App State, Kentucky, Stanford ... And Dartmouth?

From the Harvard Crimson:

For the past week, each time members of the Harvard football team (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) set foot in the locker room, a glaring set of scores stared back at them:

APPALACHIAN STATE 34, MICHIGAN 32
KENTUCKY 43, LSU 37
STANFORD 24, USC 23
DARTMOUTH 30, HARVARD 16

In a year riddled with upsets in college football, Harvard does not want to be the next added to the list.

The final score posted in the locker room comes not from this year but from 2003, when Harvard faced off against Dartmouth (2-4, 2-1 Ivy) in a similar situation—leading the Ivy League, approaching important games and facing an underdog opponent.

Elsewhere, the Harvard Crimson's always entertaining weekly roundup predicts a final score of Harvard 34, Dartmouth 17. The column includes these thoughts:

Last week’s 37-point showing versus Columbia notwithstanding, the Big Green offense, without a top-10 rusher or a top-10 receiver, and with mediocre quarterbacks Tom Bennewitz and Alexander Jenny splitting time under center, is simply overmatched.

And ...

Poor Dartmouth, which enters the Harvard game with a winning league record for only the second time in 10 years, will soon return to the more familiar climes of .500 and below.

Today's Daily Dartmouth considers how the Big Green might finish out the season. From The D:

It appears like the highest attainable outcome for 2007 Big Green football is a third-place Ivy finish that would give the team claim to the title “best of the rest” — a realistic goal that, if achieved, would classify as a breakthrough that could jump start a return to prominence for the long-lagging program.

Regrettably, the team’s pursuit of said breakthrough begins against a squad on the superior side of the aforementioned dichotomy, Harvard, this Saturday. That’s not to say our boys don’t have a shot — but it’s safe to assume, judging from its season to date, that victory is still a longshot for Dartmouth.

(We don't hear much from the Dartmouth Review anymore. In case you were wondering what the paper had to say leading up to the Homecoming game, you can find a story here.)

The Daily Pennsylvanian has an overview of league games without predictions here.

Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher was asked at his weekly press conference whether he would use two tight ends with his starting fullback out. His answer:

“We’ve got confidence – Casey (Cramer) has done it before and Bo (Scaife) has done it before. So it’s a part of our offense. But just because Ahmard’s not there, it’s not going to push us out of that personnel group. ”

And finally, check Green Alert Premium tonight for stats and a capsule look at today's Dartmouth-Harvard junior varsity game in Cambridge. Green Alert will also have the regular weekly Fearful Forecast predictions of games featuring Dartmouth opponents as well as a preview of Dartmouth-Harvard.