Your Ivy/Opponent Roundup

Penn 27, Yale 20
Although outgained on the day, 360 yards to 308, Penn outscored the Bulldogs over the middle two quarters, 20-0, and then held on at the end. Yale got 331 yards passing from Pat Witt but just 29 yards on the ground total.

Brown 27, Cornell 14
Joe Springer completed 20-of-33 passes for 287 yards to pace the Bears.

Harvard 45, Princeton 28
Gino Gordon ran for 204 yards in a game that saw injured Harvard quarterbacks Andrew Hatch and Collier Winters both return to action.

Holy Cross 31, Colgate 24
The Crusaders took a 24-7 halftime lead, saw Colgate rally to tie the game on a two-point conversion with 6:37 left, and then drove 76 yards in the final 1:03 to win the game on a 14-yard TD pass with five seconds remaining.

Lehigh 32, Bucknell 10
Lehigh had a 29-12 advantage in first downs and a 466-195 margin in total yards in its 13th consecutive win over the Bison.

Sacred Heart 33, Georgetown 20
Jesper Fredriksson, whose miss allowed Dartmouth to survive the Pioneers, kicked four field goals and Dale Fink threw for 295 yards to sink the Hoyas.

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Ivy League Standings
Penn 3-0, 5-1
Brown 3-0, 4-2
Harvard 2-1, 4-2
Yale 2-1, 4-2
Dartmouth 1-2, 4-2
Columbia 1-2, 3-3
Cornell 0-3, 1-5
Princeton 0-3, 1-5

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Jake Novak's take on the Dartmouth-Columbia game can be found on the Roar Lions Roar blog. He got it right with this:

The Big Green controlled the line of scrimmage, and except for a serious bout with fumblitis in 4th quarter, they controlled the game.

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Here's how the game looked from the official Columbia perspective.

And here's hot it looked from the official Dartmouth perspective.

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The first Colonial Clash, pitting New Hampshire against UMass at Gillette Stadium drew 32,848 people – the largest crowd ever to see a CAA game – as the Wildcats claimed a decisive, 39-13 win over the Minutemen.

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And finally, nothing like getting up at O-dark-30, driving to New York City, zooming back up the road 90 minutes after the game, sitting down to write two stories and then having a fire alarm in your motel rouse you for half an hour at 2:30 a.m. Yawn ;-)