1886 Week 7 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 | 12 | -4.143 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 2–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Wesleyan 75–0; Beat WESLEYAN 62–0 |
| 2 | -1 | -3.569 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat M.i.t. 54–0; Beat TUFTS 46–0 |
| 3 | 6 | -3.373 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 1–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Stevens 58–0 |
| 4 | -2 | -1.833 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 3–0–1 | 0.875 | 5 | 0 | Beat Tufts 33–4; Beat M.I.T. 21–0 |
| 5 | -2 | -0.782 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Lehigh 26–4 |
| 6 | -2 | 1.333 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 11 | 0 | BYE |
| 7 | -2 | 1.333 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 11 | 0 | BYE |
| 8 | -2 | 1.333 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 11 | 0 | BYE |
| 9 | 1 | 1.333 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–0 | 0.000 | 11 | 0 | BYE |
| 10 | -3 | 8.987 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 7 | 0 | Lost to Pennsylvania 4–26 |
| 11 | -3 | 13.947 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–2–1 | 0.167 | 6 | 0 | Lost to Harvard 0–54; Lost to WILLIAMS 0–21 |
| 12 | 2 | 19.387 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–4 | 0.000 | 7 | 0 | Lost to Williams 4–33; Lost to HARVARD 0–46 |
| 13 | -2 | 20.507 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 7 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 0–58 |
| 14 | -2 | 23.867 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 0–2 | 0.000 | 7 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–75; Lost to YALE 0–62 |