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{{Infobox college football season
| year = 1926
| image = 1926 Big Game.JPG
| image_caption = The "[[Big Game (American football)|Big Game]]" 
|image_size =300px
| number_of_teams = 
| preseason_ap = <!-- Not done prior to 1936 -->
| regular_season = <!-- Please list date of first regular season game to date of last regular season game -->
| number_of_bowls = 1 
| bowl_start = January 1, 1927
| bowl_end = <!-- No end date, only one date of bowl -->
| champion = [[1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]<br>[[1926 Stanford football team|Stanford]]<br>[[1926 Lafayette Leopards football team|Lafayette]] 
| heisman = Not awarded until [[1935 college football season|1935]]
}} 
The '''1926 college football season''' was the first in which an attempt was made to recognize a national champion after the season.

[[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]], coached by [[Pop Warner]], was the top team in the U.S. under the [[Dickinson System]] and was awarded the newly established [[Rissman Trophy]]. Unbeaten [[1926 Stanford football team|Stanford]] (10–0) faced unbeaten [[1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]] (9–0) in the [[1927 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]], and the two teams played to a 7–7 tie.  Seven years later, [[Parke H. Davis]], a renowned football historian and football rules committee member, declared [[1926 Lafayette Leopards football team|Lafayette]] (9–0), where he had previously coached, a "National Champion Foot Ball Team" in ''Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide''.<ref name="Spalding1934">{{cite book |title=Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1934 |editor-first=Walter R. |editor-last=Okeson |editor-link=Walter R. Okeson |publisher=American Sports Publishing Co. |location=New York |year=1934 |pages=206–208 |url=https://archive.org/details/spalding-guide-1934-national-champions/}}</ref>

==Conference and program changes==
===Conference changes===
*Five new conferences began play in 1926
**''[[Buckeye Athletic Association]]'' – a conference active through the 1938 season
**'''[[Pacific Northwest Conference]]''' – an active NCAA Division III conference now known as the '''[[Northwest Conference]]'''
**''[[Midwest Athletic Association]]'' – a conference of [[HBCU]]s active through the 1966 season that was also later known as the ''Midwest Conference'' and the ''Midwestern Conference''
**''[[Texas Collegiate Athletic Conference]]'' – a conference active through the 1955 season
**''[[Michigan Collegiate Conference]]'' – a conference active through the 1932 season; most members now part of the '''[[Mid-American Conference]]'''

===Membership changes===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! School !! 1925 Conference !! 1926 Conference
|- style="text-align:center;"
| [[University of Miami|Miami]] [[Miami Hurricanes football|Hurricanes]] || ''Program Established'' ||  Independent
|}

===Program changes===
* [[Kent State University|Kent State Normal College]] officially changed their nickname from the ''Silver Foxes'' to their present moniker, the '''[[Kent State Golden Flashes football|Golden Flashes]]'''.

==September==
'''September 18''' A few schools opened their seasons early, as [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] beat Fresno State 44–0.  On '''September 25''' [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] beat visiting [[Caltech]], 13–0 and [[USC Trojans football|USC]] defeated Whittier 74–0;
[[Brown University|Brown]] beat the University of Rhode Island, 14–0 and [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] (which had all 9 of its games scheduled at home in Philadelphia) shut out Franklin & Marshall, 41–0.  [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] beat Muhlenberg College 35–0
In the South, defending Rose Bowl champion [[Alabama football|Alabama]] beat Millsaps College (Jackson, Miss) 54–0.  [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] defeated Carson-Newman, 13–0.

==October==
'''October 2'''  [[Navy football|Navy]] opened its season with a 17–13 win over Purdue, while [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] started with a 21–0 win over Mercy College of Detroit.  [[Brown University|Brown]] beat Colby College (of Maine), 35–0 and [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] beat Johns Hopkins, 40–7.  [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] won again, beating Schuylkill (which later was merged with Albright College) 47–0;

[[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] defeated Occidental 19–0 and [[USC Trojans football|USC]] defeated Santa Clara 42–0.

[[Alabama football|Alabama]] played Vanderbilt at Nashville and won 19–7; [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] beat North Carolina, 34–0.

