The 1916 season

506 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Army claims the national title.

The 1916 Georgia Tech team
The 1916 Georgia Tech teamPhoto: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Scoreboards

Conference champions

Major college

Missouri Valley Conference
Nebraska
Pacific Coast Conference
Oregon and Washington (shared)
Rocky Mountain Conference
Colorado State
South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Virginia Tech
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Georgia Tech
Southwest Conference
Baylor and Texas (shared)
Western Conference
Ohio State

Small college

Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Hampton
Ohio Athletic Conference
Miami (OH)
Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference
Tulsa

From each program’s Wikipedia article, with the conference’s name that season. Titles come from the articles of today’s FBS and FCS programs, so a title shared with a school outside them lists only one champion.

Consensus All-Americans

12 playersAll 11 selectors’ teams

Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1916 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1916 All-America teams page.

From the newspapers

The The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current's story: GEORGIA TECH WINS FROM AUBURN TEAM
Nov 30, 1916Georgia Tech 33, Auburn 71916 Georgia Tech · 1916 AuburnThe Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, South Carolina, December 1, 1916, page 8
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GEORGIA TECH WINS FROM AUBURN TEAM Atlanta, Ga, Nov. 30.-Georgia Tech overwhelmed Auburn here today % to Z and clinched it’s right to contest with Tennessee, the only other undefeated eleven in the South, the premier football honors of this section. Techs fast backs ran through and around Auburn almost at will, while the Yellow Jackets forwards completely outpIayed their opponents, time after time breaking through and throwing the Plains mems back for losses.

Public domain, from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through American Stories (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Bowls and playoff

Scoreboard
Jan 1, 1917Oregon 14, Pennsylvania 0Rose Bowl