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Final power ratings for the 1887 season are listed below. Home field advantage for this year was .534 and the root for determining point spreads was 0.977.
The average home field advantage for this year is 2.98 points.
Some game locations are unknown and have been estimated. Research continues.
KEY: PR=Final power rating, PS=Pre-season power rating, SOS=strength of schedule.
| Rank | Team | PR | PS | SOS | PF | PA | Wins | Losses | Ties | Pct | Conference |
| 1 | Yale | .907 | .836 | .411 | 57.22 | 1.33 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | Independent |
| 2 | Harvard | .823 | .424 | .317 | 60.00 | 2.09 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .909 | Independent |
| 3 | Princeton | .766 | .812 | .496 | 46.67 | 2.67 | 7 | 2 | 0 | .778 | Independent |
| 4 | Lafayette | .622 | .431 | .269 | 15.67 | 7.44 | 7 | 2 | 0 | .778 | Independent |
| 5 | M.I.T. | .509 | .207 | .185 | 34.33 | 12.83 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .833 | Independent |
| 6 | Lehigh | .425 | .275 | .327 | 13.71 | 15.14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | .571 | Independent |
| 7 | Wesleyan | .402 | .369 | .408 | 13.78 | 45.44 | 4 | 5 | 0 | .444 | Independent |
| 8 | Dartmouth | .401 | .184 | .094 | 37.80 | 5.60 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .700 | Independent |
| 9 | Williams | .393 | .319 | .395 | 28.67 | 25.00 | 3 | 3 | 0 | .500 | Independent |
| 10 | Pennsylvania | .345 | .477 | .235 | 10.54 | 25.85 | 6 | 7 | 0 | .462 | Independent |
| 11 | Trinity (Connecticut) | .278 | .160 | .108 | 13.43 | 31.43 | 3 | 3 | 1 | .500 | Independent |
| 12 | Amherst | .275 | .205 | .184 | 9.80 | 32.00 | 4 | 6 | 0 | .400 | Independent |
| 13 | Tufts | .242 | .107 | .212 | 8.11 | 32.11 | 3 | 6 | 0 | .333 | Independent |
| 14 | Rutgers | .194 | .192 | .163 | 5.88 | 23.38 | 2 | 6 | 0 | .250 | Independent |
| 15 | Wild Card U | .130 | .160 | .333 | 4.04 | 29.36 | 3 | 21 | 1 | .140 | |
| 16 | Stevens | .050 | .214 | .050 | 2.29 | 15.29 | 0 | 6 | 1 | .071 | Independent |
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