1891 Week 6 College Football Team Rankings
1891 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 | 11 | -0.774 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Bucknell 62–4; Beat PENN STATE 24–2 |
| 2 | 4 | -0.570 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Syracuse 68–0 |
| 3 | 7 | 0.407 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Dartmouth 16–0 |
| 4 | 20 | 0.530 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Wesleyan 28–0; Beat CRESCENT A.C. 26–0 |
| 5 | 13 | 0.570 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Rutgers 12–0 |
| 6 | 15 | 0.611 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Springfield 16–14; Beat BROWN 8–0 |
| 7 | -5 | 1.259 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–0–1 | 0.500 | 11 | 0 | Tied Williams 0–0 |
| 8 | -5 | 1.259 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 20 | 0 | BYE |
| 9 | -4 | 1.259 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 20 | 0 | BYE |
| 10 | -2 | 1.259 | Dickinson (DICKINSON) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 20 | 0 | BYE |
| 11 | -2 | 1.259 | Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 20 | 0 | BYE |
| 12 | -1 | 1.259 | Haverford (HAVERFORD) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 20 | 0 | BYE |
| 13 | 1 | 1.259 |  Massachusetts (MASSACHUSETTS) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 20 | 0 | BYE |
| 14 | 1 | 1.259 |  Navy (NAVY) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 20 | 0 | BYE |
| 15 | 8 | 1.259 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 0–0–1 | 0.500 | 11 | 0 | Tied Amherst 0–0 |
| 16 | 9 | 1.892 | Springfield (SPRINGFIELD) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 14–16; Beat ORANGE A.C. 16–0 |
| 17 | 0 | 2.037 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Philadelphia ALL Stars 4–0 |
| 18 | 2 | 2.159 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat NEW York A.c. 6–5 |
| 19 | -15 | 2.339 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 11 | 0 | Beat M.i.t. 6–4; Lost to TRINITY (CONNECTICUT) 0–8 |
| 20 | -4 | 2.672 |  Penn State (PENN STATE) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 11 | 0 | Beat Lafayette 14–4; Lost to LEHIGH 2–24 |
| 21 | -20 | 3.126 |  Bucknell (BUCKNELL) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 10 | 0 | Lost to Lehigh 4–62; Beat WYOMING SEMINARY 32–0 |
| 22 | -3 | 4.148 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–12 |
| 23 | -16 | 4.859 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–16 |
| 24 | -11 | 5.926 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 15 | -1 | Lost to Brown 4–6 |
| 25 | 1 | 6.815 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 15 | -2 | Lost to Penn State 4–14 |
| 26 | -4 | 6.993 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–28 |