Brown·Ivy

2017 — The 2017 Season

Brown's 2017 season (2-8) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 2-8
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -15.4 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Bryant 28-23 L @ Harvard 28-45 W vs Rhod Isl 24-21 L @ Stetson 13-17 L vs Prince 0-53 L @ Cornell 7-34 L vs Pennsy 7-17 L @ Yale 7-34 L vs Dartmo 10-33 L @ Columbia 6-24
Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Brown 28, Bryant 23. A 5-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Brown 0, Princeton 53. A 53-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bears"
— Brown fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 is a middle chapter for Brown — 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.