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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.
October 31: The No. 1 team lost for the fifth time in eight weeks, as Penn State was upset 17-14 by Miami. No. 2 Pittsburgh won a close one, 29-24, at Boston College. No. 3 Clemson scored 12 touchdowns on 756 yards of offense (including a school-record 536 rushing yards) in an 82-24 rout of Wake Forest.
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.
The 1981 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1981 and concluded with the 1981 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 19, 1981, at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls, Texas.
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.
Rutgers football team in 1882. On November 6, 1869, Rutgers University and Princeton University competed in the first intercollegiate football game. [7] The site for the contest was a small plot of land on what is now College Avenue on Rutgers' campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The FCS is the highest division in college football to hold a playoff tournament sanctioned by the NCAA to determine its champion. Conference affiliations are current for the 2024 season . The list includes all current and former FBS, Division I-A, Division I, University Division, and Major-College football teams since 1946 when the NCAA ...
1985 - Rutgers University at Camden and Rutgers University at Newark joined the NJAC, effective in the 1985-86 academic year. 2000 - The State University of New York at Cortland joined the NJAC as an associate member for football, effective in the 2000 fall season (2000-01 academic year).