1890 Week 13 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 | -1.685 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 10–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +35 | Beat Amherst 64–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -1.032 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 11–0–1 | 0.958 | 3 | +40 | Beat Wesleyan 46–4 |
| 3 | 0 | -0.695 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 12–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +44 | Beat Pennsylvania 60–0 |
| 4 | 1 | 1.123 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 8–2 | 0.800 | 4 | +16 | Beat Dartmouth 6–0 |
| 5 | -1 | 1.381 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 8–3 | 0.727 | 6 | +19 | Lost to Yale 0–60 |
| 6 | 0 | 1.593 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 5–3 | 0.625 | 7 | +3 | Beat Lafayette 66–6 |
| 7 | 0 | 1.744 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 6–2 | 0.750 | 5 | +2 | Beat Gettysburg 68–0 |
| 8 | 0 | 2.862 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 5–4 | 0.556 | 9 | -9 | Beat Michigan 20–5 |
| 9 | 5 | 3.289 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 4–4–1 | 0.500 | 10 | -6 | Beat Crescent A.c. 68–0; Beat NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 62–0; Tied COLUMBIA 6–6 |
| 10 | 2 | 3.763 |  Virginia (VIRGINIA) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 8 | 0 | Beat Washington & LEE 46–0 |
| 11 | -1 | 3.985 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 4–4 | 0.500 | 10 | -7 | Lost to Williams 0–6 |
| 12 | -3 | 4.158 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 5–5–1 | 0.500 | 10 | +4 | Lost to Harvard 0–64 |
| 13 | 0 | 6.588 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 4–5 | 0.444 | 13 | +13 | Lost to Princeton 4–46 |
| 14 | 1 | 6.637 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–2–1 | 0.375 | 14 | -3 | BYE |
| 15 | 1 | 7.748 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 2–5–1 | 0.313 | 16 | -16 | BYE |
| 16 | -5 | 8.009 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–4–1 | 0.250 | 17 | -5 | Lost to Lehigh 6–66 |
| 17 | 0 | 8.424 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 3–6 | 0.333 | 15 | -10 | Lost to Columbia A.c. 0–6; Beat HAVERFORD 12–0 |
| 18 | 0 | 12.296 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 1–5–1 | 0.214 | 18 | -8 | Tied Rutgers 6–6 |