The 2017 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University as a member of the Ivy League during the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season.

Led by 20th-year head coach Phil Estes, the Bears compiled an overall record of 2–8 with a mark of 0–7 in conference play, placing last out of eight teams in the Ivy League.

The Bears hosted Ivy League foes Princeton and Penn, and traveled to Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia.

As in 2016, Brown's non-conference opponents were Bryant of the Northeast Conference, Rhode Island of the Colonial Athletic Association, and Stetson of the Pioneer Football League.

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