1890 Week 12 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 | -1.692 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 9–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +28 | Beat Orange A.c. 33–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -1.019 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 10–0–1 | 0.955 | 3 | +31 | Beat Columbia 85–0; Beat PENNSYLVANIA 6–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -0.579 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 11–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +32 | Beat Crescent A.c. 52–0; Beat RUTGERS 70–0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.718 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 8–2 | 0.800 | 4 | +14 | Beat Schuylkill Navy 34–10; Lost to PRINCETON 0–6 |
| 5 | 0 | 1.187 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 7–2 | 0.778 | 5 | +11 | Beat M.i.t. 36–0 |
| 6 | 5 | 2.348 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 4–3 | 0.571 | 7 | +1 | Beat Rutgers 4–2; Beat LEHIGH A.C. 60–6 |
| 7 | -1 | 2.490 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 5–2 | 0.714 | 6 | +2 | Beat Millersville 38–0 |
| 8 | 0 | 2.922 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 4–4 | 0.500 | 10 | -7 | Lost to Wesleyan 2–4; Beat BUCKNELL 26–0 |
| 9 | 3 | 2.986 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 5–4–1 | 0.550 | 9 | +4 | Beat Massachusetts 52–0; Beat DARTMOUTH 4–0 |
| 10 | -3 | 3.434 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 4–3 | 0.571 | 7 | -4 | Lost to Amherst 0–4 |
| 11 | 2 | 5.479 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–3–1 | 0.300 | 16 | -3 | BYE |
| 12 | 6 | 5.601 |  Virginia (VIRGINIA) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 10 | 0 | Beat Randolph Macon 136–0; Beat DICKINSON 14–10 |
| 13 | 1 | 5.612 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 4–4 | 0.500 | 10 | +12 | Beat Cornell 4–2 |
| 14 | -4 | 6.745 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 2–4 | 0.333 | 14 | -5 | Lost to Lehigh 2–4; Lost to YALE 0–70 |
| 15 | -6 | 6.852 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–2–1 | 0.375 | 13 | -4 | Lost to Cornell 0–26 |
| 16 | 0 | 7.508 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 2–5–1 | 0.313 | 15 | -14 | Beat Brown 20–16 |
| 17 | -2 | 9.399 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 2–5 | 0.286 | 17 | -9 | Lost to Navy 6–32; Lost to VIRGINIA 10–14 |
| 18 | -1 | 11.942 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 1–5 | 0.167 | 18 | -6 | Lost to Princeton 0–85 |