1878 Week 14 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 | 0 | 0.682 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | BYE |
| 2 | 0 | 1.386 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +3 | Beat Harvard 1–0 |
| 3 | 0 | 1.600 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 0–0–2 | 0.500 | 3 | 0 | BYE |
| 4 | 0 | 2.380 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 6 | +1 | Lost to Yale 0–1 |
| 5 | 1 | 2.694 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 1–2–1 | 0.375 | 5 | 0 | BYE |
| 6 | -1 | 2.854 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–1–2 | 0.500 | 3 | 0 | BYE |
| 7 | 0 | 4.175 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 7 | -2 | BYE |
| 8 | 0 | 5.680 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–2–1 | 0.167 | 8 | -1 | BYE |
| 9 | 0 | 8.560 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 9 | -3 | BYE |