2022 — The Winning Chapter

Yale's 2022 season (8-2) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 8-2
Final Result Bowl season
AP Final — post-bowls
SP+ -6.8 last-week
Era —
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
L @ Holy Cro 14-38 W @ Cornell 38-14 W vs Howard 34-26 W vs Dartmo 24-21 W vs Bucknell 29-9 L @ Pennsy 13-20 W @ Columbia 41-16 W vs Brown 69-17 W vs Prince 24-20 W @ Harvard 19-14
Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2022 season's largest margin: Yale 69, Brown 17. A 52-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: Yale 14, Holy Cross 38. A 24-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bulldogs"
— Yale fanbase voice · 2022· synthesized
What It Meant

2022 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.