1879 Week 13 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 | 1 | 0.550 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0–1 | 0.833 | 2 | +3 | Beat Rutgers 5–0 |
| 2 | -1 | 0.756 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Harvard 1–0 |
| 3 | 1 | 3.052 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 2–1–2 | 0.600 | 3 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–1 |
| 4 | 1 | 3.431 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 4 | 0 | Beat Pennsylvania Military 7–0 |
| 5 | -2 | 3.670 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 4 | 0 | Beat Stevens 1–0; Lost to YALE 0–5 |
| 6 | 0 | 6.350 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–2–1 | 0.167 | 7 | -2 | BYE |
| 7 | 0 | 7.850 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–2–2 | 0.250 | 6 | -1 | Lost to Rutgers 0–1 |