[[Ohio State football|Ohio State]] opened its season with a 40–0 win over Wittenberg University, while [[Michigan football|Michigan]] started with a 42–3 win over visiting Oklahoma State.  [[Northwestern Wildcats football|Northwestern]] opened its season with a 34–0 win over visiting South Dakota.  [[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] tuned up with a game against Wisconsin's Beloit College, winning  77–0.  In the Missouri Valley, [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] beat Texas, 13–3.

'''October 9''' At Annapolis, [[Navy football|Navy]]'s football team played a doubleheader, albeit with two different squads.  The varsity beat a weak [[Drake Bulldogs|Drake University]] team, 24–7, and the reserves beat Richmond, 26–0.<ref>"Navy Beats Drake, Richmond Elevens", ''Oakland Tribune'', October 10, 1926, pD-3</ref>  [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] defeated West Virginia's Davis & Elkins College, 21–7.  [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] beat Pittsburgh, 17–7 and [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] beat Swarthmore, 44–0.

[[Ohio State football|Ohio State]] played Ohio Wesleyan and won 47–0 and [[Northwestern Wildcats football|Northwestern]] beat Minnesota's [[Carleton Knights football|Carleton College]], 31–3.  [[Michigan football|Michigan]] crushed Michigan State, 55–3, in a conference game.
[[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] won at Minnesota, 19–7

[[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] had a 7–3 victory over an amateur team, the Olympic Club (from San Francisco).  [[USC Trojans football|USC]] defeated a strong Washington State team, 16–7

[[Alabama football|Alabama]] beat Mississippi State 26–7 at a game in Meridian, Mississippi, while [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] won at LSU, 14–7.  [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] won at Creighton 12–0.

'''October 16''' In New York, Columbia University hosted [[Ohio State football|Ohio State]] in an intersectional game, and lost, 32–7.
[[Brown University|Brown]] defeated Bates College 27–14 in Providence, while in Philadelphia, [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] hosted Chicago and won 27–0.  [[Navy football|Navy]] won at Princeton 27–13, while [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] played a strong Syracuse team and won 27–21.   [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] beat Dickinson 30–7.
 
[[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] defeated Nevada 33–0, and [[USC Trojans football|USC]] beat Occidental, 28–6

At Atlanta, [[Alabama football|Alabama]] beat Georgia Tech 21–0.  [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] had beaten Maryville the day before, 6–0.  [[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] beat visiting Penn State, 28–0. In Western Conference play, [[Michigan football|Michigan]] beat Minnesota, 20–0, [[Northwestern Wildcats football|Northwestern]] defeated Indiana 20–0, and [[Illinois football|Illinois]] beat Iowa 13–6.  [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] defeated Kansas, 27–0.

'''October 23''' [[Brown University|Brown]] played its first Ivy opponent, winning 7–0 at Yale.  [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] beat Williams College, 36–0.  [[Navy football|Navy]] beat Colgate, 13–7, and [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] beat Boston University 41–0.  [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] defeated Albany, 30–7.

[[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] won at [[Northwestern Wildcats football|Northwestern]], handing the Wildcats their first defeat, 6–0, with Rockne's reserves scoring on a touchdown pass.  [[Alabama football|Alabama]] had a 2–0 win over Sewanee; [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] beat Centre College, 30–7.  In Pacific Coast Conference games, [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] won 29–12 at Oregon, and [[USC Trojans football|USC]] beat California at Berkeley, 27–0.  In Western Conference play,  [[Ohio State football|Ohio State]] beat Iowa 23–6 and [[Michigan football|Michigan]] beat [[Illinois football|Illinois]] 13–0.[[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] went to 5–0–0, winning at Oklahoma, 15–12.

'''October 30''' [[Navy football|Navy]] (5–0–0) and [[Michigan football|Michigan]] (4–0–0) played in Baltimore in an intersectional match of unbeatens.  Though the Wolverines were heavily favored, Navy blocked a field goal and held Michigan 2 yards from goal in the first half; Hamilton of Navy kicked a field goal, made a key interception to set up a touchdown, and added the point after for a 10–0 win.<ref>"Navy Boots Dope Bucket and Trims Famous Michigan Team", ''Zanesville Signal'', Oct. 31, 1926, p8</ref>

