1888 Week 10 College Football Team Rankings
1888 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 | -2.357 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +15 | Beat Rutgers 80–0; Beat RUTGERS 82–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -1.889 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +12 | Beat M.i.t. 68–0; Beat STEVENS 69–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -1.129 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +5 | Beat Worcester Tech 68–0; Beat DARTMOUTH 74–0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.318 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Haverford 18–0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0.405 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 2–0–1 | 0.833 | 5 | 0 | Beat Massachusetts 34–0 |
| 6 | 2 | 1.225 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 8 | +1 | Beat Cornell 20–0 |
| 7 | 2 | 2.238 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 4–2 | 0.667 | 6 | -3 | Beat Bucknell 74–0; Lost to PENNSYLVANIA 0–36 |
| 8 | 3 | 2.561 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 5–3 | 0.625 | 7 | +5 | Beat Tioga 12–4; Beat LEHIGH 36–0 |
| 9 | 1 | 3.809 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 8 | +1 | Lost to Yale 0–68; Beat AMHERST 48–0 |
| 10 | -4 | 4.082 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 8 | -2 | Lost to Williams 0–20 |
| 11 | 1 | 8.045 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 11 | 0 | BYE |
| 12 | 3 | 11.832 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 0–4 | 0.000 | 14 | -7 | BYE |
| 13 | 0 | 12.747 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–4 | 0.200 | 12 | -5 | Lost to Yale 0–69 |
| 14 | 2 | 15.899 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–5–1 | 0.083 | 13 | -7 | Lost to M.i.t. 0–48 |
| 15 | -1 | 17.453 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–4 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–80; Lost to PRINCETON 0–82 |
| 16 | 1 | 20.295 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 14 | -2 | Lost to Lehigh 0–74 |
| 17 | 1 | 20.295 |  Worcester Tech (WORCESTER TECH) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–68 |
| 18 | -11 | 21.558 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–74 |