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Dartmouth Finishes 23rd in Final FCS Poll
1/11/2016 2:11:00 PM | Football
HANOVER, N.H. — The final STATS Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) poll of the 2015 season was announced this afternoon, and the Dartmouth Big Green earned the 23rd spot for its first national ranking at the end of a season since the 1996 campaign. The only other Ivy League school in the poll was Harvard at No. 20, one of the two teams with which Dartmouth shared the Ivy League title. North Dakota State, which defeated Jacksonville State, 37-10, in the FCS title game on Saturday for its fifth consecutive championship, finished atop the poll.
The Big Green (9-1, 6-1 Ivy) posted their best record since that 1996 championship season, which featured a perfect 10-0 mark. The only blemish on Dartmouth's ledger came in a heartbreaking, 14-13 loss at Harvard on Oct. 30 in the final minute of play. But the Big Green disposed of Penn in the Ivy opener, 41-20, before the Quakers knocked off the Crimson as the three teams all sported a 6-1 record in conference play for just the fourth three-way tie — and first since 1982 — in 60 seasons of Ivy League football.
This is the third end-of-season national ranking for the Big Green football squad since the FCS was formed in 1978, having earned a No. 17 ranking in 1990 by the NCAA and again in 1996 by the Sports Network. The last time two Ivy League teams finished in the top 25 was in 2007 when Harvard and Yale were both listed in the polls by the American Football Coaches Association poll and the Sports Network.
Other years in which two teams were featured in a poll came in 2006 with Princeton (18) and Yale (25), 2004 with Harvard (13) and Penn (21) and 2001 with Harvard (19) and Penn (24) again.
The FCS Coaches' Poll will be added to this announcement once it is released.
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