2018 Yale Bulldogs football team

2018 Yale Bulldogs football
Conference Ivy League
2018 record 2–2 (1–1 Ivy)
Head coach Tony Reno (7th season)
Offensive coordinator Kevin Cahill
Defensive coordinator Sean McGowan
Home stadium Yale Bowl
(Capacity: 61,446)
2018 Ivy League football standings
Conf  Overall
Team W L    W L 
Dartmouth  2 –0     4 –0  
No. 25 Princeton  1 –0     4 –0  
Yale  1 –1     2 –2  
Cornell  1 –1     2 –2  
Harvard  1 –1     2 –2  
Penn  0 –1     3 –1  
Columbia  0 –1     3 –1  
Brown  0 –1     1 –3  
  • The Ivy League does not participate in the FCS Playoffs
Rankings from STATS FCS Poll

The 2018 Yale Bulldogs football team represents Yale University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season marks the Bulldogs's 146th overall season. The team plays its home games at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut and are led by seventh-year head coach Tony Reno.

Previous season

The Bulldogs finished the 2017 season 9–1, 6–1 in Ivy League play to become Ivy League champions for the first time since 2006 (when they shared the title) and to earn their first sole league title since 1980.

Preseason

Award watch lists

Award Player Position Year
Walter Payton Award[1] Zane Dudek RB SO

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendance
September 151:00 p.m.at Holy Cross*
L 28–31 OT7,397
September 223:00 p.m.at Cornell
W 30–2412,801
September 291:00 p.m.No. 16 Maine*
ESPN+W 35–147,889
October 56:00 p.m.Dartmouth
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
ESPNUL 18–4110,176
October 131:00 p.m.Mercer*
  • Yale Bowl
  • New Haven, CT
ESPN+W 35–282,861
October 197:00 p.m.at Penn
ESPNU
October 271:00 p.m.at Columbia
ESPN+
November 31:00 p.m.Brown
ESPN+
November 1012:30 p.m.Princeton
ESPN+
November 1712:00 p.m.vs. Harvard
ESPN Networks

[2]

Game summaries

at Holy Cross

1 2 3 4OT Total
Bulldogs 21 7 0 00 28
Crusaders 14 0 0 143 31
Overall record Last meeting Result
27–4 October 14, 2017 W, 32–0

at Cornell

1 2 3 4 Total
Bulldogs 14 3 6 7 30
Big Red 14 0 0 10 24
Overall record Last meeting Result
47–30–2 September 23, 2017 W, 49–24

Maine

1 2 3 4 Total
No. 16 Black Bears 0 0 7 7 14
Bulldogs 7 7 14 7 35
Overall record Last meeting Result
8–0–1 October 17, 2015 W, 49–24

Dartmouth

1 2 3 4 Total
Big Green 13 14 7 7 41
Bulldogs 7 3 0 8 18
Overall record Last meeting Result
51–41–6 October 7, 2017 L, 27–28

Mercer

1 2 3 4 Total
Bears 0
Bulldogs 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
First meeting

at Penn

1 2 3 4 Total
Bulldogs 0
Quakers 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
47–37–1 October 21, 2017 W, 24–19

at Columbia

1 2 3 4 Total
Bulldogs 0
Lions 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
73–30–2 October 28, 2017 W, 23–6

Brown

1 2 3 4 Total
Bears 0
Bulldogs 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
82–34–5 November 3, 2017 W, 34–7

Princeton

1 2 3 4 Total
Tigers 0
Bulldogs 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
77–52–10 November 11, 2017 W, 35–31

vs. Harvard

1 2 3 4 Total
Bulldogs 0
Crimson 0
Overall record Last meeting Result
67–58–8 November 18, 2017 W, 24–3

Ranking movements

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
Week
Poll Pre 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Final 
STATS FCS RV RV RV RV RV RV NR  
Coaches RV RV RV NR NR RV NR

References

  1. ↑ "FCS football: 2018 Walter Payton Award watch list". August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-footbl/2018-19/schedule
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