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Date Posted: 12:44:00 12/01/25 Mon
The 2025 Yale team showed us more in the last third of Saturday's game than a variety of better Ivy League champions over the last two decades.
As Boola said, next Saturday's game will be a treat, win or lose.
As far as the "evolve or die" dictum is concerned, I agree with this general premise. That is without a doubt how the world in general works. Darwin was correct. On the other hand, as I posted in another thread recently, always consider the longest and broadest perspective that makes sense.
"Ivy League" has connoted academic excellence and a ticket to a better life since the term was invented during the Depression. HYP have been valuable brand names since the early nineteenth century.
I'm not saying that it's a good thing, but these are durable brand names. Over the last two centuries, the only notable change in the pecking order is the ascendance of Stanford. How many other industries have such slow-moving supertanker dynamics?
No doubt the Ivies currently face a perilous challenges but, if we're going to go down now, it'll be because the federal government has declared war on us, not because our football co-champions fall way behind Villanova and Youngstown State in the first half of two playoff games.
Sample size. Don't forget it.
Two first halves do not a meaningful sample size constitute.
I've seen with my own two eyes Ivy League football champions in the last two decades that could have *won* the national FCS tournament with a fortuitous bounce or two of the pigskin. We'll be fine.
I predict that most of posters on this board will be around to enjoy an Ivy League co-champion make it to the Final Four of the FCS playoffs. Don't you worry about that, folks.
Personally, I hope to live long enough for one of the Ivy football programs to add at least one to the long list of national champions we claim. In contrast to parts of the existing list, this next one will be legitimate.
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