1890 Week 11 College Football Team Rankings
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.
| Rank | Change | Rating | Team | Conf | Record | Win % | Place | NOW | Game Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | -1.954 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +23 | Beat Cornell 77–0 |
| 2 | 1 | -0.832 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 8–0–1 | 0.944 | 3 | +16 | Beat Columbia A.c. 60–0; Beat VIRGINIA 115–0 |
| 3 | 1 | -0.167 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 9–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +21 | Beat Wesleyan 76–0 |
| 4 | 1 | 0.666 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 7–1 | 0.875 | 4 | +9 | Beat Virginia 72–0 |
| 5 | 1 | 1.380 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 6–2 | 0.750 | 5 | +7 | BYE |
| 6 | 3 | 2.742 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 4–2 | 0.667 | 6 | +3 | Beat Dickinson 10–9 |
| 7 | 4 | 2.915 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 4–2 | 0.667 | 6 | 0 | Beat Bowdoin 42–0 |
| 8 | -6 | 3.036 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 8 | -5 | Lost to Amherst 0–18; Lost to HARVARD 0–77 |
| 9 | 1 | 3.643 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–1–1 | 0.500 | 8 | 0 | BYE |
| 10 | 2 | 3.916 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 8 | -1 | BYE |
| 11 | 3 | 4.180 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 2–3 | 0.400 | 13 | 0 | Beat Lafayette 30–0 |
| 12 | 3 | 4.631 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 3–4–1 | 0.438 | 11 | -2 | Beat Cornell 18–0; Beat M.I.T. 38–4 |
| 13 | -5 | 5.601 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–3–1 | 0.300 | 15 | -3 | Lost to Lehigh 0–30 |
| 14 | -1 | 6.718 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 3–4 | 0.429 | 12 | +5 | Lost to Yale 0–76 |
| 15 | 1 | 7.246 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 2–3 | 0.400 | 13 | -6 | Beat Haverford 6–0; Lost to FRANKLIN & MARSHALL 9–10 |
| 16 | 1 | 8.962 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 1–5–1 | 0.214 | 16 | -13 | Beat Massachusetts 30–0 |
| 17 | 1 | 9.504 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 1–4 | 0.200 | 17 | -5 | Beat Fordham 40–0; Lost to CRESCENT A.C. 0–29 |
| 18 | -11 | 28.189 |  Virginia (VIRGINIA) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 18 | -1 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–72; Lost to PRINCETON 0–115 |