1881 Week 10 College Football Team Rankings
1881 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 | 0.433 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Pennsylvania 7–0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0.800 |  Columbia (COLUMBIA) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Stevens 3–1 |
| 3 | 4 | 0.800 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Amherst 2–0 |
| 4 | 4 | 1.575 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Michigan 1–0 |
| 5 | -1 | 1.636 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 10 | 0 | BYE |
| 6 | -1 | 2.764 |  Michigan (MICHIGAN) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 5 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–1 |
| 7 | -5 | 3.200 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 5 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–2 |
| 8 | 1 | 3.636 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 5 | 0 | BYE |
| 9 | 1 | 4.291 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 5 | 0 | Lost to Columbia 1–3 |
| 10 | -4 | 5.382 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 5 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–7 |