1892 Week 12 College Football Team Rankings
1892 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 | 2 | 0.204 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 11–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +38 | Beat NEW York A.c. 48–0; Beat PENNSYLVANIA 28–0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0.236 |  Purdue (PURDUE) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +13 | BYE |
| 3 | -2 | 0.271 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 10–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +36 | Beat Boston A.c. 16–12 |
| 4 | 1 | 0.524 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 8–1 | 0.889 | 7 | +15 | Beat Michigan 44–0; Beat M.I.T. 44–12 |
| 5 | -1 | 0.786 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 2–0–1 | 0.833 | 8 | +2 | BYE |
| 6 | 1 | 0.854 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 11–1 | 0.917 | 6 | +13 | BYE |
| 7 | 1 | 1.116 |  Minnesota (MINNESOTA) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +14 | Beat Northwestern 18–12 |
| 8 | -2 | 1.215 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 13–1 | 0.929 | 5 | +24 | Beat Lehigh 4–0; Lost to YALE 0–28 |
| 9 | 5 | 2.353 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 8–5 | 0.615 | 13 | +19 | Beat M.i.t. 14–0; Beat TRINITY (CONNECTICUT) 21–8 |
| 10 | 3 | 2.369 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 8–2 | 0.800 | 9 | +10 | BYE |
| 11 | -2 | 2.369 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | IND FBSI | 6–4 | 0.600 | 15 | +6 | Lost to Cornell 0–44; Beat CHICAGO 18–10 |
| 12 | -1 | 2.631 |  Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN) | IND FBSI | 6–2–2 | 0.700 | 11 | +13 | Lost to Minnesota 12–18; Beat LAKE FOREST 18–0 |
| 13 | -1 | 2.968 | Chicago (CHICAGO) | IND FBSI | 7–2–1 | 0.750 | 10 | -6 | Lost to Michigan 10–18 |
| 14 | 1 | 2.999 |  Navy (NAVY) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 15 | +6 | BYE |
| 15 | 1 | 3.538 |  Illinois (ILLINOIS) | IND FBSI | 5–3–1 | 0.611 | 14 | 0 | BYE |
| 16 | 1 | 3.671 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 4–2 | 0.667 | 12 | +12 | BYE |
| 17 | -7 | 4.023 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 4–3 | 0.571 | 17 | +10 | Lost to Amherst 0–14; Lost to CORNELL 12–44 |
| 18 | 0 | 4.464 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 5–4 | 0.556 | 18 | -5 | Beat Orange A.c. 30–0 |
| 19 | 1 | 5.127 |  Massachusetts (MASSACHUSETTS) | IND FBSI | 4–4–2 | 0.500 | 19 | -19 | Tied Mount Hermon 12–12 |
| 20 | 3 | 5.135 | Springfield (SPRINGFIELD) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 19 | -4 | Beat Williams 12–10 |
| 21 | 0 | 5.355 |  Wisconsin (WISCONSIN) | IND FBSI | 2–3 | 0.400 | 22 | -4 | BYE |
| 22 | -3 | 6.482 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 3–4–1 | 0.438 | 21 | -8 | Lost to Bowdoin 0–8 |
| 23 | 1 | 6.682 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 4–6 | 0.400 | 22 | -10 | Lost to Springfield 10–12 |
| 24 | -2 | 6.703 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 2–4–1 | 0.357 | 25 | -9 | Lost to Amherst 8–21 |
| 25 | 0 | 7.338 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 3–5–1 | 0.389 | 24 | -2 | BYE |
| 26 | 1 | 9.230 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–6 | 0.143 | 27 | -8 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–4 |
| 27 | -1 | 9.246 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–6–1 | 0.188 | 26 | -2 | Lost to Crescent A.c. 4–10 |