1884 Final College Football Team Rankings
1884 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 | -5.129 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 8–0–1 | 0.944 | 2 | +23 | Tied Princeton 0–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -3.483 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 9–0–1 | 0.950 | 1 | +31 | Tied Yale 0–0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0.610 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 5–1–1 | 0.786 | 3 | +16 | Beat Wesleyan 14–12 |
| 4 | 0 | 0.767 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 7–4 | 0.636 | 4 | -6 | BYE |
| 5 | 0 | 5.876 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 3–4 | 0.429 | 6 | -3 | BYE |
| 6 | 1 | 7.293 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 4–5 | 0.444 | 5 | -2 | Beat Lafayette 52–0 |
| 7 | -1 | 7.392 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 3–5 | 0.375 | 7 | +13 | Lost to Pennsylvania 12–14 |
| 8 | 0 | 14.601 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 2–5 | 0.286 | 8 | -15 | Lost to Stevens 0–52 |
| 9 | 0 | 30.520 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 0–4 | 0.000 | 9 | -14 | BYE |