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Dawson is currently the Ivy League rushing leader with 134 yards per game, as well as the leading scorer in Division I-AA with an average of 14.4 points per game...
...while the rest of the I-AA world marveled at the utter beating that Harvard unleashed upon one the best teams from the nation’s toughest conference, the Crimson packed up its pads and moved on, almost completely unwilling to accept responsibility for the national shock waves it had just sent through the nation...
...reason for Harvard’s indifference is that the incentives are all wrong. The Crimson has the talent to play with any team in I-AA right now. In fact, Harvard might be the best team in I-AA. And, none of that matters in the least, because the best the Crimson could do from day one was the Ivy Championship. A system that turns a blowout of the No. 19 team in the nation into just another game has serious flaws in my mind...
Just as in 2003, when Penn finished the season as the last unbeaten standing in all of Division-I football, we seem headed for another awkward situation in which the legitimacy of the I-AA national championship is brought into question by the presence of a team which has a serious claim to the title “best team in the nation” but is prohibited from competing...
...that’s Coach Murphy’s lot. He knew that when he took the Harvard job his biggest games of the year would come in the final two weeks of the season against Penn and Yale, not in the I-AA playoffs against a powerhouse like Georgia Southern...