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Coming out of the weekend, Penn remains one of only two unbeaten teams in all of Division I-AA—the only other being playoff-bound Colgate. Both the ESPN and Sports Network polls have the Quakers ranked in the top 10. This Penn squad is the strongest Ivy League team in recent history and has led the conference’s charge back into the national spotlight...
...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...
Penn would then advance to the quarterfinals to take on the Colgate-UMass winner. This game would probably take place at Franklin Field, due to the selection committee’s affinity for picking the best facilities as sites for playoff games...
...Belichick still showed flashes of individual success-to-come in Cleveland during his one playoff year, when he beat Parcells and the Pats in the 1994 Wild Card game...
...playoff games in 1996, it was Belichick’s defense which controlled the games by allowing just nine points combined...