2017 Princeton Tigers football team


The 2017 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by eighth-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Princeton University Stadium. Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5 overall and 2–5 in Ivy League play to place seventh.

Schedule

The 2017 schedule consisted of six home games and four away games. The Tigers hosted Ivy League foes Columbia, Cornell, and Yale, and traveled to Brown, Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth.
Princeton's non-conference opponents were San Diego of the Pioneer Football League and Lafayette and Georgetown of the Patriot League.

Game summaries

San Diego

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–12014San Diego, 39–29

Lafayette

Overall recordLast meetingResult
41–4–32016Princeton, 35–31

Columbia

Overall recordLast meetingResult
70–15–12016Princeton, 48–13

Georgetown

Overall recordLast meetingResult
7–12016Princeton, 31–17

Brown

Overall recordLast meetingResult
55–282016Princeton, 31–7

Harvard

Overall recordLast meetingResult
54–48–72016Harvard, 23–20

Cornell

Overall recordLast meetingResult
61–36–22016Princeton, 56–7

Penn

Overall recordLast meetingResult
66–41–12016Princeton, 28–0

Yale

Overall recordLast meetingResult
53–76–102016Princeton, 31–3

Dartmouth

Overall recordLast meetingResult
44–48–42016Princeton, 38–21