1889 Week 13 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 | 0 | -1.186 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +29 | Beat Harvard 41–15 |
| 2 | 1 | -0.825 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 14–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +42 | Beat Amherst 32–0; Beat WILLIAMS 70–0; Beat WESLEYAN 52–0 |
| 3 | -1 | -0.540 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 9–1 | 0.900 | 3 | +27 | Lost to Princeton 15–41 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.322 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 4–3–1 | 0.563 | 11 | +1 | Tied Lafayette 6–6 |
| 5 | 3 | 0.824 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 6–1 | 0.857 | 5 | +7 | Beat M.i.t. 42–6 |
| 6 | 0 | 0.947 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 4–2 | 0.667 | 7 | +5 | BYE |
| 7 | -2 | 0.963 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 4–0–1 | 0.900 | 3 | +4 | BYE |
| 8 | -1 | 1.090 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 3–1–1 | 0.700 | 6 | +1 | BYE |
| 9 | 0 | 2.416 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 3–2–2 | 0.571 | 10 | +3 | Tied Lehigh 6–6 |
| 10 | 2 | 2.755 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 6–4 | 0.600 | 8 | +4 | Beat Rutgers 14–0 |
| 11 | -1 | 3.887 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 3–5–1 | 0.389 | 13 | -9 | Lost to Yale 0–70; Beat VERMONT 30–0 |
| 12 | -1 | 4.235 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 8 | +1 | Lost to Dartmouth 6–42 |
| 13 | 0 | 4.646 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 4–3–1 | 0.563 | 11 | -9 | Lost to Wesleyan 0–6; Beat STEVENS 12–0 |
| 14 | 1 | 5.947 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 2–5–1 | 0.313 | 16 | -10 | Lost to Yale 0–32; Beat WILLISTON 64–0 |
| 15 | -1 | 7.188 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 4–7 | 0.364 | 14 | +5 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 6–0; Lost to YALE 0–52 |
| 16 | 0 | 8.546 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–3–1 | 0.300 | 17 | -3 | BYE |
| 17 | 0 | 8.878 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–4 | 0.200 | 18 | -17 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–14 |
| 18 | 0 | 9.911 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–8 | 0.111 | 20 | -10 | Lost to Columbia 6–12; Lost to TRINITY (CONNECTICUT) 0–12 |
| 19 | 0 | 11.448 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 15 | -5 | BYE |
| 20 | 1 | 13.053 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 1–6–1 | 0.188 | 19 | -9 | Beat Stevens 12–6 |
| 21 | -1 | 13.055 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 0–6 | 0.000 | 21 | -10 | Lost to Haverford 4–10 |