1982 Rhode Island Rams football team

The 1982 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island in the Yankee Conference during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their seventh season under head coach Bob Griffin, the Rams compiled a 7–4 record (2–3 against conference opponents) and finished fifth out of six teams in the conference.^[1]

On September 19, 1980, Rhode Island defeated Maine in a game that took six overtimes to complete and was one of the longest games in college football history.^[2]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 11	at Lafayette*	Fisher Field easton, PA	W 20–10	9,500	[3]
September 18	at Maine	Alumni Field Orono, ME	W 58–55 6OT	6,250	[2]
September 25	at Brown*	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	L 20–24	14,008	[4]
October 2	UMass	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	L 7–17	9,433	[5]
October 9	at Northeastern*	Parsons Field Brookline, MA	W 14–13	1,200	[6]
October 16	Boston University	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	L 16–26	10,230	[7]
October 23	Southern Connecticut*	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	W 41–14	4,611	[8]
October 30	at New Hampshire	Cowell Stadium Durham, NH	W 23–20	6,235	[9]
November 6	Lehigh*	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	W 20–16	7,526	[10]
November 13	at Connecticut	Memorial Stadium Storrs, CT	L 21–26	3,063	[11]
November 20	Springfield*	Meade Stadium Kingston, RI	W 24–0	5,232	[12]
*Non-conference game Homecoming

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