1886 Week 9 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 | -3.945 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +5 | Beat Stevens 54–0; Beat WILLIAMS 76–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -2.823 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat M.i.t. 59–0; Beat ANDOVER 86–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -2.145 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +8 | Beat Pennsylvania 55–9 |
| 4 | 1 | 0.704 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Pennsylvania 12–0; Beat STEVENS 5–0 |
| 5 | -1 | 1.534 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 3–1–1 | 0.700 | 6 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–76 |
| 6 | 0 | 2.884 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 4–3–1 | 0.563 | 7 | +1 | Lost to Lafayette 0–12; Lost to PRINCETON 9–55 |
| 7 | 0 | 3.310 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 3–1 | 0.750 | 5 | -2 | Beat Tufts 22–4; Beat MASSACHUSETTS 13–0 |
| 8 | 2 | 4.510 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 8 | -3 | Beat Dickinson 26–0 |
| 9 | 2 | 5.673 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 8 | 0 | Beat M.i.t. 11–6 |
| 10 | -2 | 9.426 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 10 | +3 | BYE |
| 11 | -2 | 11.467 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 12 | 0 | BYE |
| 12 | 1 | 16.971 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–5 | 0.000 | 12 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–54; Lost to LAFAYETTE 0–5 |
| 13 | -1 | 17.775 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–7 | 0.000 | 12 | -4 | Lost to Amherst 4–22; Lost to EXETER 8–18 |
| 14 | 0 | 19.595 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–5–1 | 0.083 | 11 | -2 | Lost to Harvard 0–59; Lost to DARTMOUTH 6–11 |