1887 Week 8 College Football Team Rankings
1887 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 | 3 | -3.987 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Wesleyan 106–0 |
| 2 | -1 | -2.922 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Williams 52–6 |
| 3 | 0 | -2.544 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Rutgers 30–0; Beat LEHIGH 80–0 |
| 4 | 3 | -2.200 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Tufts 52–0 |
| 5 | 4 | 0.550 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Tioga 46–0; Beat PENNSYLVANIA ALUMNI 18–0 |
| 6 | -4 | 2.180 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 7 | +1 | Lost to Harvard 6–52 |
| 7 | 6 | 3.498 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 6 | +1 | Beat Dickinson 12–0; Beat RUTGERS 20–0 |
| 8 | 2 | 5.224 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 7 | +1 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 58–0; Lost to YALE 0–106 |
| 9 | -4 | 5.845 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 10 | -1 | Lost to Princeton 0–30; Lost to LAFAYETTE 0–20 |
| 10 | -4 | 8.297 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 7 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–80 |
| 11 | 3 | 10.856 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 10 | -3 | Beat Massachusetts 10–0 |
| 12 | -1 | 12.980 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 10 | 0 | Lost to Dartmouth 0–52 |
| 13 | -1 | 16.600 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 13 | -2 | BYE |
| 14 | 1 | 22.000 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 13 | 0 | BYE |
| 15 | -7 | 24.400 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 13 | -2 | Lost to Wesleyan 0–58 |