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Subject: FCS Going to 12 Game Schedule starting in 2026 Author: Son of Eli [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:35:55 06/06/25 Fri And the Ivy League is still at 10 games. It isn’t the 1960’s anymore. Ridiculous! https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6343426/2025/05/08/fcs-12-game-regular-season-schedule-2026/ [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: While I'm sure it's a formality, Author: voy vey [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:39:17 06/06/25 Fri ...it will happen "if the Division I Council gives its approval during its June 24-25 meeting." [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: FCS Going to 12 Game Schedule starting in 2026 Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:36:18 06/06/25 Fri While the league Presidents surprised me with their playoff reversal, I have a difficult time believing they will ok an 11th game anytime soon after just green lighting playoffs, [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: "Is This A Bad Time to Bring Up My Parking Spot?" Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:56:36 06/06/25 Fri We were very fortunate to obtain approval for FCS playoff participation before all hell broke loose in Low Library and Massachusetts Hall. I doubt that any AD wants to approach his or her president with the question, "Hey, I know you're trying to fix a 15% hole in our budget, have instituted a university-wide hiring freeze and wondering whether we will lose 20% of our student body because they can't get education visas, but can we talk about an eleventh football game?" I think it's much more valuable to participate in the playoffs anyway, so we got the important one. Onward and upward always, but good luck to our eight Ivy League universities. We're going to need it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: "Is This A Bad Time to Bring Up My Parking Spot?" Author: Son of Eli [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:42:04 06/06/25 Fri If that 11th game was against an FBS opponent it would make money for the University. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: "Is This A Bad Time to Bring Up My Parking Spot?" Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:59:25 06/06/25 Fri My sense, with some informal substantiation, is that Ivy coaches generally do not want to play FBS opponents not because it's a likely loss, but because they fear injuries before conference games begin. So the potential paycheck from traveling to Storrs or Piscataway or West Point is less important than having to play Harvard or Princeton two months later without a key starter. Perhaps the eight coaches could formally or informally agree, "Hey guys, it's good for all of us if we occasionally play an FBS opponent, even if each of us fear torpedoing a season. How about we agree that each of us will play an FBS team at least once every four years?" So they will all assume the risk, presumably approximately the same level of risk, over the course of a full recruiting cycle. Showing ourselves and the FCS playoff committee that we can hang with UConn, Rutgers or Army without getting blown out will only help our seeding long term. If the Big Ten moves to nine conference games a season like the SEC is strongly pressuring them to do, Rutgers will be hot to schedule somebody -- anybody -- they can beat. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: "Is This A Bad Time to Bring Up My Parking Spot?" Author: observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:28:00 06/13/25 Fri The counterpoint would be that a forward-looking president would see what has happened to the Ivies in the court of public opinion in recent years, and see that the less politically focused, more school-spirit oriented schools have been ascendant financially, and are also getting more selective, because of increased application/interest from people who don't want to be facing protests walking across campus every 5 minutes. A pivot to school spirit/brand building and away from solipsistic post-modernism might do all 8 schools good. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Unbelievable Times and Developments on Ivy Campuses; the Princeton Art Museum Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:23:26 06/13/25 Fri I don't have the slightest idea what "solipsistic post-modernism" is, but I agree that our eight universities have been heading off deeper into their own echo chamber for too long. Our campuses now resemble our marching bands, lots of mostly disorganized people running around, performing for only themselves, mostly. Sometimes, it seems that the PEOPLE on Ivy League campuses have declared war on the institutions themselves. Has anybody taken a look at the new art museum on the Princeton campus? Google it. It's incredible. It's almost as though the Princeton board of trustees gave carte blanche to the administration at Penn to make one of the most attractive campuses in the nation (Princeton) as ugly as possible. There is no way that anybody who loves Princeton would authorize the construction of that gigantic monstrosity in the middle of campus. It looks like space aliens dropped a federal maximum security prison right down onto a neo-Gothic campus. Princetonians are trying to destroy Princeton. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: FCS Going to 12 Game Schedule starting in 2026 Author: John Harvard [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:03:08 06/13/25 Fri Let's all play Liberty College so we can get a glimpse into our respective futures. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Scheduling culture war colleges Author: ivy guy [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:58:50 06/13/25 Fri Lets schedule Liberty Hillsdale and New College (in Florida) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Is this the real ivy guy, or the imPOSTer? Author: Valmas (Stoic) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 21:06:59 06/13/25 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: FCS Going to 12 Game Schedule starting in 2026 Author: Tiger69 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:02:26 06/17/25 Tue The Ivies are different. Our priorities are academics first, extracurriculars are optional. Athletics are extracurrics. In the extreme, I’d be OK if we played ONLY other Ivies in football (7 games). I’d feel just as excited about beating H, y and the rest and winning the IL. Just because everyone else is playing more games, does it make sense? Where does it all end? Football all the time? Let the rest advance to semi-pro status poaching each others’ stars each season. Do we really want players who are shopping around each year for the best contract rather than serious student athletes whose commitments are based on their academic program? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: FCS Going to 12 Game Schedule starting in 2026 Author: Ghost [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:21:13 06/17/25 Tue I don't think the Princeton coaching staff will have you visiting with recruits and their parents. You need a 2025 calendar and alarm clock. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Oops. Our Bad. Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:31:38 06/17/25 Tue I'm with Tiger69. College athletics have always been messy, starting in the 1870s and 1880s, when Yale and Princeton recruited big, strong students who may or may not have been the academic equivalents of the other students on campus. Oops, sorry. Our bad. But now college sports are going someplace really dark. I mean, I'll still be on ESPN or in the stands, just as before, but let's all acknowledge what a s--tshow it will be. I think it's really important that our football programs will now be participating in the FCS playoffs. Even if we play only seven league opponents and a couple of the usual non-conference suspects (Lehigh, Lafayette, Holy Cross), participating in the FCS playoffs will keep us relevant. We're not going to fade away as long as we win in the playoffs from time to time, and occasionally make a run. The playoffs are critical and key to keeping us a viable Division I conference. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: FCS Going to 12 Game Schedule starting in 2026 Author: Son of Eli [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:28:44 06/25/25 Wed Now it’s official. https://x.com/craighaley/status/1938021986304741654?s=61&t=t_g6dsX6eJy2Ao8a-koX0A [ Post a Reply to This Message ]