1878 Week 11 College Football Team Rankings
1878 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 | 5 | 0.440 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Amherst 2–0 |
| 2 | -1 | 0.550 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Rutgers 5–0 |
| 3 | 0 | 1.400 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 8 | 0 | BYE |
| 4 | 0 | 1.400 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 8 | 0 | BYE |
| 5 | -3 | 2.089 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 3 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–2 |
| 6 | 2 | 2.336 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 3 | 0 | Beat Swarthmore 9–0 |
| 7 | 2 | 4.480 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–1–1 | 0.250 | 5 | 0 | Tied Rutgers 0–0 |
| 8 | -1 | 4.960 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 7 | -1 | BYE |
| 9 | -4 | 4.960 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1–1 | 0.250 | 5 | 0 | Tied Stevens 0–0; Lost to PRINCETON 0–5 |