1894 Week 8 College Football Team Rankings
1894 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 | 5 | 0.354 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +8 | Beat Williams 23–4; Beat LEHIGH 34–0 |
| 2 | 2 | 0.550 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Brown 18–4 |
| 3 | -2 | 0.550 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Crescent A.c. 22–0; Beat GEORGETOWN 46–0 |
| 4 | -2 | 0.602 |  Cornell (CORNELL) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Lafayette 24–0 |
| 5 | -2 | 0.766 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Rutgers 48–0; Beat VIRGINIA 12–0 |
| 6 | 1 | 0.786 |  Lake Forest (LAKE FOREST) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Northwestern 24–6 |
| 7 | 2 | 1.310 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Boston University 18–0 |
| 8 | 9 | 1.362 |  Purdue (PURDUE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Butler 30–0; Beat WISCONSIN 6–0 |
| 9 | 5 | 1.571 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 10 | 0 | Beat Albion 26–10 |
| 10 | 3 | 1.786 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 26 | 0 | BYE |
| 11 | 4 | 1.786 |  Minnesota (MINNESOTA) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 26 | 0 | BYE |
| 12 | 7 | 1.837 | Chicago (CHICAGO) | IND FBSI | 7–1 | 0.875 | 9 | +4 | Beat Rush Medical 16–6; Beat BELOIT 16–0 |
| 13 | 5 | 2.319 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 14 | +1 | Lost to Harvard 4–18; Beat ARMY 10–0 |
| 14 | 7 | 2.693 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 10 | 0 | Beat Rensselaer 16–0; Beat WESLEYAN 28–0 |
| 15 | -3 | 2.906 |  Beloit (BELOIT) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 10 | -1 | Lost to Chicago 0–16 |
| 16 | -6 | 2.938 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 13 | 0 | Lost to Yale 4–23 |
| 17 | -12 | 3.000 |  Army (ARMY) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 15 | +1 | Lost to Brown 0–10 |
| 18 | -7 | 3.056 |  Wisconsin (WISCONSIN) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Purdue 0–6 |
| 19 | 1 | 3.315 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 15 | 0 | Beat Swarthmore 33–0; Lost to YALE 0–34 |
| 20 | 5 | 4.577 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 19 | +1 | Beat Massachusetts 10–0 |
| 21 | -13 | 5.515 |  Illinois (ILLINOIS) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 15 | 0 | Lost to Chicago A.c. 0–14 |
| 22 | 0 | 6.409 |  Massachusetts (MASSACHUSETTS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 19 | -3 | Lost to Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 0–10 |
| 23 | 4 | 6.515 |  Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 19 | -1 | Beat Evanston High 14–0; Lost to LAKE FOREST 6–24 |
| 24 | -1 | 6.770 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 22 | 0 | Lost to Cornell 0–24 |
| 25 | -1 | 7.000 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 23 | 0 | BYE |
| 26 | 0 | 9.571 |  Union (new York) (UNION (NEW YORK)) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 23 | 0 | BYE |
| 27 | -11 | 11.457 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 23 | -1 | Lost to Amherst 0–28 |