Pre-classification Independents
A former conference: 110 schools on file. Our membership records under this name start in 1879.
1955 records
| Team | Overall | AP | Elo | Last 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Lafayette | 2–0 | 1201 | WW | ||
 Delaware | 1–0 | 1191 | W | ||
 Lehigh | 2–1 | 1220 | LWW | ||
 Dayton | 2–2 | 1173 | WLLW | ||
 Hawai’i | 1–2 | 1121 | WLL | ||
 Chattanooga | 1–3 | 1162 | LLLW | ||
 Bucknell | 0–2–1 | 1136 | TLL | ||
 Stetson | 0–1 | 1091 | L | ||
 Temple | 0–2 | 1233 | LL |
Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.
Schools
- Massachusetts
- Butler
- Lehigh
- Illinois State
- Miami (OH)
- USC
- Delaware
- South Dakota
- South Dakota State
- Wofford
- Akron
- Eastern Michigan
- Howard
- New Hampshire
- San José State
- Buffalo
- North Dakota
- North Dakota State
- Ohio
- Marshall
- Northern Iowa
- Rhode Island
- Central Michigan
- Indiana State
- UConn
- Eastern Illinois
- Morgan State
- Northern Illinois
- Alabama State
- Louisiana
- Louisiana Tech
- Stetson
- Hampton
- Idaho State
- Samford
- Southeast Missouri State
- Western Illinois
- Jacksonville State
- Texas State
- Dayton
- Western Michigan
- Florida A&M
- Northwestern State
- Prairie View A&M
- South Carolina State
- Elon
- Hawai’i
- Missouri State
- Arkansas State
- Middle Tennessee
- Louisville
- Memphis
- Sam Houston
- Southern Miss
- North Texas
- Presbyterian
- Southern Illinois
- Western Kentucky
- Cal Poly
- Northern Arizona
- UC Davis
- Southern
- Toledo
- Abilene Christian
- Bowling Green
- Valparaiso
- East Tennessee State
- Kent State
- Alcorn State
- Fresno State
- North Carolina Central
- Tennessee Tech
- Arkansas–Pine Bluff
- Delaware State
- Georgia Southern
- Morehead State
- Murray State
- Bethune-Cookman
- Campbell
- San Diego State
- UT Martin
- Miami
- Wagner
- App State
- Grambling
- Austin Peay
- Old Dominion
- SE Louisiana
- Western Carolina
- East Carolina
- Central Connecticut
- Bucknell
- Lafayette
- Rutgers
- Cincinnati
- Norfolk State
- Youngstown State
- Nevada
- Cornell
- Fordham
- Georgetown
- Yale
- Chattanooga
- Charlotte
- Jackson State
- Florida State
- Texas Southern
- McNeese
- Mississippi Valley State
- Temple
Every school and its years (110)
Members
- Arkansas State 1911–1917, 1919–1929, 1951–1955
- Bucknell 1937, 1948–1955
- Buffalo 1894–1903, 1915–1925, 1935–1942, 1946–1955
- Central Connecticut 1935–1941, 1946–1955
- Chattanooga 1942, 1945, 1949, 1951–1955
- Dayton 1905–1925, 1939–1942, 1946–1955
- Delaware 1889–1942, 1947–1955
- Hawai’i 1909–1941, 1946–1955
- Lafayette 1937, 1941–1945, 1951–1955
- Lehigh 1884–1955
- Samford 1902–1903, 1905, 1955
- Stetson 1901–1916, 1919–1925, 1932, 1941–1947, 1950–1955
- Temple 1954–1955
- Wagner 1927, 1930–1941, 1946–1955
- Youngstown State 1938–1955
- Abilene Christian 1919–1924, 1954
- Memphis 1912–1927, 1947–1954
- Southern Miss 1912–1930, 1942, 1946–1947, 1952–1954
- Marshall 1895, 1897–1917, 1919–1924, 1952–1953
- Mississippi Valley State 1953
- Fresno State 1921, 1942, 1944–1945, 1951–1952
- Bowling Green 1919–1920, 1932, 1942–1951
- Jackson State 1946, 1951
- McNeese 1951
- Middle Tennessee 1911–1942, 1946–1951
