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Bryan Fischer

For the First Time in 80 Years, the Ivy League Will Participate in Playoff Football

Yale and the Ivy League football teams will be able to participate in the FCS playoffs starting this season. | Brenden Welper/Times Herald / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

It’s been almost a quarter-century since former Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Mora Sr. delivered his infamous news conference rant questioning the playoffs, but lately that’s just about all that anybody around football can talk about.

The NFL has floated changes to its postseason seeding at recent owners meetings while the College Football Playoff has been locked into an endless debate over the event’s future format and composition. From commissioners to coaches, everybody is seemingly feeling the need to weigh in whenever there’s a microphone present.

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