Brown·Ivy

2014 — The 2014 Season

Brown's 2014 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 No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -10.7 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ George 3-17 L vs Harvard 14-22 W @ Rhod Isl 20-13 W vs Holy Cro 27-24 L @ Prince 16-27 W vs Cornell 42-16 W @ Pennsy 21-13 L vs Yale 42-45 L @ Dartmo 21-44 W vs Columbia 41-7
Defining moments
The statement

The 2014 season's largest margin: Brown 41, Columbia 7. A 34-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Brown 21, Dartmouth 44. A 23-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bears"
— Brown fanbase voice · 2014· synthesized
What it meant

2014 is a middle chapter for Brown — 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.