1886 Week 12 College Football Team Rankings
1886 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 | -4.528 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 8–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +22 | Beat Pennsylvania 75–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -3.081 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 10–1 | 0.909 | 3 | +8 | Beat Harvard Alumni 38–0; Lost to PRINCETON 0–12 |
| 3 | 0 | -1.577 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +37 | Beat Harvard 12–0 |
| 4 | 1 | 1.257 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 5–1–1 | 0.786 | 4 | +8 | Beat Amherst 11–0 |
| 5 | 2 | 1.893 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 9–5–1 | 0.633 | 6 | +10 | Beat Rutgers 65–0; Lost to YALE 0–75; Beat VINELAND 96–6 |
| 6 | -2 | 2.127 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 7–2 | 0.778 | 5 | +2 | Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 12–0; Lost to WESLEYAN 0–26 |
| 7 | 2 | 3.990 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 2–2–1 | 0.500 | 7 | -7 | Beat Stevens 14–0 |
| 8 | 0 | 4.080 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 7 | +1 | BYE |
| 9 | 1 | 6.452 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 3–4 | 0.429 | 9 | -12 | Lost to Williams 0–11 |
| 10 | -4 | 7.963 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 10 | -7 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–65 |
| 11 | 0 | 10.984 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 2–5–1 | 0.313 | 11 | -2 | BYE |
| 12 | 0 | 11.960 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 2–5 | 0.286 | 12 | +4 | Beat Lafayette 26–0 |
| 13 | 1 | 17.173 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–6–1 | 0.071 | 13 | -5 | Lost to Lehigh 0–14 |
| 14 | -1 | 18.098 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–9 | 0.000 | 14 | -17 | BYE |