Arkansas-Pine Bluff·SWAC

2017 — The 2017 Season

Arkansas-Pine Bluff's 2017 season (2-9) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 2-9
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -14.8 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Moreho 23-10 L @ Akron 3-52 L @ Arka Sta 3-48 W @ Jack Sta 34-27 L @ Alab A&M 14-27 L vs Miss Sta 31-38 L vs Cent Sta 35-40 L vs Southern 40-47 L vs Grambl 26-31 L @ Prai A&M 12-35 L vs Texa Sou 10-24
Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Arkansas-Pine Bluff 23, Morehouse 10. A 13-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3, Akron 52. A 49-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Lions"
— Arkansas-Pine Bluff fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 is a middle chapter for Arkansas-Pine Bluff — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.