1889 Week 14 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 | -1.087 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +33 | Beat Orange A.c. 54–6 |
| 2 | 0 | -0.603 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 16–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +60 | Beat Crescent A.c. 18–0; Beat HARVARD 6–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -0.313 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 9–2 | 0.818 | 5 | +29 | Lost to Yale 0–6 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.256 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 5–3–2 | 0.600 | 9 | +9 | Beat Pennsylvania 8–0; Tied WESLEYAN 11–11 |
| 5 | 1 | 0.674 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 5–2 | 0.714 | 7 | +5 | Beat Michigan 66–0 |
| 6 | 2 | 0.694 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 4–1–1 | 0.750 | 6 | +2 | Beat Fordham 56–0 |
| 7 | -2 | 0.845 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 6–1 | 0.857 | 4 | +8 | BYE |
| 8 | -1 | 0.963 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 4–0–1 | 0.900 | 3 | +6 | BYE |
| 9 | 1 | 2.863 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 7–5 | 0.583 | 10 | +5 | Lost to Lehigh 0–8; Beat LAFAYETTE 14–0 |
| 10 | -1 | 3.181 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 3–3–2 | 0.500 | 11 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–14 |
| 11 | 2 | 3.409 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 5–3–1 | 0.611 | 8 | -9 | Beat Rochester 72–0 |
| 12 | -1 | 3.581 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 4–5–1 | 0.450 | 14 | -7 | Beat M.i.t. 18–6 |
| 13 | -1 | 5.241 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 11 | -4 | Lost to Williams 6–18 |
| 14 | 0 | 5.483 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 3–5–2 | 0.400 | 15 | -10 | Beat Stevens 12–5; Tied COLUMBIA 0–0 |
| 15 | 0 | 7.299 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 4–7–1 | 0.375 | 16 | +6 | Tied Lehigh 11–11 |
| 16 | 3 | 7.529 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 11 | -4 | Beat Bucknell 12–0 |
| 17 | -1 | 8.931 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–4–1 | 0.250 | 18 | -4 | Lost to Penn State 0–12 |
| 18 | -1 | 9.514 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–4 | 0.200 | 19 | -20 | BYE |
| 19 | -1 | 10.038 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–9 | 0.100 | 21 | -16 | Lost to Amherst 5–12 |
| 20 | 0 | 10.443 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 2–6–2 | 0.300 | 17 | -10 | Beat Manhattan A.c. 22–0; Tied AMHERST 0–0 |
| 21 | 0 | 10.491 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 1–6 | 0.143 | 20 | -12 | Beat Swarthmore Alumni 16–0 |