1888 Week 7 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 | -3.213 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Rutgers 65–0 |
| 2 | 4 | -1.505 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Worcester Tech 70–0; Beat M.I.T. 18–0 |
| 3 | 8 | -1.332 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Lehigh 65–0; Beat CRESCENT A.C. 31–0 |
| 4 | 6 | -0.347 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Philadelphia ALL Stars 20–6; Beat STEVENS 48–0 |
| 5 | 10 | 0.116 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Amherst 16–0 |
| 6 | -3 | 1.368 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | BYE |
| 7 | -3 | 1.368 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | BYE |
| 8 | -3 | 1.368 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | BYE |
| 9 | -2 | 1.368 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | BYE |
| 10 | 6 | 1.368 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | BYE |
| 11 | 7 | 3.734 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 6 | 0 | Beat Amherst 54–0 |
| 12 | 2 | 5.642 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 9 | -1 | Lost to Lehigh 8–12 |
| 13 | -5 | 6.209 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 6 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–65; Beat SWARTHMORE 12–8 |
| 14 | -1 | 6.434 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 6 | 0 | Beat Olympic A.c. 2–0; Lost to PENNSYLVANIA 0–48 |
| 15 | -6 | 6.653 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–18 |
| 16 | -14 | 12.211 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 9 | -1 | Lost to Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 0–16; Lost to WESLEYAN 0–54 |
| 17 | -5 | 18.526 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–65 |
| 18 | -1 | 19.789 |  Worcester Tech (WORCESTER TECH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–70 |