2017 Yale Bulldogs football team 2017 Yale Bulldogs football team The 2017 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season, winning the Ivy League title. The season marked the Bulldogs's 145th overall season. The team played its home games at Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut and were led by sixth-year head coach Tony Reno. They finished the 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. The 2017 season consisted of five
Yale Bulldogs football the attendance qualification. Choosing to stay together rather than stand their ground separately in the increasingly competitive I-A subdivision, the Ivy League moved down into I-AA starting with the 1982 season. Yale has been both an independent and affiliated with the Ivy League. Yale has won 27 national championships from NCAA-designated major selectors. Yale claims each of these championships. Yale has won fifteen conference championships, all in the Ivy League, with eight outright and seven shared. † Co-championship Career records of Yale head coaches. Harvard and Yale have been competing against each other in football since 1875. The annual rivalry