American college football season
2019 Princeton Tigers football |
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Conference | Ivy League |
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Record | 8–2 (5–2 Ivy) |
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Head coach | |
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Offensive coordinator | Andrew Aurich (1st season) |
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Defensive coordinator | Steve Verbit |
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Home stadium | Powers Field at Princeton Stadium |
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Uniform |
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Seasons |
2019 Ivy League football standings | Conf | | | Overall |
Team | | W | | L | | | | | W | | L | |
No. 22 Dartmouth + | | 6 | – | 1 | | | | | 9 | – | 1 | |
No. 25 Yale + | | 6 | – | 1 | | | | | 9 | – | 1 | |
Princeton | | 5 | – | 2 | | | | | 8 | – | 2 | |
Penn | | 3 | – | 4 | | | | | 5 | – | 5 | |
Cornell | | 3 | – | 4 | | | | | 4 | – | 6 | |
Harvard | | 2 | – | 5 | | | | | 4 | – | 6 | |
Columbia | | 2 | – | 5 | | | | | 3 | – | 7 | |
Brown | | 1 | – | 6 | | | | | 2 | – | 8 | |
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- + – Conference co-champions
Rankings from STATS Poll |
The 2019 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by tenth-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. Princeton played as a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 8–2 overall and 5–2 in Ivy League play to place third. Princeton averaged 9,605 fans per game.
Preseason
The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Tigers were picked to finish in third place.[1]
Predicted finish | Team | Votes (1st place) |
1 | Yale | 119 (9) |
2 | Dartmouth | 111 (2) |
3 | Princeton | 107 (4) |
4 | Harvard | 93 (1) |
5 | Penn | 67 |
6 | Columbia | 61 (1) |
7 | Cornell | 29 |
8 | Brown | 24 |
Schedule
Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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September 21 | 5:00 p.m. | Butler* | | | ESPN+ | W 49–7 | 10,625 |
September 28 | 3:30 p.m. | at Bucknell* | | | PLN | W 56–23 | 3,795 |
October 5 | 1:00 p.m. | Columbia | No. 25 | - Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
- Princeton, NJ
| ESPN+ | W 21–10 | 5,225 |
October 11 | 7:00 p.m. | Lafayette* | No. 21 | - Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
- Princeton, NJ
| ESPNU | W 28–3 | 4,521 |
October 19 | 12:30 p.m. | at Brown | No. 17 | | ESPN+ | W 65–22 | 4,703 |
October 26 | 1:00 p.m. | Harvard![dagger](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Dagger-14-plain.png) | No. 13 | - Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
- Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
| ESPN+ | W 30–24 | 9,078 |
November 1 | 6:00 p.m. | at Cornell | No. 12 | | ESPNU | W 21–7 | 1,745 |
November 9 | 3:30 p.m. | vs. No. 13 Dartmouth | No. 10 | | ESPNU | L 10–27 | 21,506 |
November 16 | 1:00 p.m. | Yale | No. 18 | - Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
- Princeton, NJ (rivalry)
| ESPN+ | L 14–51 | 6,676 |
November 23 | 1:00 p.m. | at Penn | | | ESPN+ | W 28–7 | 7,898 |
- *Non-conference game
Homecoming- Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game
- All times are in Eastern time
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Game summaries
Butler
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Bulldogs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
Tigers | 14 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 49 |
At Bucknell
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Tigers | 7 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 56 |
Bison | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 23 |
Columbia
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Lions | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
No. 25 Tigers | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
Lafayette
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Leopards | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
No. 21 Tigers | 7 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 28 |
At Brown
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
No. 17 Tigers | 17 | 34 | 7 | 7 | 65 |
Bears | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 22 |
Harvard
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Crimson | 0 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 24 |
No. 13 Tigers | 10 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 30 |
At Cornell
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
No. 12 Tigers | 0 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 21 |
Big Red | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Vs. Dartmouth
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
No. 10 Tigers | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
No. 13 Big Green | 7 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 27 |
Yale
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Bulldogs | 3 | 27 | 7 | 14 | 51 |
No. 18 Tigers | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
At Penn
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
Tigers | 7 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 28 |
Quakers | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Rankings
Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked RV = Received votes | Week |
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Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Final |
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STATS FCS | 24 | RV | RV | RV | RV | 25 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 18 | RV | RV | RV |
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Coaches | 24 | 25 | 25 | 24 | RV | RV | 19 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 19 | RV | RV | — |
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References
- ^ "Yale Named League Favorite in 2019 Football Preseason Poll". ivyleague.com. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
- ^ "2019 Princeton Football Schedule". FBSchedules.com. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
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