A Case For The Playoffs

It rambles a bit, but this Columbia Spectator opinion piece makes a case for Ivy League football to go to the NCAA playoffs and for a postseason tournament in basketball. From the story:

...(W)hy not let Harvard or Brown tackle the best of the division this season?
Colgate (a top-20 liberal arts college), for instance, made the playoffs, losing in the first round, 55-28, to Villanova. This is the same team that beat Dartmouth 34-20—a team that failed to lose by fewer than 13 points in any game, except against Columbia—and Princeton, 27-24. If allowed to play, Harvard and Brown may not beat the opponents, but they would definitely remain competitive...

It's not usually a good thing to get mentioned in a Deadspin posting but this one is actually a bit of a defense of Buddy Teevens. It says:

Coaches who follow in the debris-littered wake of Tyrone Willingham don't tend to fare well; just ask Buddy Teevens and Charlie Weis.

The music is good (if strange for the topic) and the camera-work leaves a lot to be desired, but if you have 4 minutes, 42 seconds of your life with nothing better to do, there's a Youtube look at a little of the game and a lot of the festivities around the finale between Dartmouth and Princeton.

Now we're off to UConn-Pitt. We've packed along down sleeping bags to tuck ourselves into. Beats a blanket!