2017 — The 2017 Season

Harvard's 2017 season (5-5) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 5-5
Final Result Non-bowl season
AP Final — post-bowls
SP+ -11.2 last-week
Era —
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
L @ Rhod Isl 10-17 W vs Brown 45-28 W @ George 41-2 L @ Cornell 14-17 W vs Lafaye 38-10 L vs Prince 17-52 W vs Dartmo 25-22 W @ Columbia 21-14 L vs Pennsy 6-23 L @ Yale 3-24
Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Harvard 41, Georgetown 2. A 39-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: Harvard 17, Princeton 52. A 35-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Crimson"
— Harvard fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What It Meant

2017 is a middle chapter for Harvard — 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.