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...could this team have gone? Would Penn have been able to advance to the I-AA title game in Chattanooga, Tenn.? For argument’s sake, let’s take a look at a likely playoff bracket and see just how far our fellow Ivy leaguers could have advanced on a national level had the Ancient Eight presidents lifted the post-season...
...I-AA playoffs involve 16 teams—eight automatic conference winners and eight at-large teams—split into four regions. The best team in each region is seeded and is guaranteed home field advantage for its first two games and the other three teams are matched up primarily by proximity to each other...
Penn comes into the game with no such troubles. With its win last week—its 14th straight overall—the Quakers jumped to No. 8 in the Sports Network/CSTV I-AA poll, the highest ranking ever for an Ivy League School...
After all, this is a passing game that graduated the legendary Carl Morris ’03 and lost its No. 2 man, Kyle Cremarosa, to a broken ankle during the off-season and still became the best offense in Division I-AA, averaging 502.9 yards of total offense and 34.7 points per game prior to the team’s defeat in New York...
...only is it ridiculous to preserve this system in its present state, it’s also not fair. The Ivies are the only league in all of Division I football that limits a team’s accomplishment to a conference title. The Ivy League schedules games against I-AA powerhouses Villanova, Lehigh, and Northeastern. I wonder what’s more agonizing—winning or losing. If you lose, you feel the pain of knowing you don’t belong. If you win, it’s the pain of knowing...