1890 Week 7 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 | -1.621 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 9 | 0 | Beat Dickinson 52–0; Tied BUCKNELL 0–0 |
| 2 | -1 | -1.563 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Rochester 98–0; Beat UNION (NEW YORK) 32–0 |
| 3 | -2 | -0.695 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Swarthmore 50–0 |
| 4 | -3 | -0.174 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Exeter 41–0 |
| 5 | -4 | 0.405 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Franklin & Marshall 33–16 |
| 6 | -5 | 0.811 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Amherst 6–0 |
| 7 | -6 | 1.100 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Wesleyan 8–0; Beat CRESCENT A.C. 18–6 |
| 8 | -7 | 1.158 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Swarthmore 10–0; Beat RUTGERS 16–4 |
| 9 | -8 | 1.684 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 0–0–1 | 0.500 | 10 | 0 | Tied Lafayette 0–0 |
| 10 | -9 | 1.684 |  Virginia (VIRGINIA) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 18 | 0 | BYE |
| 11 | -10 | 1.911 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Andover 10–5 |
| 12 | -11 | 2.765 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 10 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–8; Beat TRINITY (CONNECTICUT) 12–5 |
| 13 | -12 | 3.014 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 10 | 0 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 12–11; Lost to WILLIAMS 0–6 |
| 14 | -13 | 5.705 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 13 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 4–16 |
| 15 | -14 | 6.968 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 13 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 16–33 |
| 16 | -15 | 8.232 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 13 | -2 | Lost to Amherst 11–12; Lost to WESLEYAN 5–12 |
| 17 | -16 | 15.811 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 13 | 0 | Lost to Lafayette 0–52 |
| 18 | -17 | 17.074 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 13 | 0 | Lost to Orange A.c. 0–21 |