You probably heard that Penn has lost its third Ivy League game, and is out of title contention. Or that the Quakers lost their third game of this season to Dartmouth, something they hadn’t done in 10 years. Or that quarterback Robert Irvin’s third year on the team would turn out so bad – throwing seven interceptions, one touchdown and getting medically redshirted because of a re-injured shoulder.

But you may not have recognized how bad the Quakers have been on third down this year. Overall they are 40 for 114, or 35 percent, but that’s even worse than it looks. If you take out blowouts over cake teams in Georgetown and Columbia (a combined 2-14 this year), the Quakers are 25 for 86 on third down for a grand total of 29 percent. In this weekend’s loss they went a dreadful 3 for 15 on third down.

Even more shocking is Penn’s job in the third quarter this year – it has been outscored 37-3. Kicker Andrew Samson ended the 78-plus-minute drought in the third quarter this season with a 43-yard field goal against Yale. The Quakers have scored 0.02857 points per minute in the third quarter this year, as opposed to 0.6952 p/m in the opening quarter.

I guess Al Bagnoli had better pass those halftime speeches on to Ray Priore…