2018 Ivy League football season

The 2018 Ivy League football season was the 63rd season of college football play for the Ivy League and was part of the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season began on September 14, 2018, and ended on November 17, 2018. Ivy League teams were 18–6 against non-conference opponents and Princeton won the conference championship, compiling a perfect 10–0 record.

2018 Ivy League football season
League	NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision
Sport	Football
Duration	September 14, 2018 – November 17, 2018
Number of teams	8
TV partner(s)	ESPNU
Regular season
Champions	Princeton
Football seasons
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2018 Ivy League football standings
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 11 Princeton $		7	–	0					10	–	0
No. 18 Dartmouth		6	–	1					9	–	1
Harvard		4	–	3					6	–	4
Yale		3	–	4					5	–	5
Penn		3	–	4					6	–	4
Columbia		3	–	4					6	–	4
Cornell		2	–	5					3	–	7
Brown		0	–	7					1	–	9
$ – Conference champion Rankings from STATS Poll

The Columbia Lions defeated Cornell Big Red 24–21 at Wien Stadium, November 17

Season overview

Preseason polling

The preseason media poll results became public on August 20, 2018, with Yale predicted to win the Ivy League. Yale won 11 of 17 first place votes in the poll.^[1]

Predicted finish	Team	Points
1	Yale	129
2	Princeton	104
3	Harvard	99
T–4	Columbia	76
T–4	Penn	76
6	Dartmouth	65
7	Cornell	37
8	Brown	26

Final standings

Conf. Rank	Team	Head coach	STATS final	STATS high	Overall record	Conf. record	PPG	PAG
1	Princeton^[2]	Bob Surace	TBA	10	10–0	7–0	47.0	13.0
2	Dartmouth^[3]	Buddy Teevens	TBA	18	9–1	6–1	33.4	12.0
3	Harvard^[4]	Tim Murphy	NR	NR	6–4	4–3	30.4	21.8
4	Yale^[5]	Tony Reno	NR	NR	5–5	3–4	29.5	28.5
5 (tie)	Penn^[6]	Ray Priore	NR	NR	6–4	3–4	18.6	20.9
5 (tie)	Columbia^[7]	Al Bagnoli	NR	NR	6–4	3–4	23.1	25.2
7	Cornell^[8]	David Archer	NR	NR	3–7	2–5	19.1	29.7
8	Brown^[9]	Phil Estes	NR	NR	1–9	0–7	14.3	36.2

Schedule

Week 1

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 14	10:00 p.m.	Brown	Cal Poly	Alex G. Spanos Stadium • San Luis Obispo, CA		L 15–44	7,725
September 15	12:00 p.m.	San Diego	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA		W 36–14	8,709
September 15	1:00 p.m.	Yale	Holy Cross	Fitton Field • Worcester, MA		L 28–31 ^OT	7,397
September 15	1:30 p.m.	Georgetown	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH		W 41–0	4,815
September 15	3:00 p.m.	Bucknell	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA		W 34–17	5,033
September 15	3:30 p.m.	Cornell	Delaware	Delaware Stadium • Newark, DE		L 10–27	14,511
September 15	5:00 p.m.	Columbia	Central Connecticut State	Arute Field • New Britain, CT		W 41–24	3,789
September 15	6:00 p.m.	Princeton	Butler	Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl • Indianapolis, IN		W 50–7	4,527
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 2

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 21	7:00 p.m.	Harvard	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI	ESPNU	HAR 36–14	9,309
September 22	1:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Holy Cross	Fitton Field • Worcester, MA		W 34–14	7,175
September 22	2:00 p.m.	Columbia	Georgetown	Cooper Field • Washington, DC (Lou Little Cup)		W 23–15	1,865
September 22	3:00 p.m.	Yale	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY		YALE 30–24	12,801
September 22	3:00 p.m.	Lehigh	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA		W 30–10	4,445
September 22	4:30 p.m.	Monmouth	Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ		W 51–9	11,068
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 3

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 28	6:00 p.m.	Princeton	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY	ESPNU	PRIN 45–10	5,327
September 28	7:00 p.m.	No. 22 Rhode Island	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA		L 16–23	9,123
September 29	1:00 p.m.	Georgetown	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI		W 35–7	3,926
September 29	1:00 p.m.	No. 16 Maine	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT		W 35–14	7,889
September 29	1:30 p.m.	Sacred Heart	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY		W 43–24	3,620
September 29	1:30 p.m.	Penn	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH		DART 37–14	3,692
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 4

