How are all of the Ivy teams looking heading into the 2013 season. We take a look in our Ivy Outlook.

One year ago, around the time this very issue came out, the Red and Blue’s defensive backs were labeled as question marks. This year, the narrative has made a 180 degree turn. Once maligned, Penn’s defensive backfield is now viewed as one of the team’s biggest strengths.

Brandon Copeland, along with fellow linemen C.J Mooney and Taylor Brown, graduated, turning one of Penn’s top strengths into a definitive question mark as 2013 begins. But the new crew is brimming with confidence.

To the average football fan, such a play doesn’t get the heart racing too fast, but for coach Al Bagnoli, a run up the middle for a few yards is his lifeblood.

We asked Dan Davis about the pursuit of a fourth title, his musical choices, and what his secret talent is.

What our editors took away from Media Day.

Suddenly protecting lefty fifth-year senior quarterback Billy Ragone’s blind side now falls to … we’ll see.

We caught up with fifth-year senior Sam Chwarzynski at Media Day Monday about his pursuit of a fourth outright Ivy championship in his Penn football career.

The Penn football team looks spruced up in its new white uniforms as the players gather for its annual team picture, and despite it being his first go-round for football’s Media Day, junior Max Kurtzman fits right in.

Fifth-year senior quarterback Billy Ragone walks us through the last nine months of his life, from his gruesome ankle injury of the fourth quarter of Penn’s Ivy title share-clinching win over Harvard on Nov. 10 through Monday’s Media Day scrum.

The first words Penn coach Al Bagnoli uttered at Monday morning’s annual Media Day served as a sobering reminder that in Ivy football, the worst way to finish on top is to start there.

Thursday morning, we confirmed that former Penn running back Lyle Marsh will miss the 2013 season due to academic issues. So what is a Quakers’ running attack without Lyle Marsh missing?

As Billy Ragone’s Penn football career reaches its conclusion in 2013, he’ll give the Quakers a far greater chance of winning their fourth Ivy crown in five years than any other quarterback in the conference.

After upsetting Harvard last season, the Quakers are in yet another dog fight to take the throne this year.

Penn football begins the year as the preseason favorites to earn an unprecedented fourth Ivy title in five years. But this year, the Quakers won’t be sneaking up on anyone, as they return much of last year’s squad.

The Ivy League Preseason Media Poll released Tuesday revealed that Penn is the favorite to win the 2013 conference title, with the Quakers collecting 11 of 17 first-place votes.

The 2013 NFL Draft came and went, and though three Ivy League players were selected, no Penn players went. But it didn’t take much time past pick No. 254 for the Baltimore Ravens to call up senior DE/OLB Brandon Copeland to sign him as a free agent.