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Final Billingsley Rankings

*All Billingsley Reports are generated post-bowl games

1973
Season
Date RB Team
Jan. 2nd 1 Notre Dame
Jan. 2nd 2 Oklahoma
Jan. 2nd 3 Penn State
Jan. 2nd 4 Alabama
Jan. 2nd 5 Ohio State
Jan. 2nd 6 Michigan
Jan. 2nd 7 Southern Cal
Jan. 2nd 8 Nebraska
Jan. 2nd 9 Houston
Jan. 2nd 10 Texas Tech
Jan. 2nd 11 LSU
Jan. 2nd 12 UCLA
Jan. 2nd 13 Arizona State
Jan. 2nd 14 Miami (Ohio)
Jan. 2nd 15 Texas
Jan. 2nd 16 San Diego State
Jan. 2nd 17 Missouri
Jan. 2nd 18 North Carolina St.
Jan. 2nd 19 Kansas
Jan. 2nd 20 Tennessee
Jan. 2nd 21 Tulane
Jan. 2nd 22 Georgia
Jan. 2nd 23 Oklahoma State
Jan. 2nd 24 Air Force
Jan. 2nd 25 Arizona
Jan. 2nd 26 Kent State
Jan. 2nd 27 Kansas State
Jan. 2nd 28 Stanford
Jan. 2nd 29 Colorado
Jan. 2nd 30 Auburn
Jan. 2nd 31 Maryland
Jan. 2nd 32 Florida
Jan. 2nd 33 Mississippi
Jan. 2nd 34 Yale
Jan. 2nd 35 Pittsburgh
Jan. 2nd 36 Harvard
Jan. 2nd 37 Iowa State
Jan. 2nd 38 SMU
Jan. 2nd 39 Rice
Jan. 2nd 40 Miami (Fla.)
Jan. 2nd 41 Arkansas
Jan. 2nd 42 Washington State
Jan. 2nd 43 South Carolina
Jan. 2nd 44 Dartmouth
Jan. 2nd 45 Minnesota
Jan. 2nd 46 Texas A&M
Jan. 2nd 47 Georgia Tech
Jan. 2nd 48 Pennsylvania
Jan. 2nd 49 Pacific
Jan. 2nd 50 Kentucky
Jan. 2nd 51 Mississippi State
Jan. 2nd 52 West Virginia
Jan. 2nd 53 Memphis
Jan. 2nd 54 Michigan State
Jan. 2nd 55 Brown
Jan. 2nd 56 Bowling Green
Jan. 2nd 57 Utah State
Jan. 2nd 58 Navy
Jan. 2nd 59 California
Jan. 2nd 60 Brigham Young
Jan. 2nd 61 Purdue
Jan. 2nd 62 TCU
Jan. 2nd 63 Baylor
Jan. 2nd 64 Illinois
Jan. 2nd 65 Utah
Jan. 2nd 66 Vanderbilt
Jan. 2nd 67 Cornell
Jan. 2nd 68 Oregon State
Jan. 2nd 69 Oregon
Jan. 2nd 70 San Jose State
Jan. 2nd 71 Boston College
Jan. 2nd 72 Clemson
Jan. 2nd 73 Wisconsin
Jan. 2nd 74 New Mexico
Jan. 2nd 75 Washington
Jan. 2nd 76 Northwestern
Jan. 2nd 77 Ohio
Jan. 2nd 78 Duke
Jan. 2nd 79 Wyoming
Jan. 2nd 80 North Carolina
Jan. 2nd 81 Indiana
Jan. 2nd 82 Army
Jan. 2nd 83 Florida State
Jan. 2nd 84 Colorado State
Jan. 2nd 85 Syracuse
Jan. 2nd 86 Virginia
Jan. 2nd 87 Iowa
Jan. 2nd 88 Western Michigan
Jan. 2nd 89 Tulsa
Jan. 2nd 90 Virginia Tech
Jan. 2nd 91 Princeton
Jan. 2nd 92 Columbia
Jan. 2nd 93 Wake Forest
Jan. 2nd 94 New Mexico State
Jan. 2nd 95 North Texas
Jan. 2nd 96 Southern Miss
Jan. 2nd 97 Louisville
Jan. 2nd 98 Northern Illinois
Jan. 2nd 99 Cincinnati
Jan. 2nd 100 Texas-El Paso
Jan. 2nd 101 Rutgers
Jan. 2nd 102 Toledo
Jan. 2nd 103 Fresno State
Jan. 2nd 104 Long Beach State

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