1890 Week 9 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 | -1.691 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +10 | Beat Dartmouth 64–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -0.185 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 6 | -1 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 26–0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0.232 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 4–0–1 | 0.900 | 3 | +7 | Beat Pennsylvania 18–0; Beat CRESCENT A.C. 12–0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.289 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +5 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 40–0; Beat ORANGE A.C. 16–0 |
| 5 | 2 | 0.895 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 5–1 | 0.833 | 4 | +4 | Beat Troy Laureates 42–0; Beat BOWDOIN 50–0 |
| 6 | 2 | 1.042 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 6 | 0 | Beat Dickinson 12–0 |
| 7 | -2 | 1.117 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–1–1 | 0.500 | 9 | -1 | BYE |
| 8 | 1 | 1.789 |  Virginia (VIRGINIA) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 18 | 0 | BYE |
| 9 | -3 | 1.950 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 4–1 | 0.800 | 5 | +2 | Lost to Princeton 0–18; Beat LEHIGH 8–0 |
| 10 | 2 | 2.606 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 8 | +1 | BYE |
| 11 | -1 | 3.596 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 13 | -1 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–8 |
| 12 | 1 | 4.075 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 9 | 0 | Beat Columbia 4–0 |
| 13 | -2 | 4.788 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–64 |
| 14 | 1 | 4.961 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 13 | -1 | Beat NEW York A.c. 30–0 |
| 15 | -1 | 8.017 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–2–1 | 0.375 | 12 | -1 | BYE |
| 16 | 0 | 11.074 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 0–4–1 | 0.100 | 15 | -5 | Lost to Yale 0–40; Lost to CORNELL 0–26 |
| 17 | 0 | 12.968 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 16 | -2 | Lost to Wesleyan 0–4 |
| 18 | 0 | 13.347 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 16 | -1 | Lost to Bucknell 0–12 |