Sports season
The Columbia Lions defeated Cornell Big Red 24–21 at Wien Stadium , November 17 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.
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
Date Time Visiting team Home team Site TV Result Attendance Ref. 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 .
Date Time Visiting team Home team Site TV Result Attendance Ref. 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 .
Date Time Visiting team Home team Site TV Result Attendance Ref. 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 .
Date Time Visiting team Home team Site TV Result Attendance Ref. 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 .
Date Time Visiting team Home team Site TV Result Attendance Ref. 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 .
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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