In Los Angeles, another big game between unbeatens matched [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] and Southern California (USC), both 5–0–0, faced off.  USC scored first, but Dick Hyland blocked the extra point; after a second Trojan touchdown, the kick failed, and USC had a 12–0 lead.  Stanford scored, but the extra point kick hit the upright, and it was 12–6 at halftime. Biff Hoffman's pass to Dick Hyland tied the game for Stanford, and George Bogue's point after kick proved to be the winning margin in Stanford's 13–12 win.<ref>"Stanford Defeats Trojans, 13–12, In Sensational Game", ''Oakland Tribune'', Oct. 31, 1926, pA-1</ref>  [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] and Washington & Jefferson were both 5–0–0 when they met in Philadelphia; the Presidents lost to Lafayette, 16–10

At Champaign, [[Illinois football|Illinois]] (4–1–0) hosted unbeaten (5–0–0) [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], and won 3–0, while at Atlanta, [[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] beat Georgia Tech 12–0.  [[Alabama football|Alabama]] defeated LSU, 24–0 and [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] won at Mississippi State, 33–0.  [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] won at Yale, 33–0 and [[Brown University|Brown]] won at Dartmouth, 10–0.  [[Ohio State football|Ohio State]] won at the University of Chicago, 18–0., and [[Northwestern Wildcats football|Northwestern]] won its rematch with the Hoosiers at Indiana, 21–0.
[[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] went to 5–0–0 in beating Arkansas, 16–7.

==November==
[[File:1926 Army-Navy Game (Chicago Tribune photo1) (a).jpg|thumb|1926 [[Army–Navy Game]] at [[Soldier Field]] in [[Chicago]]|right|500px]]

'''November 6'''  
[[Navy football|Navy]] played an easy opponent in West Virginia Wesleyan College, winning 53–7.  [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] won its sixth straight, a 55–0 whitewash of Franklin & Marshall.  [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] won again, beating Rutgers 37–0; [[Brown University|Brown]] beat Norwich College, 27–0 and [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] beat Penn State, 3–0.

[[Alabama football|Alabama]] beat Kentucky 14–0 and [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] beat Sewanee 12–0.  [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] beat Santa Clara 33–14, while [[USC Trojans football|USC]] was idle.  [[Michigan football|Michigan]] beat Wisconsin, 37–0, [[Northwestern Wildcats football|Northwestern]] beat Purdue 22–0, and [[Illinois football|Illinois]] won at Chicago 7–0.  [[Ohio State football|Ohio State]] defeated Wilmington, 13–7.  [[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] won at Indiana, 26–0.  In Milwaukee, [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] suffered its first defeat, losing to Marquette, 14–0.

On Armistice Day (November 11, [[USC Trojans football|USC]] (5–1–0) and Oregon State (4–0–0) played at Portland, Oregon.  USC won 17–7.

'''November 13''' In Yankee Stadium, [[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] and [[Army Black Knights football|Army]], both 6–0–0, faced off in another battle of powerhouses.  The Fighting Irish handed the Cadets their first defeat, 7–0.  In Columbus, [[Ohio State football|Ohio State]] (6–0–0) hosted conference rival [[Michigan football|Michigan]] (5–1–0).  The visitors won by a point, 17–16.  
[[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee]] (7–0) and Vanderbilt (6–1) faced off in Nashville, and the Vols suffered their first defeat, 20–3.  [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] (8–0–0) hosted Washington State (7–1–0) in another big PCC game, and won, 29–10.

[[Northwestern Wildcats football|Northwestern]], meanwhile, beat Chicago 38–7.  [[Illinois football|Illinois]] defeated Wabash 27–13
[[Navy football|Navy]] defeated Georgetown University, 10–7, and [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] recorded a fourth shutout, over Susquehanna, 68–0;  [[Alabama football|Alabama]] beat Florida, 49–0;  [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] lost again, at Nebraska, 3–0.  [[Brown University|Brown]] won at Harvard, 21–0 and [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] beat Columbia 3–0.

'''November 20'''  [[Navy football|Navy]] played Loyola College of Baltimore, winning 35–13, and [[Army Black Knights football|Army]] beat  Ursinus, 21–15.  [[Lafayette College|Lafayette]] completed its season with a 35–0 win in its annual game against Lehigh
[[Brown University|Brown]] defeated New Hampshire, 40–12, to extend its record to 9–0–0.

[[Ohio State football|Ohio State]] closed its season with a 7–6 win at [[Illinois football|Illinois]], while [[Michigan football|Michigan]] recorded the same score in a rematch against the Gophers at Minnesota.  [[Northwestern Wildcats football|Northwestern]] defeated Iowa, 13–6.  All three schools finished 7–1–0, with Michigan and Northwestern being 5–0 in Western Conference play.

