1880 Final College Football Team Rankings
1880 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 | 0.367 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 4–0–1 | 0.900 | 1 | +6 | Tied Princeton 0–0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0.611 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 4–0–1 | 0.900 | 1 | +8 | Tied Yale 0–0 |
| 3 | 0 | 2.676 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 3 | +2 | BYE |
| 4 | 0 | 2.938 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 2–2–2 | 0.500 | 4 | +1 | BYE |
| 5 | 0 | 4.156 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 4 | 0 | BYE |
| 6 | 0 | 5.195 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 6 | 0 | BYE |
| 7 | 0 | 6.849 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 1–5 | 0.167 | 7 | -8 | BYE |
| 8 | 0 | 8.311 |  Brown (BROWN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 8 | 0 | BYE |