1886 Week 8 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 | -4.473 |  Yale (YALE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +2 | Beat M.i.t. 96–0 |
| 2 | 0 | -2.823 |  Harvard (HARVARD) | IND FBSI | 4–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Stevens 44–0 |
| 3 | 0 | -2.322 |  Princeton (PRINCETON) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | +4 | Beat Stevens 61–6; Beat PENNSYLVANIA 30–0 |
| 4 | 0 | -1.393 |  Williams (WILLIAMS) | IND FBSI | 3–0–1 | 0.875 | 5 | 0 | BYE |
| 5 | 3 | 0.611 |  Lafayette (LAFAYETTE) | IND FBSI | 3–0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | Beat Swarthmore 20–12; Beat RUTGERS 28–2; Beat DICKINSON 24–5 |
| 6 | -1 | 1.183 |  Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA) | IND FBSI | 4–1–1 | 0.750 | 6 | 0 | Beat Pennsylvania Alumni 4–0; Lost to PRINCETON 0–30; Tied PHILADELPHIA ALL-STARS 6–6 |
| 7 | -1 | 6.810 | Amherst (AMHERST) | IND FBSI | 1–1 | 0.500 | 7 | -2 | Beat Tufts 18–4; Lost to WESLEYAN 0–47 |
| 8 | 6 | 9.377 | Wesleyan (WESLEYAN) | IND FBSI | 1–2 | 0.333 | 8 | +1 | Beat Amherst 47–0 |
| 9 | 0 | 10.987 |  Rutgers (RUTGERS) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 10 | 0 | Lost to Lafayette 2–28 |
| 10 | 0 | 12.907 |  Lehigh (LEHIGH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 10 | -1 | BYE |
| 11 | -4 | 13.867 |  Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH) | IND FBSI | 0–1 | 0.000 | 10 | 0 | Lost to Andover 11–18 |
| 12 | 0 | 18.283 |  Tufts (TUFTS) | IND FBSI | 0–5 | 0.000 | 10 | -1 | Lost to Amherst 4–18 |
| 13 | 0 | 19.413 | Stevens (STEVENS) | IND FBSI | 0–3 | 0.000 | 10 | 0 | Lost to Princeton 6–61; Lost to HARVARD 0–44 |
| 14 | -3 | 20.907 |  M.i.t. (M.I.T.) | IND FBSI | 0–3–1 | 0.125 | 9 | 0 | Lost to Yale 0–96 |