- Toledo 1917–1920, 1948–1951
- Campbell 1925–1950
- Grambling 1928–1950
- Texas Southern 1947–1950
- Valparaiso 1919–1923, 1926–1933, 1948–1950
- Central Michigan 1896–1926, 1931–1949
- Eastern Michigan 1891–1893, 1895, 1902–1919, 1926, 1931–1943, 1945–1949
- Idaho State 1902–1917, 1919–1942, 1944, 1946–1949
- Charlotte 1946–1948
- East Tennessee State 1920–1929, 1946–1948
- Tennessee Tech 1922–1929, 1943–1948
- Akron 1891–1896, 1899–1900, 1902–1903, 1908–1914, 1937–1942, 1946–1947
- Florida State 1947
- Louisiana 1901–1904, 1906–1947
- Western Michigan 1906–1925, 1932–1947
- Austin Peay 1930–1932, 1936–1941, 1946
- East Carolina 1932–1941, 1946
- Massachusetts 1879–1896, 1923–1942, 1945–1946
- Rhode Island 1895–1901, 1903–1917, 1919–1942, 1945–1946
- Cal Poly 1915–1917, 1919–1921, 1925–1929, 1931–1942, 1945
- Cornell 1941–1945
- Georgetown 1941–1945
- Presbyterian 1913–1920, 1942–1945
- Rutgers 1937–1945
- San Diego State 1925, 1942, 1945
- South Dakota 1889–1921, 1945
- Yale 1941–1945
- Delaware State 1924–1933, 1937–1939, 1941–1942, 1944
- Miami 1927–1928, 1943
- Fordham 1941–1942
- Louisville 1912–1916, 1921–1942
- Miami (OH) 1888–1910, 1940–1942
- Morehead State 1924–1928, 1933, 1942
- Ohio 1894–1909, 1939–1942
- SE Louisiana 1930–1942
- Wofford 1889–1890, 1893–1896, 1900, 1942
- Bethune-Cookman 1925–1941
- Georgia Southern 1924–1941
- Cincinnati 1938–1940
- Nevada 1940
- Old Dominion 1930–1940
- Norfolk State 1938–1939
- San José State 1893–1921, 1936–1938
- Jacksonville State 1904–1937
- Arkansas–Pine Bluff 1923–1935
- Alcorn State 1921–1927, 1929–1934
- Indiana State 1896–1933
- Southern 1916–1933
- Western Carolina 1931–1932
- Elon 1909–1931
- Kent State 1920–1931
- App State 1928–1930
- Northern Arizona 1915–1930
- Morgan State 1899–1928
- South Carolina State 1907, 1915–1916, 1923–1928
- Murray State 1924–1927
- North Carolina Central 1922–1927
- Northern Illinois 1899–1921, 1926–1927
- Northwestern State 1907–1913, 1926–1927
- UT Martin 1925–1927
- Florida A&M 1907–1925
- Western Kentucky 1913–1916, 1920–1925
- Southern Illinois 1913–1917, 1919, 1921–1924
- UC Davis 1915–1917, 1919–1924
- Sam Houston 1912–1917, 1919–1923
- Southeast Missouri State 1902–1913, 1915–1923
- New Hampshire 1893–1917, 1919–1922
- Northern Iowa 1895–1905, 1908–1922
- Prairie View A&M 1907–1922
- North Dakota 1894–1917, 1919–1921
- North Dakota State 1894–1917, 1919–1921
- North Texas 1913–1921
- South Dakota State 1889–1917, 1919–1921
- Texas State 1904–1921
- USC 1888–1921
- Louisiana Tech 1901–1914
- Butler 1884–1887, 1889–1913
- Western Illinois 1902–1913
- Alabama State 1901–1912
- Eastern Illinois 1899–1911
- Hampton 1902–1911
- Howard 1893–1895, 1897, 1899–1911
- Missouri State 1909–1911
- Illinois State 1887–1907
- UConn 1896
Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1879; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.
Who came and went
SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 2,002 team-seasons from 1879. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.
Honors while members
Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1879); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.