Following Up on Harvard

The Harvard Crimson has a couple of stories out of Saturday's game. The first is a recap of the game with this drop-hed: With a dominant performance up front, Harvard scored on every first-half possession in a big Ivy win. That's not quite right, actually. There was indeed scoring on every Harvard possession – sort of – but one of the touchdowns was scored by Dartmouth after the Big Green forced a second-quarter punt and Shawn Abuhoff brought it back 82 yards for a touchdown.

The second Crimson story out of Saturday notes that:

At the beginning of the year, it appeared that Ivy teams were moving towards parity, with recent doormats Dartmouth and Princeton showing signs of life. But with four conference games in the books, the Ivy League has once again split into its hierarchy.

Ivy League standings
1. Pennsylvania 4-0, 6-1
t-2. Brown 3-1, 4-3
t-2. Yale 3-1, 5-2
t-2. Harvard 3-1, 5-2
t-5. Dartmouth 1-3, 4-3
t-5. Cornell 1-3, 2-5
t-5. Columbia 1-3, 3-4
8. Princeton 0-4, 1-6

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There's a game story in The Daily Dartmouth.

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To learn a little more about this week's opponent, check out the Cornell Sun story on the Big Red victory over Princeton Saturday.

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This week's Sagarin Ratings with last week's rating and result in parentheses:

130. Penn (140 - beat Brown)
166. Harvard (186 - beat Dartmouth)
181. Yale (181 - beat Columbia)
192. Brown (196 - lost to Penn)
196. Dartmouth (185 - lost to Harvard)
205. Columbia (208 - lost to Yale)
227. Cornell (228 - beat Princeton)
229. Princeton (233 - lost to Cornell)

200. Holy Cross (201 - idle)
210. Sacred Heart (221 - beat Monmouth)
238. Bucknell (237 - lost to Lafaeytte)

78. New Hampshire (84 - idle)
178. Colgate (171 - lost to Lehigh)