[[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] beat Drake, 21–0.  [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]], after winning its first five, lost its next three, including a 3–2 defeat by visiting Iowa State; the Wildcats' final record was 5–3–0.  [[USC Trojans football|USC]] defeated Idaho, 38–6.  [[Stanford Cardinal football|Stanford]] closed the regular season with its traditional finale against California.  Though the Golden Bears had the home field, they were also having their first losing season since 1916, when their program began.  California lost, 41–6.

On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, [[Alabama football|Alabama]] hosted Georgia winning 33–6, and [[USC Trojans football|USC]] crushed Montana, 61–0.  [[University of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] closed its season with a 10–10 tie with Cornell.

On '''November 27''', [[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] was shocked by Carnegie Tech, 19–0.  The 1926 Army-Navy game took place in Chicago.  [[Navy football|Navy]], at 9–0–0, was unbeaten, while Army (7–1–0) had a single loss, to Notre Dame.  The two teams played to a 21–21 tie.  In Providence, [[Brown University|Brown]] and Colgate tied, 10–10.

'''December 4''' In Los Angeles, [[Notre dame football|Notre Dame]] closed its season with a 13–12 win over [[USC Trojans football|USC]].

At season's end, there were two "unbeaten and untied" teams, the Indians (later, "the Cardinal") of Leland Stanford University, and the Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama.  Alabama, which had won the Rose Bowl the previous year, was invited to return to Pasadena to face Stanford's PCC champion team.

==Rose Bowl==
{{main|1927 Rose Bowl}}

[[United Press International|United Press]] called the 1927 Rose Bowl "the football championship of America", and the game was considered the most exciting in the series up to that time. The crowd of 68,000 set an attendance record. Stanford's [[George Bogue]] missed an 18-yard field goal attempt in the first quarter, then threw a touchdown pass to [[Ed Walker (American football)|Ed Walker]] and kicked the point after to put Stanford up, 7–0. Stanford held that lead through most of the rest of the game, but in the final minutes, they were forced to punt on fourth down. [[Frank Wilton|Frankie Wilton's]] kick was blocked, and Alabama took over 14 yards from goal. Four plays later, and with a minute left, Jimmy Johnson carried the ball for a touchdown, making it 7–6. The two-point conversion, and overtime, were decades in the future. Stanford's only hope was to block the point after, but Alabama ran the play quickly and [[Herschel Caldwell]]'s kick tied Stanford, and took away a Stanford victory in the final minute.
<ref>"Stanford and Alabama Play Tie", ''Oakland Tribune'', Jan. 2, 1927, p D-1; [www.rosebowlhistory.org]</ref>

==Conference standings==
For this article, major conferences defined as those including multiple state [[Flagship#Colleges and universities in the United States|flagship]] public universities.

===Major conference standings===
{| cellpadding="5"
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Big Ten Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Missouri Valley Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 New England Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 North Central Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Pacific Coast Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Rocky Mountain Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Southern Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Southwest Conference football standings}}
|}

===Independents===
{| cellpadding="5"
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Eastern college football independents records}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Midwestern college football independents records}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Southern college football independents records}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Western college football independents records}}
|}

