Conference Summary
| Overall | Bowls | SRS | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Conference | Schs | G | W | L | T | Pct | G | W | L | T | Pct | SRS | SOS | Pre | Champion |
| 1 | Western Conference | 10 | 80 | 48 | 28 | 4 | .625 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.72 | 5.29 | Illinois, Minnesota | ||
| 2 | Independent | 29 | 263 | 163 | 75 | 26 | .667 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | 5.97 | -1.19 | ||
| 3 | Pacific Coast Conference | 9 | 79 | 47 | 23 | 10 | .650 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.23 | -1.62 | USC, Stanford | |
| 4 | Southern Conference | 22 | 207 | 112 | 82 | 13 | .572 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.48 | -0.25 | |||
| 5 | Southwest Conference | 7 | 63 | 37 | 21 | 5 | .627 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.14 | -3.18 | Texas A&M | ||
| 6 | Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association | 10 | 83 | 38 | 38 | 7 | .500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.09 | 1.06 | Missouri | ||
| 7 | Rocky Mountain Conference | 12 | 94 | 43 | 48 | 3 | .473 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -7.12 | -6.57 | Colorado State | ||
Consensus All-Americans