1889 Week 11 College Football Team Rankings
1889 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 | 2 | -1.090 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +14 | Beat Wesleyan 98–0 |
| 2 | -1 | -0.789 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 9–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +20 | Beat Pennsylvania 20–10; Beat STEVENS 30–0 |
| 3 | -1 | -0.656 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +16 | Beat Pennsylvania 35–0 |
| 4 | 0 | -0.218 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 4–1 | 0.800 | 6 | +3 | Beat Stevens 39–4 |
| 5 | 0 | 0.898 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 2–1–1 | 0.625 | 9 | +1 | Lost to Dickinson 0–10 |
| 6 | 2 | 0.938 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Franklin & Marshall 10–0; Beat HAVERFORD 28–0 |
| 7 | 0 | 1.200 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | BYE |
| 8 | 2 | 1.293 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 4–1 | 0.800 | 6 | 0 | Beat Amherst 60–6 |
| 9 | 2 | 2.160 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 12 | -2 | Beat Lafayette 16–10; Beat COLUMBIA 51–6 |
| 10 | -4 | 2.162 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 2–3–1 | 0.417 | 13 | -5 | Lost to Wesleyan 17–20 |
| 11 | -2 | 3.096 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 4–3 | 0.571 | 11 | +4 | Lost to Yale 10–20; Lost to HARVARD 0–35 |
| 12 | 1 | 3.557 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 8 | 0 | BYE |
| 13 | 1 | 4.493 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 3–2–1 | 0.583 | 10 | -2 | Beat Vermont 18–6 |
| 14 | -2 | 4.933 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–2–1 | 0.375 | 14 | -3 | Lost to Lehigh 10–16 |
| 15 | 0 | 6.566 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 3–5 | 0.375 | 14 | +1 | Beat Williams 20–17; Lost to PRINCETON 0–98 |
| 16 | 2 | 8.355 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–3–1 | 0.300 | 16 | -2 | Beat Swarthmore 8–0 |
| 17 | -1 | 9.048 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–5 | 0.167 | 18 | +2 | Lost to Yale 0–30; Lost to CORNELL 4–39 |
| 18 | 2 | 9.288 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 17 | -10 | Beat Ridgefield A.c. 18–0 |
| 19 | -2 | 11.909 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 0–4 | 0.000 | 21 | -6 | Lost to Bucknell 0–8 |
| 20 | -1 | 13.600 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–4–1 | 0.100 | 19 | -7 | Lost to Dartmouth 6–60 |
| 21 | 0 | 16.491 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–4–1 | 0.100 | 19 | -5 | Lost to Lehigh 6–51 |