===Minor conferences===
{| class="wikitable" width="60%"
!style="background:#0054B3; color:#FFFFFF;" |Conference
!style="background:#0054B3; color:#FFFFFF;" |Champion(s)
!style="background:#0054B3; color:#FFFFFF;" |Record
|- align="left"
| [[Central Intercollegiate Athletics Association]]
| [[Hampton Pirates football|Hampton Institute]]
| 6–0–1
|- align="left"
| [[Far Western Conference]]
| [[Saint Mary's Gaels football|Saint Mary's (CA)]]
| 4–0
|- align="left"
| [[Inter-Normal Athletic Conference of Wisconsin]]
| [[Wisconsin–River Falls Falcons|River Falls Normal]]
| 4–0
|- align="left"
| [[Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]]
| [[Parsons College|Parsons]]
| 6–0–1
|- align="left"
| [[Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference]]
| [[Emporia State Hornets football|Kansas State Normal]]
| 7–0
|- align="left"
| [[Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
| [[Alma Scots|Alma]]
| 4–0
|- align="left"
| [[Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference]]
| [[Carleton Knights football|Carleton]]
| 3–0
|- align="left"
| [[Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]]
| [[Gustavus Adolphus Golden Gusties|Gustavus Adolphus]]
| 6–0
|- align="left"
| [[Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
| [[Central Missouri Mules|Central Missouri State Teachers]]
| 4–0
|- align="left"
| [[North Central Intercollegiate Conference]]
| [[South Dakota State Jackrabbits football|South Dakota State College]]
| 3–0–2
|- align="left"
| [[Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference]]
| [[Chadron State Eagles|Nebraska State Teachers–Chadron]]
| 6–0
|- align="left"
| [[Ohio Athletic Conference]]
| [[Muskingum Fighting Muskies|Muskingum]]
| 7–0
|- align="left"
| [[Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference (1914–1928)|Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference]]
| [[Southwestern Oklahoma State Bulldogs football|Southwestern State Teachers]]
| 5–0
|- align="left"
| [[Pacific Northwest Conference]]
| [[College of Idaho Coyotes football|College of Idaho]]
| 2–0
|- align="left"
| [[South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference]]
| Columbus College<br>[[Dakota Wesleyan Tigers|Dakota Wesleyan]]
| 4–0<br>5–0
|- align="left"
| [[Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]]
| [[Pomona Sagehens|Pomona]]
| 5–2
|- align="left"
| [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]]
| [[Tuskegee Golden Tigers|Tuskegee]]
| 8–0
|- align="left"
| [[Southwestern Athletic Conference]]
| [[1926 Samuel Huston Dragons football team|Samuel Huston]]
| 5–0
|- align="left"
| [[Texas Collegiate Athletic Conference]]
| [[1926 Simmons Cowboys football team|Simmons (TX)]]
| 2–0–1
|- align="left"
| [[Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
| [[1926 Daniel Baker Hillbillies football team|Daniel Baker]]
| 4–0
|- align="left"
| [[Tri-Normal League]]
| [[Central Washington Wildcats football|State Normal–Ellensburg]]
| 2–0
|}

===Minor conference standings===
{| cellpadding="5"
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Buckeye Athletic Association football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 California Coast Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Far Western Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Iowa Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Missouri College Athletic Union football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Nebraska College Athletic Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 New York State Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Northwest Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Northwest Ohio League football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Ohio Athletic Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Southern California Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Southwestern Athletic Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Texas Conference football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings}}
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 West Virginia Athletic Conference football standings}}
|-
|valign="top" width=25em|{{1926 Wisconsin State Teachers College Conference football standings}}
|}

==Rankings==

{{main|1926 college football rankings}}

===Dickinson System===
Frank G. Dickinson, an economics professor at the University of Illinois, had invented the [[Dickinson System]] to rank colleges based upon their records and the strength of their opposition.  The system was originally designed to rank teams in the Big Nine (later the [[Big Ten]]) conference.  Chicago clothing manufacturer Jack Rissman then persuaded Dickinson to rank the nation's teams under the system, and awarded the Rissman Trophy to the winning university.<ref>Herschel Nissenson ''Tales From College Football's Sidelines'' (Sports Publishing LLC, 2001), p93.</ref>

Although Dickinson had applied the system to the 1924 and 1925 seasons, 1926 was the first year in which the [[Rissman Trophy]] was awarded at season's end.  The system awarded 30 points for a win over a "strong team", and 20 for a win over a "weak team".  Losses were awarded points (15 for loss to a strong team, 10 for loss to a weak team).  Ties were treated as half a win and half a loss (22.5 for a tie with a strong team, 15 for a tie with a weak team).  An average was then derived by dividing the points by games played.<ref>"The Dickinson system awards 30 points for a victory over a strong team, and 20 for victory over a weak team.  Defeats count half as much as victories, and ties are considered as games half won and half lost.  Dividing this total by the number of games played gives the final rating, "ILLINOIS BEST FOOTBALL TEAM OF YEAR", ''The Syracuse Herald'', Dec. 4, 1927, p23</ref>

