2017 Case Western Reserve Spartans football team

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2017 Case Western Reserve Spartans football
PAC Champion
ConferencePresidents' Athletic Conference
Ranking
D3Football.comNo. 13[1]
2017 record11–1 (8–0 PAC)
Head coach
Home stadiumDiSanto Field
Seasons
← 2016
2018 →
2017 Presidents' Athletic Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
No. 13 Case Western Reserve +^   8 – 0     11 – 1  
No. 16 Washington & Jefferson +^   8 – 0     11 – 1  
Westminster (PA)   6 – 2     7 – 3  
Carnegie Mellon   5 – 3     7 – 4  
Thomas More   5 – 3     6 – 4  
Grove City   4 – 4     4 – 6  
Geneva   2 – 6     3 – 7  
Bethany (WV)   2 – 6     2 – 8  
Waynesburg   2 – 6     2 – 8  
Saint Vincent   1 – 7     2 – 8  
Thiel   1 – 7     1 – 9  
  • + – Conference co-champions
  • ^ – NCAA Division III playoff participant
Rankings from D3football.com

The 2017 Case Western Reserve Spartans football team represented Case Western Reserve University of Cleveland, Ohio, during the 2017 NCAA Division III football season.[2] The team was coached by 14th-year head coach Greg Debeljak and played its home games at DiSanto Field.[3] The Spartans won both the PAC at 8-0 and the UAA at 2-0, finishing the regular season an undefeated 10-0.

In round 1 of the NCAA Division III playoffs, the Spartans shut out the Illinois Wesleyan Titans 28-0 in a game seeing heavy snow.[4] In round 2, the team was defeated by the eventual NCAA Division III football national champion, Mount Union Purple Raiders.

Schedule[]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendance
September 21:00 pmat Chicago*
W 34–141,085[5]
September 167:00 pmGrove City
W 42–102,238[6]
September 237:00 pmWaynesburg
  • DiSanto Field
  • Cleveland, OH
W 59–211,727[7]
September 301:00 pmat St. Vincent
  • Chuck Noll Stadium
  • Latrobe, PA
W 35–142,476[8]
October 71:00 pmBethany (WV)dagger
  • DiSanto Field
  • Cleveland, OH
W 33–31,738[9]
October 143:00 pmat Thiel
  • Alumni Stadium
  • Greenville, PA
W 63–281,276[10]
October 217:00 pmat Geneva
W 45–73,427[11]
October 2812:00 pmWashington U.*
  • DiSanto Field
  • Cleveland, OH
W 45–281,342[12]
November 41:00 pmWestminster (PA)
  • DiSanto Field
  • Cleveland, OH
W 41–101,716[13]
November 112:00 pmat Carnegie Mellon (Academic Bowl)
  • Gesling Stadium
  • Pittsburgh, PA
W 41–343,441[14]
November 181:00 pmat No. 11 Illinois Wesleyan*
  • Tucci Stadium
  • Bloomington, IL
    (NCAA Playoffs First Round)
W 28–0500[15]
November 2512:00 pmat No. 2 Mount Union*
L 16–451,763[16]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming
  • Rankings from D3Football.com Poll released prior to game
  • All times are in

[17]

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.d3football.com/top25/2017/final
  2. ^ http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/schedule
  3. ^ http://www.d3football.com/teams/Case_Western_Reserve/2017/index
  4. ^ http://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/index.ssf/2017/11/case_western_reserve_blanks_il.html
  5. ^ http://athletics.uchicago.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/boxscores/20170902_mb22.xml
  6. ^ http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/boxscores/20170916_7qrv.xml
  7. ^ http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/boxscores/20170923_k53l.xml
  8. ^ http://athletics.stvincent.edu/news/2017/9/30/football-nationally-ranked-case-western-defeats-svc-on-homecoming-day.aspx?path=football
  9. ^ http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/boxscores/20171007_mnh7.xml
  10. ^ http://www.thielathletics.com/news/2017/10/14/football-no-16-spartans-too-much-for-tomcats.aspx?path=football
  11. ^ http://athletics.geneva.edu/news/2017/10/21/casewestern.aspx
  12. ^ http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/releases/20171028of2wer
  13. ^ http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/releases/20171104p58sl6
  14. ^ http://athletics.case.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/boxscores/20171111_agfj.xml
  15. ^ http://www.iwusports.com/news/2017/11/18/illinois-wesleyan-football-loses-in-ncaa-playoffs-28-0-to-case-western.aspx?path=football
  16. ^ http://athletics.mountunion.edu/sports/fball/2017-18/releases/20171125lxlg7w
  17. ^ "2017 CWRU Football Schedule". Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
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