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Part of that controversial move was the decision to also abstain from the Division I-AA playoffs, a move that Orleans became well-known for defending. The argument voiced by the Ivy League’s presidents, then and now, is that football is just different from other sports, and...
The league’s teams themselves are changing their outlook. There have been several efforts in recent years to schedule some lower-level Division I-A opponents by Ivy schools; Harvard briefly had Army on the schedule before the Black Knights entered Conference USA and had to remove the...
“For whatever reason, our division doesn’t count towards a bowl,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy explains. “They’re less excited to play teams in our division, simply because you need six Division I, quote unquote, victories to...
This trend might itself be aided by the changes to the landscape of college football. Last year’s tumultuous season in Division I-A, which saw the first two-loss national champion in the BCS era, has been partially blamed on nationwide scholarship reductions that made powerhouse programs...
“For those who wonder why we didn’t stay in Division I-A as Duke, Stanford and Northwestern did, I would ask, what do you think of their football experience this year?,” Orleans said in an interview with the New York Times...