Professor Dickinson's rating metrics were unfavorable to Alabama, which won all nine of its regular season games, but were given an average rating of 16.67, less than the average for wins over weak (20.00 point) contenders. Alabama was the only Southern team in the 1926 rankings.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Rank<ref>"System Places Stanford First", ''Nevada State Journal'' (Reno), December 17, 1926, p6</ref>
! Team
! Record
! Rating
|-
| 1
| [[1926 Stanford football team|Stanford]]
| 10–0-1
| 22.50
|-
| 2
| [[1926 Navy Midshipmen football team|Navy]]
| 9–0–1
| 21.83
|-
| 3 (t)
| [[1926 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]
| 7–1
| 21.25
|-
| 3 (t)
| [[1926 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]]
| 9–1
| 21.25
|-
| 5
| [[1926 Lafayette Leopards football team|Lafayette]]
| 9–0
| 20.00
|-
| 6
| [[1926 USC Trojans football team|USC]]
| 8–2
| 17.70
|-
| 7
| [[1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
| 9–0–1
| 16.67 
|-
| 8 
| [[1926 Ohio State Buckeyes football team|Ohio State]]
| 7–1
| 16.25 
|-
| 9
| [[1926 Army Cadets football team|Army]]
| 7–1–1
| 14.38 
|-
| 10
| [[1926 Brown Bears football team|Brown]]
| 9–0–1
| 13.76 
|-
| 11 (t)
| [[1926 Illinois Fighting Illini football team|Illinois]]
| 6–2
| 13.75
|-
| 11 (t)
| [[1926 Northwestern Wildcats football team|Northwestern]]
| 7–1
| 13.75
|-
| 11 (t)
| [[1926 Penn Quakers football team|Penn]]
| 7–1–1
| 13.75
|}

==Awards and honors==
===All-Americans===
{{main|1926 College Football All-America Team}}
The consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-America]] team included:
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%"
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Position
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Name
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Height
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Weight (lbs.)
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Class
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Hometown
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Team
|-
|[[Quarterback|QB]]
|[[Benny Friedman]]
|5'8"
|172
|Sr.
|[[Cleveland, Ohio]]
|'''[[1926 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
|-
|[[Halfback (American football)|HB]]
|[[Mort Kaer]]
|5'11"
|167
|Sr.
|[[Omaha, Nebraska]]
|'''[[1926 USC Trojans football team|USC]]'''
|-
|[[Halfback (American football)|HB]]
|[[Ralph Baker (halfback)|Moon Baker]]
|5'10"
|172
|Sr.
|[[Rockford, Illinois]]
|'''[[1926 Northwestern Wildcats football team|Northwestern]]'''
|-
|[[Fullback (American football)|FB]]
|[[Herb Joesting]]
|6'1"
|192
|Jr.
|[[Owatonna, Minnesota]]
|'''[[1926 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team|Minnesota]]'''
|-
|[[End (American football)|E]]
|[[Bennie Oosterbaan]]
|6'0"
|180
|Jr.
|[[Muskegon, Michigan]]
|'''[[1926 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]]'''
|-
|[[Tackle (American football)|T]]
|[[Frank Wickhorst]]
|6'0"
|218
|Sr.
|[[Aurora, Illinois]]
|'''[[1926 Navy Midshipmen football team|Navy]]'''
|-
|[[Guard (American football)|G]]
|[[Bernie Shively]]
|6'4"
|208
|Sr.
|[[Paris, Illinois]]
|'''[[1926 Illinois Fighting Illini football team|Illinois]]'''
|-
|[[Center (American football)|C]]
|[[Bud Boeringer]]
|6'1"
|186
|Sr.
|
|'''[[1926 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team|Notre Dame]]'''
|-
|[[Guard (American football)|G]]
|[[Harry Connaughton]]
|6'4"
|250
|Sr.
|[[Philadelphia]]
|'''[[1926 Georgetown Hoyas football team|Georgetown]]'''
|-
|[[Tackle (American football)|T]]
|[[Bud Sprague]]
|6'2"
|210
|So.
|[[Dallas, Texas]]
|'''[[1926 Army Cadets football team|Army]]'''
|-
|[[End (American football)|E]]
|[[Vic Hanson]]
|5'10"
|174
|Sr.
|[[Syracuse, New York]]
|'''[[1926 Syracuse Orangemen football team|Syracuse]]'''
|-
|}

===Statistical leaders===
*Team scoring most points: [[1926 Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians football team|Haskell]], 558
*Player scoring most points: [[Fred Koster]], Louisville, 124, or [[Mayes McClain]], Haskell, 253
*Total offense leader: [[Gibby Welch]], Pitt

==References==
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