PHILADELPHIA – Just 40 days from the start of the 2023 season, the University of Pennsylvania football team was picked third in the Ivy League's Preseason Poll, voted on by 16 members of the media—two for each Ancient Eight school—and announced on Monday afternoon.
 
Penn received 90 points, while Princeton was picked second with 103 points and one first-place vote, while reigning Ivy champion Yale was selected the favorite to repeat, garnering 122 points and 13 first-place votes. Harvard was picked fourth with 84 points and one first-place vote.
 
The Quakers went 8-2 and finished tied for second place at the conclusion of the 2022 campaign, winning their most games since 2010. Penn started the year off with six-straight victories, the program's longest winning streak to open a season since 2003.
 
The final game of the season was an important one, as Penn topped #22 Princeton, 20-19, in Old Nassau to snap a three-game skid against the Tigers in the all-time series.
 
Nine All-Ivy selections from last season return to Penn for the upcoming year, led by 2022 first-team honorees DB Kendren Smith and KR Julien Stokes. DB Jaden Key is back for another year after capturing second-team laurels, while QB Aidan Sayin, DL Joey Slackman, DL Micah Morris, LB Jonathan Melvin, LB Jack Fairman and DB Shiloh Means are look to make impacts again following honorable-mention nods.
 
The Red and Blue begins play on Sept. 16 at Colgate at 1 p.m. Penn will open its Ivy slate against Dartmouth at Franklin Field on Sept. 30 at 1 p.m.

2023 Ivy League Preseason Poll (First Place Votes)
1. Yale – 122 (13)
2. Princeton – 103 (1)
3. Penn – 90
4. Harvard – 84 (1)
5. Columbia – 62 (1)
6. Dartmouth – 54
7. Cornell – 37
8. Brown – 24