1888 Week 13 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 | -1.805 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 11–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +40 | Beat Harvard 18–6 |
| 2 | 0 | -1.785 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 12–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +24 | Beat Wesleyan 105–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -1.159 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 12–1 | 0.923 | 3 | +18 | Lost to Princeton 6–18; Beat PENNSYLVANIA 50–0 |
| 4 | 1 | 0.556 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 5–0–1 | 0.917 | 4 | +3 | Beat Worcester Tech 8–4 |
| 5 | -1 | 0.814 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 6–1 | 0.857 | 5 | +9 | Lost to Lehigh 4–6 |
| 6 | 0 | 1.603 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 8–2 | 0.800 | 6 | +4 | Beat Lafayette 6–4 |
| 7 | 0 | 1.620 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 4–3 | 0.571 | 8 | +2 | Beat Stevens 42–4 |
| 8 | 0 | 2.547 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 7 | -2 | Beat Bucknell 20–0 |
| 9 | 0 | 4.647 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 5–7 | 0.417 | 9 | +8 | Lost to Harvard 0–50 |
| 10 | 0 | 7.203 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 2–4 | 0.333 | 11 | -3 | Lost to Dartmouth 0–30 |
| 11 | 1 | 7.325 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–4 | 0.333 | 11 | -2 | Beat M.i.t. 30–0; Lost to STEVENS 0–30 |
| 12 | -1 | 8.810 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 2–3 | 0.400 | 10 | -5 | Lost to Cornell 0–20 |
| 13 | 1 | 9.706 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 2–7–1 | 0.250 | 13 | -14 | Lost to Williams 4–42; Beat DARTMOUTH 30–0 |
| 14 | -1 | 13.246 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–6 | 0.143 | 16 | -1 | Lost to Yale 0–105 |
| 15 | 0 | 13.524 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 0–5 | 0.000 | 17 | -12 | BYE |
| 16 | 0 | 13.682 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–6–1 | 0.188 | 14 | -6 | BYE |
| 17 | 0 | 14.830 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–7–1 | 0.167 | 15 | -14 | Beat Massachusetts 58–0 |
| 18 | 0 | 16.589 |  Worcester Tech (WORCESTER TECH) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 17 | -2 | Lost to Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 4–8 |