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Final Billingsley Rankings

*All Billingsley Reports are generated post-bowl games

1888
Season
Date RB Team
Jan. 2nd 1 Yale
Jan. 2nd 2 Princeton
Jan. 2nd 3 Harvard
Jan. 2nd 4 Notre Dame
Jan. 2nd 5 Michigan
Jan. 2nd 6 Duke
Jan. 2nd 7 Wake Forest
Jan. 2nd 8 North Carolina
Jan. 2nd 9 Southern Cal
Jan. 2nd 10 Indiana
Jan. 2nd 11 California
Jan. 2nd 12 Pennsylvania
Jan. 2nd 13 Minnesota
Jan. 2nd 14 Virginia
Jan. 2nd 15 Northwestern
Jan. 2nd 16 Cornell
Jan. 2nd 17 Penn State
Jan. 2nd 18 Dartmouth
Jan. 2nd 19 Navy
Jan. 2nd 20 Rutgers
Jan. 2nd 0 Purdue
Jan. 2nd 0 Kentucky
Jan. 2nd 0 Columbia
Jan. 2nd 0 Brown

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