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The 1981 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season.In their ninth season under head coach Frank R. Burns, the Scarlet Knights compiled a 5–6 record while competing as an independent and were outscored by their opponents 208 to 139.
Through the 2023 season, the Ivy League has yet to participate in the post-season tournament, despite an automatic bid, citing academic concerns. The total number of teams in Division I-A decreased from 138 to 137 as Villanova dropped their football program following the 1980 season; it returned in 1985 at the I-AA level.
This is a list of seasons completed by the Rutgers Scarlet Knights football program since the team's conception in 1869. The program competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and the Scarlet Knights have participated in over 1,400 officially sanctioned games, including 11 bowl games. [1]
The following list shows NCAA Division I-A football programs by winning percentage during the 1980-1989 football seasons. The following list reflects the records according to the NCAA. This list takes into account results modified later due to NCAA action, such as vacated victories and forfeits.
Two human polls comprised the 1981 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I-A football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship , instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies.
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are the athletic teams that represent Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus.In sports, Rutgers is famously known for being the "Birthplace of College Football", hosting the first ever intercollegiate football game on November 6, 1869, in which Rutgers defeated a team from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) with a score of 6 runs to 4.
Rutgers finished the 2014 season in the Big Ten with a conference record of 3–5, including its first Big Ten Conference win over conference member Michigan, and an overall record of 7–5. Rutgers became bowl-eligible with that record and earned an invitation to play on December 26, 2014, in the 2014 Quick Lane Bowl , where it trounced North ...
Rutgers declares itself the "birthplace of college football" [10] [11] in memory of the November 6, 1869, game between Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and Rutgers, the first college football game ever played. Rutgers won 6–4. [12] However, that game was played using association rules, in contrast to the 1875 game between Harvard ...