UConn vs. Yale
UConn and Yale have 34 meetings on file, the first in 1948; Yale leads the series 30–4 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Yale 8–2. Share
- UConn wins
- 4
- Yale wins
- 30
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1948
- Longest streak
- 16 Yale
- Current streak
- 1 UConn
- Last 10 meetings
- Yale 8–2
- Most recent
- 2021
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–9 | ||||||||||
| 1960s | 2–8 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 1–9 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 0–2 | ||||||||||
| 2020s | 1–0 |
- Average margin
- 13.9 points; 11 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At UConn
- 1–0 UConn’s record at home
- At Yale
- 30–3 Yale’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 13
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- UConn’s biggest win1973: UConn 27, Yale 13by 14 points
- Yale’s biggest win1953: Yale 32, UConn 0by 32 points
- Upset1969: UConn 19, Yale 15UConn had a 8% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1973: UConn 27, Yale 13UConn had a 12% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Upset1965: UConn 13, Yale 6UConn had a 16% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers

1948 · Evening star, Oct 3, 1948

1950 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 24, 1950

1952 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 21, 1952

1953 · Evening star, Sep 27, 1953

1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 26, 1954
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Oct 16, 2021 | UConn 21, Yale 15 | at UConn | ||
| Sep 26, 1981 | Yale 27, UConn 18 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 27, 1980 | Yale 20, UConn 10 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 29, 1979 | Yale 24, UConn 17 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 30, 1978 | Yale 21, UConn 7 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 24, 1977 | Yale 23, UConn 12 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 25, 1976 | Yale 21, UConn 10 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 27, 1975 | Yale 35, UConn 14 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 28, 1974 | Yale 20, UConn 7 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 29, 1973 | UConn 27, Yale 13 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 30, 1972 | Yale 28, UConn 7 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 25, 1971 | Yale 23, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 26, 1970 | Yale 10, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 27, 1969 | UConn 19, Yale 15 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 28, 1968 | Yale 31, UConn 14 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 7, 1967 | Yale 14, UConn 6 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 24, 1966 | Yale 16, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 25, 1965 | UConn 13, Yale 6 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 26, 1964 | Yale 21, UConn 6 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 28, 1963 | Yale 3, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 29, 1962 | Yale 18, UConn 14 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 30, 1961 | Yale 18, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 24, 1960 | Yale 11, UConn 8 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 26, 1959 | Yale 20, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 27, 1958 | Yale 8, UConn 6 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 28, 1957 | Yale 27, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 29, 1956 | Yale 19, UConn 14 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 24, 1955 | Yale 14, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 25, 1954 | Yale 27, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 26, 1953 | Yale 32, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 20, 1952 | Yale 34, UConn 13 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 23, 1950 | Yale 25, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Sep 24, 1949 | Yale 26, UConn 0 | at Yale | ||
| Oct 2, 1948 | Yale 7, UConn 0 | at Yale |
Every game is listed as played on the field.