1890 Final College Football Team Rankings

December 16, 1890By PowerUpRankings.com • Posted in 1890 Season Tags: • No Comments

1890 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.

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Rank	Change	Rating	Team	Conf	Record	Win %	Place	NOW	Game Status
1	0	-1.532	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	11–0	1.000	1	+54	BYE
2	0	-0.779	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	11–1–1	0.885	3	+53	BYE
3	0	-0.687	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	13–1	0.929	2	+64	BYE
4	0	1.125	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	8–2	0.800	4	+19	BYE
5	0	1.445	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	11–3	0.786	6	+38	Beat Rutgers 20–12
6	0	1.762	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	8–2	0.800	4	+3	BYE
7	0	1.902	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	8–4	0.667	8	-9	BYE
8	0	2.009	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	6–4	0.600	9	+1	BYE
9	1	3.068	Virginia (VIRGINIA)	IND FBSI	5–2	0.714	7	+1	BYE
10	-1	3.428	Rutgers (RUTGERS)	IND FBSI	5–5–1	0.500	11	-12	Lost to Pennsylvania 12–20
11	0	3.593	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	6–5–1	0.542	10	+5	BYE
12	0	4.088	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	4–4	0.500	11	-7	BYE
13	0	6.021	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	5–6	0.455	13	+10	BYE
14	0	6.680	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	1–3–1	0.300	17	-5	BYE
15	0	7.123	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	2–5–1	0.313	15	-10	BYE
16	0	7.614	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	2–5–1	0.313	15	-18	BYE
17	0	8.385	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	3–6	0.333	14	-12	BYE
18	0	12.963	Columbia (COLUMBIA)	IND FBSI	1–6–1	0.188	18	-14	BYE

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