Conference Summary
| Overall | Bowls | SRS | Polls | ||||||||||||||
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| Rk | Conference | Schs | G | W | L | T | Pct | G | W | L | T | Pct | SRS | SOS | Pre | Final | Champion |
| 1 | Big Ten Conference | 10 | 91 | 49 | 40 | 2 | .549 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 10.60 | 8.65 | 5 | 4 | Ohio State |
| 2 | Southwest Conference | 7 | 70 | 39 | 30 | 4 | .562 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 | 9.82 | 7.77 | 2 | 3 | Rice |
| 3 | Southeastern Conference | 12 | 119 | 63 | 49 | 8 | .558 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 8.63 | 6.15 | 4 | 5 | Auburn |
| 4 | Atlantic Coast Conference | 8 | 80 | 39 | 37 | 5 | .512 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 6.14 | 5.78 | 1 | 2 | North Carolina State |
| 5 | Pacific Coast Conference | 9 | 89 | 44 | 44 | 2 | .500 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 5.93 | 5.28 | 2 | 0 | Oregon, Oregon State |
| 6 | Big Seven Conference | 7 | 71 | 34 | 32 | 5 | .514 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.95 | 1.98 | 1 | 1 | Oklahoma |
| 7 | Independent | 23 | 218 | 113 | 97 | 9 | .537 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .500 | -0.30 | -2.07 | 5 | 3 | |
| 8 | Southern Conference | 9 | 87 | 43 | 41 | 3 | .511 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5.01 | -4.32 | 0 | 1 | Virginia Military Institute | |
| 9 | Ivy Group | 8 | 71 | 35 | 34 | 2 | .507 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -6.24 | -6.33 | 0 | 0 | Princeton | |
| 10 | Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association | 6 | 59 | 32 | 26 | 1 | .551 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -7.22 | -8.45 | 0 | 1 | Arizona State | |
| 11 | Missouri Valley Conference | 5 | 50 | 20 | 28 | 2 | .420 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -8.24 | -4.76 | 0 | 0 | Houston | |
| 12 | Skyline Conference | 8 | 79 | 32 | 41 | 6 | .443 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -12.07 | -10.21 | 0 | 0 | Utah | |
Consensus All-Americans