1888 Week 8 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 | -2.335 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Pennsylvania 34–0 |
| 2 | 1 | -2.243 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Pennsylvania 63–0; Beat STEVENS 80–0 |
| 3 | 7 | -1.795 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Amherst 53–0 |
| 4 | 5 | -0.811 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Bucknell 54–0; Beat SWARTHMORE 18–0 |
| 5 | -3 | -0.666 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Exeter 30–6; Beat WESLEYAN 34–0 |
| 6 | -1 | 0.347 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 6 | 0 | Tied Amherst 0–0 |
| 7 | 0 | 1.684 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 17 | 0 | BYE |
| 8 | 0 | 1.684 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 17 | 0 | BYE |
| 9 | -5 | 4.032 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 7 | +1 | Lost to Princeton 0–63; Lost to YALE 0–34 |
| 10 | 1 | 6.004 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–34 |
| 11 | 2 | 6.572 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 7 | 0 | BYE |
| 12 | 0 | 6.779 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 12 | -1 | Lost to Lafayette 0–18 |
| 13 | 2 | 7.032 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 12 | 0 | BYE |
| 14 | 0 | 11.404 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 9 | -2 | Lost to Princeton 0–80 |
| 15 | 1 | 14.189 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–3–1 | 0.125 | 11 | -2 | Tied Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 0–0; Lost to WILLIAMS 0–53 |
| 16 | -10 | 16.126 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 12 | 0 | Lost to Lafayette 0–54 |
| 17 | 0 | 18.905 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 12 | 0 | BYE |
| 18 | 0 | 20.168 |  Worcester Tech (WORCESTER TECH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 12 | 0 | BYE |