1883 Week 13 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 | -5.983 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +12 | Beat Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute 49–0; Beat COLUMBIA 93–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -1.886 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +22 | Beat Harvard 26–7 |
| 3 | 1 | 0.351 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 5–2 | 0.714 | 4 | +2 | Beat Columbia 35–1; Beat RUTGERS 18–0 |
| 4 | -1 | 0.379 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 7–1 | 0.875 | 3 | +19 | Lost to Princeton 7–26 |
| 5 | 1 | 1.926 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 4–4 | 0.500 | 5 | 0 | Beat Seton Hall 60–0 |
| 6 | 3 | 9.183 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 3–5 | 0.375 | 6 | -1 | Beat Williams 21–0; Beat MICHIGAN 14–6 |
| 7 | 1 | 10.775 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 7 | -5 | BYE |
| 8 | -3 | 11.818 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 10 | -5 | Lost to Wesleyan 6–14 |
| 9 | -2 | 16.170 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 7 | -6 | Lost to Pennsylvania 1–35; Lost to YALE 0–93 |
| 10 | 0 | 16.589 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–6 | 0.143 | 9 | -10 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–18 |