1886 Week 11 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 | -4.431 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 7–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +9 | Beat Crescent A.c. 84–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -3.365 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 9–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +7 | Beat Exeter 158–0; Beat WESLEYAN 34–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -1.804 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 5–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +21 | Beat Pennsylvania 28–6 |
| 4 | 0 | 1.261 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 6–1 | 0.857 | 4 | +5 | Beat Lehigh 12–0 |
| 5 | 0 | 1.395 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 4–1–1 | 0.750 | 5 | +5 | Beat Amherst 15–2 |
| 6 | 4 | 1.560 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 7 | -1 | Beat Vineland 58–0 |
| 7 | -1 | 2.587 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 7–4–1 | 0.625 | 6 | +7 | Beat Haverford 16–4; Lost to PRINCETON 6–28 |
| 8 | -1 | 3.900 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 2–2 | 0.500 | 7 | +2 | BYE |
| 9 | -1 | 5.765 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 1–2–1 | 0.375 | 10 | -5 | Lost to Lafayette 0–12 |
| 10 | -1 | 5.968 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 3–3 | 0.500 | 7 | -11 | Lost to Williams 2–15 |
| 11 | 0 | 10.659 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 2–5–1 | 0.313 | 11 | 0 | Beat Tufts 26–8 |
| 12 | 0 | 16.167 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–5 | 0.167 | 12 | -1 | Lost to Harvard 0–34 |
| 13 | 1 | 17.671 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–9 | 0.000 | 14 | -13 | Lost to M.i.t. 8–26 |
| 14 | -1 | 17.835 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–5–1 | 0.083 | 13 | -1 | BYE |