1882 Week 12 College Football Team Rankings
1882 rankings calculated with the Classic formula (Ken's 2016-based hybrid, applied retroactively); records, NOW and game results come from James Howell's historical college football score archive.
| Rank | Change | Rating | Team | Conf | Record | Win % | Place | NOW | Game Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0.503 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +12 | Beat Amherst 9–0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0.864 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +6 | Beat Columbia 8–0; Beat PENNSYLVANIA 10–0 |
| 3 | 0 | 1.323 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Columbia 2–0 |
| 4 | 3 | 2.040 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 5 | +1 | BYE |
| 5 | 1 | 2.043 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat City College OF NEW York 2–0 |
| 6 | 3 | 2.797 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 4–3 | 0.571 | 6 | +1 | Beat Lafayette 8–0; Beat COLUMBIA 2–0 |
| 7 | 3 | 3.865 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 7 | 0 | BYE |
| 8 | 0 | 4.123 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 8 | -1 | Lost to Yale 0–9 |
| 9 | 2 | 4.257 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 10 | 0 | BYE |
| 10 | 2 | 5.146 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 8 | -3 | Lost to Princeton 0–10 |
| 11 | -7 | 5.629 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 10 | -3 | Lost to Princeton 0–8; Lost to RUTGERS 0–2; Lost to HARVARD 0–2 |
| 12 | 1 | 8.371 |  Massachusetts (MASSACHUSETTS) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 10 | -5 | BYE |
| 13 | -8 | 9.286 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 10 | -3 | Lost to Rutgers 0–8 |