorado College
Jan. 2nd 22 Kansas
Jan. 2nd 23 Vanderbilt
Jan. 2nd 24 Pennsylvania
Jan. 2nd 25 Georgetown
Jan. 2nd 26 Princeton
Jan. 2nd 27 Wash. & Jeff.
Jan. 2nd 28 Mare Island Marines
Jan. 2nd 29 Kansas State
Jan. 2nd 30 Washington & Lee
Jan. 2nd 31 Navy
Jan. 2nd 32 Utah
Jan. 2nd 33 Colorado Mines
Jan. 2nd 34 Washington State
Jan. 2nd 35 Iowa State
Jan. 2nd 36 Texas
Jan. 2nd 37 West Virginia
Jan. 2nd 38 Arkansas
Jan. 2nd 39 Virginia Tech
Jan. 2nd 40 North Carolina St.
Jan. 2nd 41 Brown
Jan. 2nd 42 Mississippi State
Jan. 2nd 43 Baylor
Jan. 2nd 44 Missouri
Jan. 2nd 45 Tulane
Jan. 2nd 46 Wyoming
Jan. 2nd 47 Sewanee
Jan. 2nd 48 Davidson
Jan. 2nd 49 Washington
Jan. 2nd 50 Alabama
Jan. 2nd 51 Clemson
Jan. 2nd 52 Dartmouth
Jan. 2nd 53 LSU
Jan. 2nd 54 Indiana
Jan. 2nd 55 Colorado State
Jan. 2nd 56 Purdue
Jan. 2nd 57 TCU
Jan. 2nd 58 Oregon State
Jan. 2nd 59 Oregon
Jan. 2nd 60 Kentucky
Jan. 2nd 61 Iowa
Jan. 2nd 62 Harvard
Jan. 2nd 63 Oklahoma
Jan. 2nd 64 Florida
Jan. 2nd 65 VMI
Jan. 2nd 66 Southern Cal
Jan. 2nd 67 Rutgers
Jan. 2nd 68 Penn State
Jan. 2nd 69 Maryland
Jan. 2nd 70 Boston College
Jan. 2nd 71 Washington (MO)
Jan. 2nd 72 Mississippi
Jan. 2nd 73 Oklahoma State
Jan. 2nd 74 Texas-El Paso
Jan. 2nd 75 New Mexico State
Jan. 2nd 76 Wake Forest
Jan. 2nd 77 New Mexico
Jan. 2nd 78 Arizona
Jan. 2nd 79 California
Jan. 2nd 80 Cornell
Jan. 2nd 81 Tulsa
Jan. 2nd 82 Carlisle
Jan. 2nd 83 North Texas
Jan. 2nd 84 SMU
Jan. 2nd 85 Drake
Jan. 2nd 86 Memphis
Jan. 2nd 87 South Carolina
Jan. 2nd 88 Michigan State
Jan. 2nd 89 Columbia
Jan. 2nd 0 Arizona State
Jan. 2nd 0 Stanford
Jan. 2nd 0 Duke
Jan. 2nd 0 Georgia
Jan. 2nd 0 North Carolina
Jan. 2nd 0 Virginia
Jan. 2nd 0 Tennessee

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