2018 — The 2018 Season

Yale's 2018 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+ -9.8 last-week
Era —
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
L @ Holy Cro 28-31 W @ Cornell 30-24 W vs Maine 35-14 L vs Dartmo 18-41 W vs Mercer 35-28 W @ Pennsy 23-10 L @ Columbia 10-17 W vs Brown 46-16 L vs Prince 43-59 L @ Harvard 27-45
Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: Yale 46, Brown 16. A 30-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: Yale 18, Dartmouth 41. A 23-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bulldogs"
— Yale fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What It Meant

2018 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.