{"id":118822,"date":"2024-09-19T06:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herosports.com\/?p=118822"},"modified":"2024-09-19T06:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:52:57","slug":"fcs-2024-ivy-league-football-preview-dsds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-2024-ivy-league-football-preview-dsds\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Ivy League Football Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At last, the <a href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/college-football\/ivy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ivy League<\/a> is back, with its <a href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/college-football\/fcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FCS<\/a>-latest opening day coming on Saturday. The Ancient Eight are set to showcase a familiar title hunt led by perennial powers Harvard and Yale, but the parity in the conference ensures plenty of landmines for the favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harvard went 8-2 overall in 2023, including a Senior Day, championship-clinching, triple-overtime win over Penn. The next week, the Crimson fell to Yale 23-18 in The Game, getting the Bulldogs their share of the Ivy championship and embodying the weekly thrills of late-season Ivy ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>November in the Ivy League, of course, carries special significance as the conference holds out from the FCS playoffs and its would-be auto-bid to the dance. The league title is the ultimate, and really sole, crown for these historic rivals, the majority of which see more transfers out than in \u2013 yet the programs\u2019 depth in the upper echelon of the league almost guarantees a photo finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b673653d gb-headline-text\"><strong>New Customer Offers at BetMGM<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-text-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betmgm.com\/en\/mobileportal\/register?utm_source=herosports&amp;utm_medium=green_button&amp;utm_campaign=registration_page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New Customers: Up to $1,500 in Bonus Bets<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-0cebdcd1 gb-headline-text\"><em>Bonus Bets Expire in 7 Days. One New Customer Offer Only. Add\u2019l Terms<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-black-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-black-background-color has-background\"\/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-preseason-all-americans\">Preseason All-Americans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Via <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/fcs\/2024-fcs-football-central-preseason-all-american-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>FCS Football Central<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown (1) \u2013 DB Isaiah Reed (2nd Team)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Penn (1) \u2013 WR Jared Richardson (2nd Team)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-names-to-know\">Names To Know<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TOP OFFENSIVE PLAYER:<\/strong> <em>Jared Richardson, Penn WR<\/em> \u2014 Richardson lit it up last year, breaking out for the Quakers with team highs in receptions (67), receiving yards (788), and receiving touchdowns (8). In order for Penn to crack the ceiling formed by Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Princeton atop the Ivy, the Quakers will have to score at a rate even better than last season\u2019s 26.2 PPG. Richardson, a 6-2, 215-pound junior, will have a large hand in that \u2013 though it will be intriguing to see defenses give him extra attention after his 2023 turned heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TOP DEFENSIVE PLAYER:<\/strong> <em>Isaiah Reed, Brown DB<\/em> \u2014 Reed, in fairness, has a great argument to occupy his teammate\u2019s slot as a top NFL prospect (below). The 6-0, 185-pound ballhawk led the Ivy League in interceptions a year ago with five. All five picks came against Ivy opponents that finished ahead of Brown in the standings. Reed is all over the place on the national radar, appearing on the Reese\u2019s Senior Bowl watch list this preseason in addition to the Buck Buchanan Award watch list and a 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl 1000 selection. Reed\u2019s Brown defense will need his takeaways to get off the field if last year\u2019s 30.1 PPG allowed in Ivy action doesn\u2019t improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TOP NFL PROSPECT:<\/strong> <em>Jake Willcox, Brown QB<\/em> \u2014 Willcox is guided by Bears quarterbacks coach Heather Marini, the first female position coach in Division I history who remains the only female position coach in DI in 2024. Willcox\u2019s play adds to that great story. The fifth-year QB has ascended since first getting starts in 2022. A year ago, Willcox led the Ivy League with 2,924 passing yards and concluded second in the Ivy with 18 touchdown passes. He was asked to sling it as a senior, wrapping up at 292.4 passing yards per game to go with 28.5 completions per game. The former figure made Willcox the top returning FCS passer per game entering this fall. With another productive year, it\u2019s possible that the Everett, Massachusetts native follows the footsteps of fellow Brown QB (turned NFL practice squad member) EJ Perry.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hero-sports-predicted-order-of-finish\">HERO Sports\u2019 Predicted Order of Finish<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Harvard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Penn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yale<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Princeton<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dartmouth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Columbia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cornell<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ivy League has long been something of a unicorn in the FCS (let alone its academic prestige), as its slightly shorter regular season tradition throws national fans off its calendar to an extent. Some of these fans might discount the Ivy for its postseason choice, but the conference is also a one-score-game factory at times, producing ample excitement with some of the subdivision\u2019s legendary brands. All battle for similar recruits in similar areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One storied brand, Harvard, returns a great deal of production to make a run. The Crimson are experienced with top QBs Charles DePrima and Jaden Craig back in the fold. That\u2019s not to mention the return of Shane McLaughlin, the 2023 Ivy League rushing leader with 830 yards on 155 attempts. Top wide receiver Cooper Barkate adds to the list of reliable faces for first-year Harvard head coach Andrew Aurich. Former head coach Tim Murphy retired in January after three decades steering the Crimson. Murphy left Aurich a good situation in Cambridge, albeit with the obvious big shoes to fill following that longevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also a situation with high competition for first place this season. Penn brings back quarterback Aidan Sayin as a senior. His 279.1 passing yards per game were fifth in the FCS last season. Yale, meanwhile, has to be one of the premier preseason No. 3s in any FCS conference. The Bulldogs are coming off the Nolan Grooms era at QB, but they maintain numerous all-conference types in 2022 Ivy League Rookie of the Year RB Josh Pitsenberger, 6-4 tight end Ry Yates, and defensive lineman Dylan Yang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the more remarkable parts of the Ivy League order is that Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown create a rock-solid tier in the middle. Only one of these three teams can find the top half of the projection here, though, and Princeton is trustworthy under Bob Surace. Even in a down year (by the Tigers\u2019 standards) a year ago at 5-5, there were wins over Harvard and Penn alongside one-score losses to Lafayette, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that the Ivy\u2019s start this week means that we will begin to see some more interesting nonconference meetings trickling in in the northeast. These involve Ivy programs unafraid of testing matchups that would hypothetically make for nice playoff games regionally:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 1 &#8211; Yale at Holy Cross, Penn at (FBS-transitioning) Delaware<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 3 &#8211; New Hampshire at Harvard, UAlbany at Cornell\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 4 &#8211; Brown at Rhode Island, Princeton at Mercer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last, the Ivy League is back, with its FCS-latest opening day coming on Saturday. The Ancient Eight are set to showcase a familiar title hunt led by perennial powers Harvard and Yale, but the parity in the conference ensures plenty of landmines for the favorites. 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