1885 Week 8 College Football Team Rankings
1885 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 | -10.313 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Stevens 76–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -5.737 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 4 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–18 |
| 3 | 0 | -3.781 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +1 | Beat Wesleyan 18–0 |
| 4 | 0 | -3.472 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Swarthmore 68–6; Beat PENNSYLVANIA ALUMNI 6–5 |
| 5 | 0 | 1.500 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 7 | 0 | BYE |
| 6 | 0 | 28.400 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 5 | 0 | Lost to Haverford 8–24 |
| 7 | 0 | 48.200 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 5 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–76 |