Ivy League to participate in FCS playoffs in 2025
In a dramatic shift, the Ivy League's football teams are now going to be able to compete for FCS national championships.
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Ivy League schools joining playoffs starting 2025
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Ivy League to participate in FCS playoffs in 2025
In a dramatic shift, the Ivy League's football teams are now going to be able to compete for FCS national championships.www.espn.com
One of the first 'happy news' in college sports I've read in a helluva long time! Good for the Ivy Fball teams -- the hypocrisy of denying them what ALL of their peers have been permitted to accomplish - post-season... well, WELL past due.
FCS Playoffs just got better!!
sycamore tuff
The Renn Level
Glad to see this. It should bring more attention to the FCS and its playoffs.
DyedBlue
The All-MVC Level
Just STEP 1 in my prediction that the schools with the largest unrestricted endowments will be football powers in 2034!!
I imagine it will be 5-6 years vying (successfully??) for an FCS Championship and then the top Ivies will feel the itch to enter the FBS world and compete in the then 16-24 team playoffs. Unless all of them make t he move, it may mean the end of the Ivy League as an athletic conference; however, all of them do have the funds to make it happen if they so choose.
With the capability to pay an average of $1,000,000 player on the roster with huge donor contributions & unrestricted endowment monies, there will be plenty of very smart, very good players available to make that happen.
I wonder what rosters composed of the top talent from Duke, Notre Dame, Stanford, Northwestern, and Cal Berkeley and other top public schools would look like at Harvard and Yale???
I imagine it will be 5-6 years vying (successfully??) for an FCS Championship and then the top Ivies will feel the itch to enter the FBS world and compete in the then 16-24 team playoffs. Unless all of them make t he move, it may mean the end of the Ivy League as an athletic conference; however, all of them do have the funds to make it happen if they so choose.
With the capability to pay an average of $1,000,000 player on the roster with huge donor contributions & unrestricted endowment monies, there will be plenty of very smart, very good players available to make that happen.
I wonder what rosters composed of the top talent from Duke, Notre Dame, Stanford, Northwestern, and Cal Berkeley and other top public schools would look like at Harvard and Yale???
In 5-6 years the B1G and SEC will probably be playing in their own non-NCAA league/championship. Unless the Ivy can jump on that boat, is it worth the complete athletic restructuring it would take to just compete with the ACC/BigXII casts offs and current G5?
Awesome! There has been talk about them considering this for several years now. I'm glad they have finally decided to join in on the fun.Ivy League to participate in FCS playoffs in 2025
In a dramatic shift, the Ivy League's football teams are now going to be able to compete for FCS national championships.
I wish the SWAC and MEAC would send their champions to the playoffs too. I'd even be fine with incorporating their bowl game into the field as a first round game.
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I don't think many of the IVY League schools have UNrestricted endowments... Do you recall that Harvard had their hand out for COVID relief funding?
MOST endowments are restricted.
PLUS... are you now tracking the pending class action lawsuit vs. the "elite colleges"?
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litig...-damages-us-financial-aid-lawsuit-2024-12-17/
The guilty parties:
The lawsuit initially named 16 defendants: Yale University, Columbia University, Duke University, Brown University, Emory University, Georgetown, the California Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Penn, Vanderbilt, MIT, Notre Dame, Rice University and the University of Chicago. Johns Hopkins University was later added.
I see 7 FCS schools, 4 FBS schools and a handful of Div III and non-football schools on that list...
Just another bite from those "unrestricted" endowments
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