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It was not the game I expected. Harvard proved the better team Saturday and, in the process, won the Ivy League's conference title for this year.

Harvard QB Chris Pizzotti threw for a career high 367 yards against Yale's defense. Pizzotti's four touchdown passes put up more points than any other team had managed against Yale in a game so far this year. Harvard running back Cheng Ho scored the game's only rushing touchdown. Yale's lone TD came when Gio Christodoulou ran a punt back 87 yards for the score.

Among those happy with the outcome, GreenSooner said that "One of the many few great things about Harvard football is that it's a successful season if we beat Yale…so there's really no reason to pay attention to any of the rest of it." Ah, it's like that with some many rivalries. At least today, no one cares that Michigan is 8-4 and will probably play on New Year's Day; it only matters that they lost to Ohio State.

So the question now is this: how much significance does the game really carry? Is the Yale loss bad news for Hillary (a graduate of Yale Law School) and/or good news for obama (who went to Harvard School of Law)? Alan Keyes is also a graduate of Harvard, but I somehow doubt the Crimson won will boost his chances of getting the GOP presidential nod. But Romney attended both Harvard School of Law for his JD and Harvard Business School for his MBA.

I suppose we'll have to wait a few months to see if the outcome of the game is a precursor of things beyond football…

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