1879 Week 12 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 | 0.596 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Stevens 7–0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0.688 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 1–0–1 | 0.750 | 2 | +1 | Tied Harvard 0–0 |
| 3 | 0 | 1.500 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 7 | 0 | BYE |
| 4 | 1 | 1.994 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 2–0–2 | 0.750 | 2 | 0 | Tied Yale 0–0 |
| 5 | 2 | 3.947 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 4 | 0 | Beat Columbia 1–0 |
| 6 | 0 | 5.900 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–2–1 | 0.167 | 6 | -2 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–1 |
| 7 | -3 | 7.400 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–1–2 | 0.333 | 4 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–7 |