1887 Week 9 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 | 0 | -3.758 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +5 | Beat Williams 74–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -3.163 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Amherst 98–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -2.612 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +14 | Beat Pennsylvania 57–0; Beat PENNSYLVANIA 42–0 |
| 4 | 0 | -1.925 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 5 | +1 | Tied Stevens 4–4 |
| 5 | 2 | 2.325 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 4–1 | 0.800 | 4 | +2 | Beat Haverford 12–4; Beat SWARTHMORE 31–6 |
| 6 | -1 | 4.337 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 7 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–57; Lost to PRINCETON 0–42 |
| 7 | 2 | 4.541 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 8 | -1 | Beat Stevens 5–2 |
| 8 | 2 | 4.965 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 6 | 0 | Beat Dickinson 20–0 |
| 9 | -1 | 5.114 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 8 | +2 | BYE |
| 10 | 5 | 7.434 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 1–1–1 | 0.500 | 8 | -2 | Beat Massachusetts 32–4; Tied BOSTON UNIVERSITY 14–14 |
| 11 | -5 | 8.252 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 11 | +1 | Lost to Yale 0–74 |
| 12 | 1 | 12.175 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–2–1 | 0.167 | 14 | -4 | Lost to Rutgers 2–5; Tied DARTMOUTH 4–4 |
| 13 | -1 | 13.649 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 12 | 0 | Lost to Maine 6–12 |
| 14 | -3 | 16.028 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 12 | -4 | Lost to Harvard 0–98 |
| 15 | -1 | 22.225 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | BYE |