While Saturday will be all about Al Bagnoli, who will be coaching for the last time at Franklin field, the coach on the opposite sideline deserves his fair share of recognition.

After 23 years, it's time for Al Bagnoli to say goodbye to Franklin Field.

Although this will also be his last campaign on the Quakers’ sideline, Bagnoli made it perfectly clear before the year started that he never wanted his impending retirement to overshadow what his players did on the field.

Everyone reading this next sentence will hate me but I will say it anyway: When Al Bagnoli announced in April that he would retire after the 2014 season, I immediately thought about Derek Jeter.

Bad calls or not, the Red and Blue had a chance to come into Princeton and deal their biggest rival a season-killing loss on national television. By all accounts, they could have — and should have — won.

After losing consecutive Ivy games to Yale and Brown, the Quakers came to New Jersey with upset on their minds, but came up just short, falling to Princeton, 22-17.

All in all, some miscues in Princeton territory held Penn back as the Quakers fell behind the Tigers in the first half, 19-7, at Princeton Stadium despite forcing their first turnover in almost a month.

With disappointment swirling around Penn football and its conference record, the squad has upset on its collective mind.

After Penn football’s 21-13 loss to Brown on Saturday, coach Al Bagnoli was not about to make any excuses for the Quakers’ offensive performance. But curiously enough, Brown coach Phil Estes was.

Homecoming has the potential to be great for any school. A ton of alumni (read: possible donors) all in the same place, interacting with your campus and taking in the athletic events you have on tap. But when events unfold like they did for Penn Athletics on Saturday, it is hard to call this rain-soaked Homecoming great for the athletic department.

Seven games into the 2014 season, it's impossible to deny the sense of disappointment surrounding Penn football.

A bitterly cold rain drove much of the anticipated Homecoming crowd away, and the Quakers didn’t give the several thousand that braved the rain many reasons to cheer.

A bitterly cold rain has kept most fans from attending Penn football’s homecoming game against Brown. It apparently drove away Penn’s offense for much of the first half as well.

Penn football's special teams unit has proved itself to be quite valuable for the Red and Blue this year. While the 'Gold Squad' often flies under the radar, this photo gallery shows off the groups collective personality and prowess.

For our story on Penn’s special teams unit, former All-Ivy punter Scott Lopano spoke about his experience as a member of the ‘Gold Squad.’ 

Going to a Penn football practice, everything has a structure. Each player knows where he is supposed to be, when he is supposed to be there and which coach will be working with him.

At 1-5 and already beset with two Ivy losses, Penn football is, for all intents and purposes, done in 2014. But believe it or not, there’s still plenty of reason to watch.