1886 Week 10 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 | -4.681 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 6–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +7 | Beat Wesleyan 136–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -2.923 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Dartmouth 70–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -2.145 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +12 | BYE |
| 4 | 0 | 1.489 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 5–1 | 0.833 | 4 | +3 | Lost to Pennsylvania 10–20 |
| 5 | 0 | 1.648 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 3–1–1 | 0.700 | 5 | +1 | BYE |
| 6 | 0 | 2.148 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 6–3–1 | 0.650 | 6 | +6 | Beat Wesleyan 14–0; Beat LAFAYETTE 20–10 |
| 7 | 2 | 4.030 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 8 | +1 | Beat Vermont 91–0; Lost to HARVARD 0–70 |
| 8 | 0 | 4.330 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–1–1 | 0.500 | 8 | -3 | Tied Stevens 0–0 |
| 9 | -2 | 5.136 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 3–2 | 0.600 | 7 | -9 | Lost to M.i.t. 0–22 |
| 10 | 1 | 13.627 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 13 | -1 | BYE |
| 11 | 3 | 13.681 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 1–5–1 | 0.214 | 10 | 0 | Beat Amherst 22–0 |
| 12 | -2 | 16.014 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–4 | 0.200 | 11 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 0–14; Lost to YALE 0–136 |
| 13 | -1 | 17.595 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–5–1 | 0.083 | 12 | -1 | Tied Lehigh 0–0 |
| 14 | -1 | 17.667 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–8 | 0.000 | 13 | -6 | Lost to Massachusetts 5–6 |