The 1888 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.

[1] October 18 saw the first intercollegiate game in the state of North Carolina when Wake Forest defeated North Carolina 6–4.

[2] The first "scientific game" occurred on Thanksgiving of the same year when North Carolina played Duke (then Trinity).

[3] The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings: This college football 1880s season article is a stub.

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