All season long, Brown and Penn have battled each other for first place in the DP's football rankings. Each week, one would emerge just a few decimal points ahead of the other.
Now that the two squads have faced off on the field, the race is not even close. Brown has secured a solid lead, winning both the DP sportswriters poll and computer rankings by significant margins.
The rankings reveal a stellar matchup on Saturday between the No. 2 Quakers and No. 3 Princeton. The DP writers stood firmly behind their school, but the computers give the slight edge to the Tigers.
Penn seems to have the toughest road to an Ivy title, with games against No. 3 Princeton, No. 4 Harvard and No. 6 Cornell still on the way.
Brown seems to have the inside track. They have now played all four teams in the top half of the league, with games remaining against lowly No. 5 Yale, No. 7 Dartmouth and No. 8 Columbia
In the battle for the cellar, Columbia inched 2.4 points closer to Dartmouth this week but still trails by a large margin.
