1900 college football season

1900 college football season
Total # of teams	41
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Yale Bulldogs
College football seasons « 1899 1901 »

The 1900 college football season ended with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.

Conference and program changes

• The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, commonly known as the Western Conference and the precursor to the modern Big Ten Conference, added two new members, Indiana and Iowa, to increase its membership to nine. It was after this expansion that the conference first gained the unofficial moniker Big Nine Conference.

School	1899 Conference	1900 Conference
Indiana Hoosiers	Independent	Big Nine (Western)
Iowa Hawkeyes	Independent	Big Nine (Western)

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1900 Big 9 football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Minnesota + 3 – 0 – 1     10 – 0 – 2 Iowa + 2 – 0 – 1     7 – 0 – 1 Wisconsin 2 – 1 – 0     8 – 1 – 0 Michigan 3 – 2 – 0     7 – 2 – 1 Northwestern 2 – 1 – 2     7 – 2 – 3 Chicago 2 – 3 – 1     9 – 5 – 1 Indiana 1 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 2 Illinois 1 – 3 – 2     7 – 3 – 2 Purdue 0 – 4 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 + – Conference co-champions

1900 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Clemson + 3 – 0 – 0     6 – 0 – 0 Auburn + 3 – 0 – 0     4 – 0 – 0 Tulane + 3 – 0 – 0     5 – 0 – 1 Sewanee 5 – 0 – 1     6 – 1 – 1 North Carolina 3 – 0 – 1     4 – 1 – 3 Texas 1 – 0 – 0     6 – 0 – 0 Davidson 1 – 1 – 0     4 – 1 – 0 Vanderbilt 2 – 3 – 1     4 – 4 – 1 Alabama 1 – 3 – 0     2 – 3 – 0 Georgia 1 – 3 – 0     2 – 4 – 0 Nashville 1 – 3 – 0     1 – 3 – 0 Tennessee 0 – 2 – 1     3 – 2 – 1 LSU 0 – 1 – 0     2 – 2 – 0 Cumberland 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0 Mississippi 0 – 3 – 0     0 – 3 – 0 Georgia Tech 0 – 4 – 0     0 – 4 – 0 Kentucky State 0 – 0 – 0     4 – 6 – 0 + – Conference co-champions

See also

• 1900 College Football All-America Team