1888 Week 9 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 | 1 | -1.980 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +10 | Beat Pennsylvania 38–0 |
| 2 | -1 | -1.525 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +6 | Beat Wesleyan 46–0; Beat AMHERST 39–0; Beat WILLIAMS 30–0 |
| 3 | 2 | -0.598 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Williams 14–6; Beat ANDOVER 68–0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.039 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Rutgers 4–0 |
| 5 | 1 | 0.579 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 6 | 0 | BYE |
| 6 | 1 | 0.695 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Palmyra 26–0 |
| 7 | 1 | 1.789 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 18 | 0 | BYE |
| 8 | -5 | 2.188 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 10 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 6–14; Lost to YALE 0–30 |
| 9 | 2 | 2.693 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 6 | 0 | Beat Haverford 16–6; Beat SWARTHMORE 50–0 |
| 10 | 3 | 3.205 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 8 | +1 | Beat Stevens 18–12 |
| 11 | -2 | 3.778 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 8 | +1 | Beat Swarthmore 44–6; Lost to PRINCETON 0–38 |
| 12 | -2 | 8.045 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 11 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–46 |
| 13 | 1 | 11.172 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 11 | -4 | Lost to M.i.t. 12–18 |
| 14 | 3 | 11.579 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | Lost to Lafayette 0–4 |
| 15 | -3 | 12.211 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 0–4 | 0.000 | 14 | -5 | Lost to Pennsylvania 6–44; Lost to LEHIGH 0–50 |
| 16 | -1 | 15.495 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–4–1 | 0.100 | 13 | -5 | Lost to Yale 0–39 |
| 17 | -1 | 16.505 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | BYE |
| 18 | 0 | 20.547 |  Worcester Tech (WORCESTER TECH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 14 | 0 | BYE |