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Top 25 College Football Games of the 1860s

Every completed game in the decade, scored without team allegiance by game-time AP poll strength, final-score closeness, and overtime.

Games
2
Top score
33/100
Overtime
0

National ranking

The decade's top 2

0 of these games include at least one AP-ranked team at kickoff. Open a supported game for its box score and statistics.

  1. 1869Week 1

    Princeton at Rutgers

    Princeton 4, Rutgers 6

    Unranked Princeton vs. Unranked Rutgers · 2-point margin

    Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 33/35 · Overtime 0/15

    33

    Game score

  2. 1869Week 2

    Rutgers at Princeton

    Rutgers 0, Princeton 8

    Unranked Rutgers vs. Unranked Princeton · 8-point margin

    Ranking 0/50 · Closeness 27/35 · Overtime 0/15

    27

    Game score

Methodology

How each game earns up to 100 points

AP ranking, 50 points: each team earns 26 minus its game-time AP rank. Unranked teams receive zero.

Closeness, 35 points: the final margin is subtracted from 35, with margins of 35 or more receiving zero.

Overtime, 15 points: overtime starts at nine points and rises by two per additional period, capped at 15.

Regular-season rankings use the AP Top 25 recorded for the game's week. Postseason games use the final regular-season AP poll published before bowl and playoff results. Overtime uses period scoring when available, then explicit overtime notes as a fallback. Older decades may have less complete poll, period, and box-score data.