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.

The countdown is coming to an end: Penn football is nearing a field near you? or your Florida relative. There is just a week and a half until the Red and Blue head to the Sunshine State to take on Jacksonville, a Pioneer League squad.

Though the season opener against Jacksonville is weeks away, there’s plenty going on in the world of Penn football.

Most long-standing sports institutions are resistant to change. Whether it is Major League Baseball refusing to address time of game issues or the NCAA resisting even the most painfully logical changes to its outdated system, change is continually feared by the sports establishment.

Special teams remains wide open, a group that is often the least heralded part of thechanged from “a” program yet still holds significance for the Red and Blue.

Quakers reveal new jerseys, tribute to LB Grosso

Junior kicker Jimmy Gammill took some time to answer a few questions on his favorite celebrations, Johnny Manziel and Superman.

It’s a new year for Penn Athletics and with a new year comes new predictions.

Outside of an inexperienced O-line, the strength returning all around new QB Alek Torgersen, from the coaching staff on down, puts Penn football in a solid place to succeed.

For the Penn football program, 2014 is set to be a season of firsts and one, all-important last.

Whenever  someone asks him a question about himself  at a press conference or after a practice, Bagnoli immediately deflects the question, preferring to speak about his student-athletes and his fellow coaches