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
October 5	6:00 p.m.	Dartmouth	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT	ESPNU	DART 41–18	10,176
October 6	1:00 p.m.	Brown	No. 18 Rhode Island	Meade Stadium • Kingston, RI (Rivalry)		L 0–48	6,141
October 6	1:00 p.m.	Marist	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY		W 34–24	3,296
October 6	1:00 p.m.	Lehigh	Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ		W 66–7	1,013
October 6	1:30 p.m.	Harvard	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY		COR 28–24	8,040
October 6	3:00 p.m.	Penn	Sacred Heart	Campus Field • Fairfield, CT		W 31–27	4,503
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 5

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
October 12	7:00 p.m.	Holy Cross	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA		W 33–31	10,056
October 13	12:00 p.m.	Cornell	Colgate	Andy Kerr Stadium • Hamilton, NY (Rivalry)		L 0–31	3,112
October 13	1:00 p.m.	Brown	No. 25 Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ		PRIN 48–10	7,320
October 13	1:00 p.m.	Columbia	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA		PENN 13–10	6,011
October 13	1:00 p.m.	Mercer	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT		W 35–28	2,861
October 13	6:00 p.m.	Sacred Heart	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH		W 42–0	3,138
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 6

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
October 19	7:00 p.m.	Yale	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA	ESPNU	YALE 23–10	10,126
October 20	12:00 p.m.	No. 23 Princeton	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA (Rivalry)		PRIN 29–21	10,876
October 20	1:00 p.m.	Cornell	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI		COR 34–16	3,886
October 20†	1:30 p.m.	Dartmouth	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY		DART 28–12	12,506
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 7

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
October 27	1:00 p.m.	Penn	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI		PENN 13–7	1,324
October 27	1:00 p.m.	Yale	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY		COL 17–10	2,555
October 27	1:00 p.m.	Cornell	No. 19 Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ		PRIN 66–0	4,200
October 27†	1:30 p.m.	Harvard	Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH (Rivalry)		DART 24–17	5,814
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 8

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
November 2	6:00 p.m.	Penn	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY (Trustees' Cup)	ESPNU	PENN 20–7	1,056
November 3	12:00 p.m.	Columbia	Harvard	Harvard Stadium • Boston, MA		HAR 52–18	10,447
November 3	1:00 p.m.	Brown	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT		YALE 46–16	4,478
November 3	1:00 p.m.	No. 24 Dartmouth	No. 18 Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ	NBCS BOS	PRIN 14–9	8,014
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 9

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
November 10	12:00 p.m.	Columbia	Brown	Brown Stadium • Providence, RI		COL 42–20	2,118
November 10	12:30 p.m.	No. 13 Princeton	Yale	Yale Bowl • New Haven, CT (Rivalry)		PRIN 59–43	12,882
November 10	1:00 p.m.	Harvard	Penn	Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA		HAR 29–7	13,224
November 10	1:30 p.m.	No. 25 Dartmouth	Cornell	Schoellkopf Field • Ithaca, NY (Rivalry)		DART 35–24	3,604
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Week 10

Date	Time	Visiting team	Home team	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
November 17	12:00 p.m.	Yale	Harvard	Fenway Park • Boston, MA (135th edition of The Game)		HAR 45–27	34,675
November 17	1:00 p.m.	Cornell	Columbia	Wien Stadium • New York City, NY (Empire State Bowl)		COL 24–21	4,651
November 17	1:00 p.m.	Penn	No. 11 Princeton	Princeton Stadium • Princeton, NJ (Rivalry)		PRIN 42–14	7,756
November 17	1:30 p.m.	Brown	No. 20 Dartmouth	Memorial Field • Hanover, NH		DART 49–7	2,575
^#Rankings from STATS Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Attendance

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Total	Average	% of Capacity
Brown	Brown Stadium	20,000	9,309†	3,926	3,886	1,324	2,118	20,563	4,113	20.6%
Columbia	Wien Stadium	17,000	5,327	3,296	12,506†	2,555	4,651	28,335	5,667	33.3%
Cornell	Schoellkopf Field	25,597	12,801†	3,620	8,040	1,056	3,604	29,121	5,824	22.8%
Dartmouth	Memorial Field	11,000	4,815	3,692	3,138	5,814†	2,575	20,034	4,007	36.4%
Harvard	Harvard Stadium	30,323	8,709	9,123	10,056	10,876†	10,447	49,211	9,842	32.5%
Penn	Franklin Field	52,958	5,033	4,445	6,011	10,126	13,224†	38,839	7,768	14.7%
Princeton	Princeton Stadium	27,773	11,068†	1,013	7,320	4,200	8,014	31,615	6,323	22.8%
Yale	Yale Bowl	61,446	7,889	10,176	2,861	4,478	12,882†	38,286	7,657	12.5%
Total	—	246,097	64,951	39,291	53,818	40,429	57,515	256,004	51,201	20.8%

†Season High

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