1886 Week 13 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 | -4.229 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 9–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +33 | Beat Harvard 29–4 |
| 2 | 0 | -3.016 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 11–2 | 0.846 | 3 | +10 | Beat M.i.t. 62–0; Lost to YALE 4–29 |
| 3 | 0 | -1.812 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +40 | Beat Wesleyan 76–6 |
| 4 | 0 | 1.224 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 5–1–1 | 0.786 | 5 | +8 | BYE |
| 5 | 1 | 1.433 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 9–2 | 0.818 | 4 | +3 | Beat Rutgers 26–10; Beat STEVENS 58–0 |
| 6 | 1 | 2.305 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 4–2–1 | 0.643 | 6 | +1 | Beat Pennsylvania 28–0; Beat HAVERFORD 18–4 |
| 7 | -2 | 2.413 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 9–6–1 | 0.594 | 7 | +12 | Lost to Lehigh 0–28 |
| 8 | 0 | 4.128 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 8 | 0 | BYE |
| 9 | 0 | 6.339 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 3–4 | 0.429 | 9 | -14 | BYE |
| 10 | 0 | 8.727 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–3 | 0.250 | 11 | -10 | Lost to Lafayette 10–26 |
| 11 | 0 | 12.218 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 2–6–1 | 0.278 | 10 | -6 | Lost to Harvard 0–62 |
| 12 | 0 | 13.231 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 2–6 | 0.250 | 11 | +4 | Lost to Princeton 6–76 |
| 13 | 1 | 18.027 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–9 | 0.000 | 14 | -20 | BYE |
| 14 | -1 | 18.164 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–7–1 | 0.063 | 13 | -8 | Lost to Lafayette 0–58 |