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Some fascinating storylines along the way to the likely same end (NDSU winning).

First year the Ivies play in the playoff. Lehigh is a tough draw for Harvard but Yale has a shot to knock off Youngstown and then get mauled by MoState.

ACU is capable of a run and has wins against SFU and Tarleton already. Two losses to FBS programs and two inexplicable losses to not great FCS teams. But the path to quarters is open. 
 

BTW, to get in the door at Montana-Montana State this last weekend was around $250 for the cheapest ticket. CFB is about regional rivalries and friendly tribalism and superconferences are killing that. 

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Updating:

Yale did indeed knock out Youngstown in a thriller to give the Ivy League its first win in the FCS playoffs. Harvard got drilled by Nova (I mistyped in my first post, Lehigh is the bye team in that bracket). Yale should go down to Montana State. 

ACU licked Lamar soundly and now has a rematch with SFU, a team they beat once this season. 

Tarleton has a tough but human 7-5 North Dakota team. Highest ranked Texas school in the field— their one loss coming to ACU. Hoping to see them and ACU advance, two longtime DII rivals making noise at FCS.


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What's the deal with the Ivy League.  Had they been boycotting the playoff all these years?  Or abstaining for somekinda "love of the game?"  What changed.

Please don't misunderstand, it's great they're in now.  Need to do the same with the TBC's.

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3 minutes ago, Parliament said:

What's the deal with the Ivy League.  Had they been boycotting the playoff all these years?  Or abstaining for somekinda "love of the game?"  What changed.

Please don't misunderstand, it's great they're in now.  Need to do the same with the TBC's.

The Ivies collectively agreed in the 1940s, before FCS was a thing, not to participate in bowls or postseason play.  They also never have offered athletic scholarships. The original justification was that the post-season conflicted with final exams and was helping turn college sports into something that conflicted with academic missions. 
 

Really was a turning point in college athletics overall and the Ivies went their own way. As late as the late 1930s they were still collectively playing big-time football at a high level but didn’t like how it was going. 

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