Home-field advantage.
Theoretical situation: Yale needs the edge in record to have a prayer against their first round opponent. Harvard stands in the way.
Suddenly the black and white fade to gray.
What is my point in all this? It’s all hypothetical, really. It’s not going to happen. The Ivies won’t send a football team to the D-I AA playoffs—and even if they did, naturally it wouldn’t be the likes of Yale.
But let’s just be happy that there’s no moral quandary this weekend. Let’s be happy we can wear obscene t-shirts and scream “scoreboard” and chant “Yale sucks” without any twinges of inner conflict.
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—Staff writer Lisa J. Kennelly can be reached at kennell@fas.harvard.edu.