Football Outlook: Big Red Football Chases a Standard Still Being Built

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell football won four straight games in the middle of 2025, defeating Bucknell, Brown and Princeton and capping the streak with a 39-17 statement win at Penn, before dropping its final two, to finish 4-6 overall and 3-4 in Ivy League play, in the second season under head coach Dan Swanstrom. Ask Swanstrom about it, though, and the story isn’t about arriving anywhere. It’s about a standard that’s still being built, one day at a time. “It doesn’t look exactly the way I want it to look yet, but that’s part of the process,” Swanstrom said at…