Yale football, under new coach Kevin Cahill, hosts Brown with Ivy playoff hopes alive
The gist
Yale (4-3, 2-2 Ivy) hosts Brown at the Yale Bowl after beating Columbia 26-8 to end a two-game skid.
Yale must win out and have Dartmouth lose once to take the Ivy League's automatic playoff bid.
How it unfolded
- Feb 17, 2026Tony Reno stepped down as head coach of Yale football.
- Feb 23, 2026Kevin Cahill was named the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Yale Football.
- Oct 3, 2026Yale beat Merrimack 41-24 in its home opener, the first game after former head coach Tony Reno's passing.
Key terms
- Ivy
- An American collegiate athletic conference of eight elite private universities in the Northeastern United States.
- FCS
- The second-highest level of NCAA college football in the United States, below the Football Bowl Subdivision.
- automatic playoff bid
- A place in a tournament earned through prior competition results rather than by subjective selection.
Source: Wikipedia