2016 — The 2016 Season

Yale's 2016 season (3-7) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 3-7
Final Result Non-bowl season
AP Final — post-bowls
SP+ -12.5 last-week
Era —
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
L vs Colgate 13-55 L @ Cornell 13-27 L vs Lehigh 35-63 W vs Dartmo 21-13 L @ Fordham 37-44 L vs Pennsy 7-42 W @ Columbia 31-23 L @ Brown 22-27 L vs Prince 3-31 W @ Harvard 21-14
Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2016 season's largest margin: Yale 21, Dartmouth 13. A 8-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: Yale 13, Colgate 55. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bulldogs"
— Yale fanbase voice · 2016· synthesized
What It Meant

2016 is a middle chapter for Yale — 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.