1887 Week 12 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 | -3.182 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +20 | Beat Crescent A.c. 68–0; Beat WESLEYAN 76–4 |
| 2 | -1 | -3.132 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 9–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +22 | Beat Princeton 12–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -3.010 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 7–1 | 0.875 | 3 | +31 | Lost to Harvard 0–12 |
| 4 | 0 | -0.939 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–1–1 | 0.625 | 6 | +3 | BYE |
| 5 | 0 | -0.081 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 4 | +7 | Beat Amherst 54–0 |
| 6 | 0 | 2.436 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 5–2 | 0.714 | 5 | +1 | Beat Rutgers 36–0 |
| 7 | 1 | 3.764 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 10 | -1 | BYE |
| 8 | -1 | 4.308 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 7 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 4–6 |
| 9 | 0 | 5.284 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 6–4 | 0.600 | 7 | +2 | Beat Haverford 36–0; Beat LEHIGH 6–4 |
| 10 | 0 | 5.851 | Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT)) | IND FBSI | 3–2–1 | 0.583 | 9 | -4 | Beat Stevens 26–0 |
| 11 | 0 | 9.507 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 2–6 | 0.250 | 13 | -12 | Lost to Lafayette 0–36 |
| 12 | 0 | 10.596 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 3–5 | 0.375 | 11 | +7 | Lost to Yale 4–76 |
| 13 | 2 | 12.732 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 2–5 | 0.286 | 12 | -1 | Beat Harvard "B" 22–0 |
| 14 | -1 | 13.984 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 2–6 | 0.250 | 13 | -12 | Lost to M.i.t. 0–54 |
| 15 | -1 | 15.175 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–4–1 | 0.100 | 15 | -14 | Lost to Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 0–26 |