1977 independent School Ratings

Record: 212-180-9, .540 W-L% (2nd of 15) (Schedule and Results)

SRS: 1.81 (7th of 15), SOS: 0.24 (8th of 15)

Ranked in Preseason AP Poll: 3 (Notre Dame, Penn State and Pitt)
Ranked in Final AP Poll: 5 (Florida State, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pitt and San Diego State)

The SRS columns are SRS broken up into offensive and defensive components.
The Scoring columns are points per game adjusted for strength of opposition.
The Passing, Rushing, and Total columns are yards per attempt adjusted for strength of opposition.
AP Rank reflects the current AP poll ranking or the last ranking from the year.

36 Schools

36 Schools Table
			Overall			SRS			Scoring		Passing		Rushing		Total
Rk	School	AP Rank	W	L	T	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	Off	Def	Off	Def	Off	Def	Off	Def
1	Notre Dame	1	11	1	0	13.78	12.39	26.18	49.36	-2.37
2	Pitt	8	9	2	1	8.84	13.47	22.30	47.00	-2.65
3	Penn State	5	11	1	0	14.65	7.46	22.11	45.50	2.95
4	Florida State	14	10	2	0	9.03	7.20	16.23	37.54	4.32
5	San Diego State	16	10	1	0	6.89	4.24	11.13	35.74	7.92
6	North Texas		9	2	0	7.21	3.12	10.33	35.58	9.15
7	Georgia Tech		6	5	0	4.61	4.27	8.88	33.21	9.26
8	Syracuse		6	5	0	4.71	3.88	8.60	32.11	8.13
9	Navy		5	6	0	4.83	1.70	6.52	33.19	8.86
10	Memphis		6	5	0	3.33	2.23	5.56	31.09	8.10
11	South Carolina		5	7	0	0.88	3.68	4.56	28.98	7.56
12	East Carolina		8	3	0	3.55	0.87	4.42	31.38	11.02
13	West Virginia		5	6	0	5.10	-1.06	4.04	33.77	13.14
14	Army		7	4	0	5.79	-1.83	3.95	35.54	13.19
15	Tennessee State		8	1	1	-1.50	5.08	3.58	28.44	4.75
16	Boston College		6	5	0	3.87	-0.64	3.23	31.48	14.09
17	Miami (FL)		3	8	0	-3.24	6.35	3.11	24.60	7.15
18	Rutgers		8	3	0	0.77	2.04	2.81	31.29	10.80
19	Colgate		10	1	0	9.57	-7.45	2.13	37.25	18.93
20	Cincinnati		5	4	2	-5.48	6.41	0.93	26.75	5.18
			Overall			SRS			Scoring		Passing		Rushing		Total
Rk	School	AP Rank	W	L	T	OSRS	DSRS	SRS	Off	Def	Off	Def	Off	Def	Off	Def
21	William & Mary		6	5	0	0.88	-0.59	0.29	28.05	11.07
22	Southern Mississippi		6	6	0	0.09	0.13	0.22	28.01	12.30
23	Virginia Tech		3	7	1	-1.48	1.66	0.18	26.59	9.92
24	Louisville		7	4	1	-3.83	2.93	-0.89	27.85	10.99
25	Hawaii		5	6	0	1.83	-2.83	-1.00	29.31	15.11
26	Tulane		3	8	0	0.54	-1.63	-1.10	28.15	14.25
27	Temple		5	5	1	-0.18	-1.22	-1.40	29.08	16.55
28	Utah State		4	7	0	-3.71	0.63	-3.08	22.86	13.41
29	Villanova		4	7	0	-0.68	-4.22	-4.89	26.22	14.55
30	Air Force		2	8	1	-5.81	-0.43	-6.24	21.90	14.14
31	Northwestern State		6	5	0	-5.92	-2.48	-8.40	22.17	16.12
32	Richmond		3	8	0	-6.31	-3.69	-10.00	21.63	18.42
33	Illinois State		3	7	1	-5.28	-7.23	-12.51	21.54	19.14
34	Holy Cross		2	9	0	-11.43	-6.56	-17.99	15.90	19.78
35	Indiana State		3	7	0	-8.53	-9.59	-18.12	17.76	21.29
36	Louisiana-Monroe		2	9	0	-11.61	-9.03	-20.63	14.92	24.65

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