2021 — The 2021 Season

Yale's 2021 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+ -9.3 last-week
Era —
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
L vs Holy Cro 17-20 W vs Cornell 23-17 W @ Lehigh 34-0 L @ Dartmo 17-24 L @ UConn 15-21 W vs Pennsy 42-28 W vs Columbia 37-30 W @ Brown 63-38 L @ Prince 20-35 L vs Harvard 31-34
Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2021 season's largest margin: Yale 34, Lehigh 0. A 34-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: Yale 20, Princeton 35. A 15-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bulldogs"
— Yale fanbase voice · 2021· synthesized
What It Meant

2021 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.