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Given the Ivy League's decision to finally allow its champion to advance to the FCS playoffs, the conference will have to arrive at a method for determining which team gets the automatic bid in the event of a tie at the top of the Ivy standings.
How often could that come into play? It has happened 25 times since the start of formal Ivy League play in 1956. Here's a list of the times the Ivy League has finished with teams sharing the title:
TWO-WAY TIE (19 TIMES)
1961 – Columbia, Harvard (6-1)
1963 – Dartmouth, Princeton (5-2)
1968 – Harvard, Yale (6-0-1)
1971 – Dartmouth, Cornell (6-1)
1974 – Harvard, Yale (6-1)
1976 – Brown, Yale (6-1)
1981 – Dartmouth, Yale (6-1)
1983 – Harvard, Penn (5-1-1)
1988 – Cornell, Penn (6-1)
1989 – Princeton, Yale (6-1)
1990 – Dartmouth, Cornell 6-1)
1992 – Dartmouth, Princeton (6-1)
1999 – Brown, Yale (6-1)
2006 – Princeton, Yale (6-1)
2008 – Harvard, Brown (6-1)
2013 – Harvard, Princeton (6-1)
2016 – Princeton, Penn (6-1)
2019 – Dartmouth, Yale (6-1)
2021 – Dartmouth, Princeton (6-1)
THREE-WAY TIE (SIX TIMES)
1966 – Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton (5-2)
1969 – Dartmouth, Princeton , Yale (6-1)
1982– Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn (5-2)
2015 – Dartmouth, Harvard , Penn (6-1)
2023 – Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale (5-2)
2024 – Dartmouth, Columbia, Harvard (5-2)
* The Ivy League has had an outright champion 42 times.
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EXTRA POINT
There's a saying that goes something like this: "The two happiest days in a hot tub owner's life
are the day they get it, and the day they get rid of it."
Because we've never had a hot tub I can't vouch for that, but I have to admit I feel much the same away about each year about our Christmas tree. Barring a change, this is the final day one corner of our living room will look like this:
