Penn football's game against Villanova started at 3:00 PM but it looks like the Quakers never quite woke up.

There’s a certain mantra that’s been circulating around Penn football this week. It’s been uttered at every practice and pasted on every sheet of paper at every meeting.

It's no secret that Penn football is a team loaded with veteran talent. But what about its youth movement?

Penn football received a boost on Saturday from junior tight end Ryan Kelly, who made his first career reception in the third quarter. That reception went for a touchdown and now we decided to sit down with Kelly for a few questions ...

There are several aspects of Penn football currently in transition. Despite that, those players showed flashes of brilliance on Saturday, and allow Red and Blue fans to reminisce over the 2012 championship team.

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Coming off a disappointing campaign in 2013, one in which a team loaded with veterans dropped its final four games by a combined 48 points, Penn hits the road this weekend to open its season against coach Kerwin Bell’s Jacksonville squad.

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There are 10 games left in the Al Bagnoli era for Penn football, but there are only seven that really matter.

With coach Al Bagnoli set to retire, coach-in-waiting Ray Priore and Penn football are united to send him out on top.

As the team prepares to open up its season against Jacksonville with sophomore Alek Torgersen — a quarterback who has only played one quarter throughout his young college career — under center, Bagnoli and the entire offense are taking comfort in the return of several talented receivers from last year’s squad.

Now, 10 months after making his November debut, the Red and Blue’s unquestioned starter is out to prove that his performance was no fluke.

If Penn wants to win the Ivy League, there are three top contenders the Quakers will have to deal with: Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton.

It’s a time of change for Penn football. A fresh quarterback in sophomore Alek Torgersen, senior Spencer Kulcsar moving to receiver, and a coaching change right around the corner.But in all that excitement, no attention seems to be given to a relatively inexperienced offensive line filled with new faces.

The 2012 All-Ivy performer and current fifth-year senior captain lets us in on some of his preferences when it comes to superheroes, vacations and more.

Penn football’s season is set to lift off this weekend in Jacksonville, and while all the attention will be on whether new starting quarterback Alek Torgerson can lead a bounce-back campaign for the Quakers, the tireless efforts of the program’s operational staff to make the trip a possibility will go more or less unrecognized.

After a subpar defensive performance in 2013, the Quakers will look to their remarkably experienced and accomplished defensive back seven to spark a run towards an Ivy title in coach Al Bagnoli’s final season.