# 2019 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 2019 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 2019 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The season marked the Bulldogs's 147th overall season. The team played its home games at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut and were led by eighth-year head coach Tony Reno. They were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 9–1 overall and 6–1 in Ivy League play to share the Ivy League title with Dartmouth. Yale averaged 12,132 fans per game.

## Preseason
### Preseason media poll

The Ivy League released their preseason media poll on August 8, 2019. The Bulldogs were picked to finish in first place.
| Predicted finish | Team | Votes (1st place) |
| 1 | Yale | 119 (9) |
| 2 | Dartmouth | 111 (2) |
| 3 | Princeton | 107 (4) |
| 4 | Harvard | 93 (1) |
| 5 | Penn | 67 |
| 6 | Columbia | 61 (1) |
| 7 | Cornell | 29 |
| 8 | Brown | 24 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
| September 21 | 1:00 p.m. | Holy Cross* | | Yale BowlNew Haven, CT | ESPN+ | W 23–10 | 5,684 |
| September 28 | 1:00 p.m. | Cornell | | Yale BowlNew Haven, CT | ESPN+ | W 27–16 | 5,723 |
| October 5 | 1:00 p.m. | Fordham* | | Yale BowlNew Haven, CT | ESPN+/NESN Plus | W 48–24 | 5,743 |
| October 12 | 1:30 p.m. | at Dartmouth | | Memorial FieldHanover, NH | ESPN+ | L 10–42 | 6,796 |
| October 19 | 6:00 p.m. | at Richmond* | | E. Claiborne Robins StadiumRichmond, VA | FloSports | W 28–27 | 7,510 |
| October 26 | Noon | Penn | | Yale BowlNew Haven, CT | ESPN+/NESN | W 46–41 | 4,990 |
| November 2 | Noon | Columbia | | Yale BowlNew Haven, CT | ESPN+ | W 45–10 | 5,667 |
| November 9 | 12:30 p.m. | at Brown | | Brown StadiumProvidence, RI | ESPN+ | W 59–35 | 2,876 |
| November 16 | 1:00 p.m. | at No. 18 Princeton | | Powers Field at Princeton StadiumPrinceton, NJ (rivalry) | ESPN+ | W 51–14 | 6,676 |
| November 23 | Noon | Harvard | No. 24 | Yale BowlNew Haven, CT (rivalry) | ESPNU | W 50–43 $^{2OT}$ | 44,989 |
| *Non-conference gameRankings from STATS Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern time ||||||||

## Game summaries
### Holy Cross

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Crusaders | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| Bulldogs | 6 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 23 |

### Cornell

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Big Red | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
| Bulldogs | 3 | 0 | 7 | 17 | 27 |

### Fordham

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Rams | 7 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 24 |
| Bulldogs | 17 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 48 |

### At Dartmouth

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| Big Green | 21 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 42 |

### At Richmond

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 0 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 28 |
| Spiders | 3 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 27 |

### Penn

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Quakers | 0 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 41 |
| Bulldogs | 7 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 46 |

### Columbia

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Lions | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| Bulldogs | 7 | 14 | 3 | 21 | 45 |

### At Brown

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 17 | 7 | 18 | 17 | 59 |
| Bears | 0 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 35 |

### At Princeton

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Bulldogs | 3 | 27 | 7 | 14 | 51 |
| No. 18 Tigers | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 14 |

### Harvard

| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | OT | 2OT | Total |
| Crimson | 3 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 43 |
| No. 24 Bulldogs | 3 | 0 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 50 |

## Ranking movements

Ranking movements Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking RV = Received votes :
| | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week | Week |
| Poll | Pre | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Final |
| STATS FCS | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | RV | 24 | 25 |
| Coaches | RV | | | | | | | | | | RV | RV | 25 | 24 |