1943 College Football Final Rankings

In 1943, only 76 teams competed at the top division of college football - including the military training schools. Many schools did not field a team or played a very reduced schedule because of World War II. Of the teams that did compete, Notre Dame was far and away the most successful, playing a very difficult schedule and only losing one game - their final game of the season.

1. Notre Dame Fighting Irish (9-1) - 1.0
2. Duke Blue Devils (8-1) - 2.5
3. Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks (9-1) - 3.5
4. Navy Midshipmen (8-1) - 4.3
5. Michigan Wolverines (8-1) - 4.9
6. Purdue Boilermakers (9-0) - 5.3
7. Del Monte Pre-Flight Navyators (7-1) - 7.2
8. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (8-3) - 7.5
9. Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets (10-2) - 9.3
10. Colorado College Tigers (7-0) - 10.5
11. Dartmouth Big Green (6-1) - 10.6
12. Army Black Knights (7-2-1) - 11.7
13. Northwestern Wildcats (6-2) - 13.2
14. North Carolina Tar Heels (6-3) - 14.5
15. Pacific Tigers (7-2) - 15.9
16. March Field Flyers (9-1) - 16.1
17. Pennsylvania Relays (6-2-1) - 16.3
18. Richmond Spiders (6-1) - 18.8
19. Tulsa Golden Hurricane (6-1-1) - 19.4
20. Holy Cross Crusaders (6-2) - 19.5
21. Texas Longhorns (7-1-1) - 19.6
22. Colorado Buffaloes (5-2) - 22.3
23. Oklahoma Sooners (7-2) - 23.8
24. Fort Riley Centaurs (6-2-1) - 24.2
25. USC Trojans (8-2) - 24.8
26. Texas A&M Aggies (7-2-1) - 26.2
27. Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers (5-1) - 27.4
28. St. Mary's Pre-Flight Air Devils (3-4-1) - 28.6
29. Alameda Coast Guard Sea Lions (4-2-1) - 28.7
30. Cornell Big Red (6-4) - 28.8
31. Penn State Nittany Lions (5-3-1) - 30.0
32. Villanova Wildcats (5-3) - 32.1
33. Colgate Raiders (5-3-1) - 33.2
34. Minnesota Golden Gophers (5-4) - 34.8
35. LSU Tigers (6-3) - 35.2
36. Ohio State Buckeyes (3-6) - 36.5
37. Tulane Green Wave (3-3) - 37.5
38. Georgia Bulldogs (6-4) - 37.7
39. Indiana Hoosiers (4-4-2) - 37.8
40. Marquette Golden Eagles (3-4-1) - 40.8
41. Camp Grant Warriors (2-6-2) - 41.3
42. South Carolina Gamecocks (5-2) - 42.5
43. Virginia Cavaliers (3-4-1) - 42.9
44. Missouri Tigers (3-5) - 43.3
45. Brown Bears (5-3) - 43.7
46. West Virginia Mountaineers (4-3) - 46.3
47. North Carolina Pre-Flight Cloudbusters (2-4-1) - 47.3
48. California Golden Bears (4-6) - 48.0
49. Iowa State Cyclones (4-4) - 49.0
50. Wake Forest Demon Deacons (4-5) - 49.9
51. Pittsburgh Panthers (3-5) - 50.3
52. Illinois Fighting Illini (3-7) - 52.7
53. Kansas Jayhawks (4-5-1) - 53.0
54. Temple Owls (2-6) - 55.2
55. Yale Bulldogs (4-5) - 55.6
56. NC State Wolfpack (3-6) - 56.5
57. Texas Tech Red Raiders (4-6) - 58.3
58. Maryland Terrapins (4-5) - 60.0
59. Iowa Hawkeyes (1-6-1) - 60.3
60. St. Mary's Gaels (2-5) - 60.7
61. SMU Mustangs (2-7) - 61.5
62. Clemson Tigers (2-6) - 63.5
63. Denver Pioneers (2-5) - 64.1
64. Rice Owls (3-7) - 64.6
65. TCU Horned Frogs (2-6) - 66.0
66. Oklahoma State Cowboys (3-4) - 67.2
67. UCLA Bruins (1-8) - 68.2
68. Arkansas Razorbacks (2-7) - 68.4
69. VMI Keydets (2-6) - 69.4
70. Princeton Tigers (1-6) - 70.7
71. Nebraska Cornhuskers (2-6) - 72.3
72. Wisconsin Badgers (1-9) - 72.8
73. Kansas State Wildcats (1-7) - 73.6
74. Utah Utes (0-7) - 75.3
75. San Francisco Dons (1-7) - 76.0
76. Columbia Lions (0-8) - 76.7
 
Special thanks to James Howell's College Football Scores, which provided the data for our analysis.