1883 Week 12 College Football Team Rankings
1883 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 | -6.125 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +6 | Beat Rutgers 92–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -1.950 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +10 | Beat Wesleyan 24–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -0.014 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +11 | Beat Stevens 11–2; Beat WILLIAMS 39–0 |
| 4 | 1 | 0.995 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 4 | +1 | Beat Johns Hopkins 30–0 |
| 5 | -1 | 1.636 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 10 | 0 | BYE |
| 6 | 0 | 3.389 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 3–4 | 0.429 | 6 | +2 | Lost to Harvard 2–11 |
| 7 | 0 | 5.680 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 5 | -4 | BYE |
| 8 | 2 | 10.789 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 7 | -5 | Beat Rutgers 25–0 |
| 9 | 0 | 14.372 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–5 | 0.167 | 8 | +1 | Lost to Princeton 0–24 |
| 10 | -2 | 16.862 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–5 | 0.167 | 8 | -8 | Lost to Yale 0–92; Lost to LAFAYETTE 0–25 |