Penn Predicted to Three-peat

As the NFL lockout continues to hang over our heads, it might be time to start gearing up for college football season. And if Sporting News' predictions are correct, it should be another year to remember for the Quakers.

Sporting News has issued its annual preseason rankings and has predicted that Penn will win the Ivy League championship this year for the third consecutive time. Before the season began last year, Penn was picked in the preseason media poll to finish second behind Harvard -- despite coming off an undefeated championship season in 2009 -- but the Quakers used the slight as fuel to run the table in 2010.

If the Quakers win the title this season, it would be the second time in school history that the team has won three consecutive Ivy championships. The last time it did so was in 1984 on its way to five consecutive titles from 1982-1986.

Not only is Penn predicted to win the Ivy title, but the Quakers are also predicted to be in the Top 25 in the FCS, coming in at number 24. Penn ended the 2010 season ranked 16th in the FCS. No Penn players made the magazines' preseason FCS all-American team.

Here are the full predicted Ivy standings:

1. Penn

2. Harvard

3. Yale

4. Brown

5. Dartmouth

6. Princeton

7. Columbia

8. Cornell

Do you expect the Quakers to bring home another Ivy championship this year?