1887 Week 11 College Football Team Rankings
1887 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 | 1 | -3.438 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +12 | Beat Exeter 54–0; Beat WESLEYAN 110–0 |
| 2 | -1 | -3.328 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +15 | Beat Rutgers 74–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -3.025 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +24 | Beat Pennsylvania 95–0 |
| 4 | 0 | -0.867 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–1–1 | 0.625 | 7 | +2 | Lost to M.i.t. 15–24 |
| 5 | 0 | 1.011 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 2–1 | 0.667 | 5 | +4 | Beat Dartmouth 24–15 |
| 6 | 0 | 2.928 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 4–2 | 0.667 | 5 | +1 | BYE |
| 7 | 0 | 3.320 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 4 | +4 | BYE |
| 8 | 3 | 3.417 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 8 | 0 | Beat Union (NEW YORK) 94–0 |
| 9 | -1 | 7.067 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 4–4 | 0.500 | 8 | +2 | Beat Rutgers 13–10; Lost to PRINCETON 0–95 |
| 10 | 3 | 8.180 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 2–2–1 | 0.500 | 8 | -3 | Beat Amherst 22–6 |
| 11 | -2 | 8.339 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 2–5 | 0.286 | 12 | -9 | Lost to Pennsylvania 10–13; Lost to YALE 0–74 |
| 12 | -2 | 8.964 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 3–4 | 0.429 | 11 | +7 | Lost to Harvard 0–110 |
| 13 | -1 | 12.808 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 2–5 | 0.286 | 12 | -10 | Lost to Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 6–22 |
| 14 | 0 | 14.750 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–3–1 | 0.125 | 15 | -10 | BYE |
| 15 | 0 | 16.576 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 1–5 | 0.167 | 14 | -1 | Lost to Exeter 8–29 |