1879 Regular Season Final College Football Team Rankings
1879 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 | 0 | 0.756 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 4–0–1 | 0.900 | 1 | +5 | BYE |
| 2 | 0 | 1.008 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 3–0–2 | 0.800 | 2 | +3 | BYE |
| 3 | 0 | 3.052 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 2–1–2 | 0.600 | 3 | 0 | BYE |
| 4 | 0 | 3.586 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 4 | 0 | BYE |
| 5 | 0 | 5.081 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–2–2 | 0.400 | 6 | -1 | BYE |
| 6 | 0 | 5.093 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–2–4 | 0.429 | 5 | -1 | Tied Stevens Alumni 0–0 |
| 7 | 0 | 6.300 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–3–2 | 0.200 | 7 | -2 | BYE |