| Overall | Bowls | SRS | ||||||||||||||
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| Rk | Conference | Schs | G | W | L | T | Pct | G | W | L | T | Pct | SRS | SOS | Pre | Champion |
| 1 | Western Conference | 10 | 79 | 42 | 24 | 13 | .614 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.50 | 3.16 | Chicago | ||
| 2 | Pacific Coast Conference | 9 | 81 | 49 | 22 | 10 | .667 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | 7.46 | 1.12 | Stanford | |
| 3 | Southern Conference | 22 | 204 | 109 | 80 | 15 | .571 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.22 | 1.23 | |||
| 4 | Southwest Conference | 8 | 75 | 45 | 20 | 10 | .667 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 3.55 | -2.06 | Baylor | |
| 5 | Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association | 9 | 71 | 35 | 31 | 5 | .528 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 1.33 | 0.65 | Missouri | |
| 6 | Independent | 42 | 364 | 193 | 145 | 26 | .566 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | -0.20 | -2.51 | ||
| 7 | Rocky Mountain Conference | 11 | 84 | 43 | 33 | 8 | .560 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1.51 | -3.72 | Colorado | ||
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Jimmy Crowley, B, Notre Dame Red Grange*, B, Illinois Elmer Layden, B, Notre Dame Harry Stuhldreher, B, Notre Dame Jim Lawson, E, Stanford Dick Luman, E, Yale Henry Wakefield, E, Vanderbilt Carl Diehl, L, Dartmouth Edwin Horrell, L, California Ed Mcginley, L, Pennsylvania Joe Pondelik, L, Chicago Ed Weir, L, Nebraska |