Villanova·CAA

2014 — The Ten-Win Year

Villanova's 2014 season (11-3) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 11-3
Final result 11-win season
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -1.7 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Syracuse 26-27 W vs Fordham 50-6 W vs Jame Mad 49-31 W @ Pennsy 41-7 W @ Maine 41-20 W vs Rhod Isl 44-21 W @ Will Mar 35-31 W vs Morg Sta 48-28 L @ Richmond 9-10 W vs Towson 42-14 W vs UAlbany 48-31 W @ Delaware 35-28 W vs Liberty 29-22 L vs Sam Hou 31-34
Defining moments
The statement

The 2014 season's largest margin: Villanova 50, Fordham 6. A 44-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Villanova 31, Sam Houston 34. A 3-point margin the season is remembered by.

"They don't talk about it, they do it"
— Villanova fanbase voice · 2014· synthesized
What it meant

2014 is a middle chapter for Villanova — 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.