Brown·Ivy

2016 — The 2016 Season

Brown's 2016 season (4-6) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 4-6
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -13.3 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W @ Bryant 35-27 L vs Harvard 22-32 L @ Rhod Isl 13-28 L vs Stetson 21-31 L @ Prince 7-31 W vs Cornell 28-21 L @ Pennsy 14-21 W vs Yale 27-22 W @ Dartmo 24-21 L vs Columbia 13-31
Defining moments
The statement

The 2016 season's largest margin: Brown 35, Bryant 27. A 8-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Brown 7, Princeton 31. A 24-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Bears"
— Brown fanbase voice · 2016· synthesized
What it meant

2016 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.