1889 Week 8 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 | 17 | -1.776 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 1–1–1 | 0.500 | 9 | 0 | Beat Union (NEW YORK) 130–0 |
| 2 | 1 | -1.100 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Wesleyan 63–5 |
| 3 | 6 | -0.800 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Millersville 60–0 |
| 4 | -3 | -0.700 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Lafayette 10–0 |
| 5 | 0 | -0.550 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat Dartmouth 38–0; Beat M.I.T. 62–0 |
| 6 | -4 | -0.300 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Rutgers 4–0 |
| 7 | 1 | 0.400 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Bucknell 20–4 |
| 8 | -4 | 0.500 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Lehigh 16–4 |
| 9 | -3 | 1.727 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–0–1 | 0.500 | 9 | 0 | BYE |
| 10 | 2 | 1.727 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 21 | 0 | BYE |
| 11 | 3 | 2.154 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 8 | -2 | Beat Columbia 24–4 |
| 12 | 1 | 3.182 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–4 |
| 13 | -6 | 3.353 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–38; Beat ANDOVER 45–4 |
| 14 | -4 | 4.491 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 0–1–1 | 0.250 | 13 | 0 | Tied Columbia 10–10; Lost to CORNELL 0–10 |
| 15 | 1 | 5.364 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 4–16 |
| 16 | -1 | 5.476 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 12 | +2 | Lost to Orange A.c. 0–6 |
| 17 | 0 | 10.455 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 15 | -1 | Lost to Yale 5–63 |
| 18 | 1 | 11.255 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Dickinson 4–20 |
| 19 | 1 | 13.873 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–2–1 | 0.167 | 14 | -1 | Tied Lafayette 10–10; Lost to TRINITY (CONNECTICUT) 4–24 |
| 20 | -9 | 15.836 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–62 |
| 21 | 0 | 20.200 | Swarthmore (SWARTHMORE) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | BYE |