2000 Dartmouth Big Green football team

The 2000 Dartmouth Big Green football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Big Green tied for second-to-last in the Ivy League.

In its ninth season under head coach John Lyons, the team compiled a 2–8 record and was outscored 388 to 231. Peter Chapman and Richard Joyce were the team captains.^[1]

The Big Green's 1–6 conference record tied for worst in the Ivy League standings, though both they and Columbia are considered to have tied for sixth, as 4–3 Brown was excluded from the championship and recorded as finishing last. Dartmouth was outscored 290 to 155 by Ivy opponents.^[2]

Dartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 16	Colgate*	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 24–42	4,916	[3]
September 23	at No. 25 New Hampshire*	Cowell Stadium Durham, NH (rivalry)	L 21–42	5,157	[4]
September 30	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 14–48	6,545	[5]
October 7	Yale	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 14–24	7,107	[6]
October 14	Holy Cross*	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	W 31–14	5,014	[7]
October 21	at Columbia	Wien Stadium New York, NY	L 21–49	9,289	[8]
October 28	Harvard	Memorial Field Hanover, NH (rivalry)	L 7–49	8,028	[9]
November 4	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 31–49	4,518	[10]
November 11	Brown	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 26–34		[1]
November 18	at Princeton	Princeton Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 42–37	18,667	[11]
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from The Sports Network Poll released prior to the game