Looking to the Future

While Dartmouth's Future Football Schedules page with schedules through 2010 hasn't yet been updated, the schedules in the pull-down window on the football schedule page are now posted through 2013. The 2012 schedule confirms a second visit by Sacred Heart. The 2013 schedule features six home games and four on the road with non-conference visits from Holy Cross and Bucknell confirmed.

2012
Sept. 15 Butler
Sept. 22 at Holy Cross
Sept. 29 Penn
Oct. 6 at Yale
Oct. 13 Sacred Heart
Oct. 20 at Columbia
Oct. 27 Harvard
Nov. 3 at Cornell
Nov. 10 Brown
Nov. 17 at Princeton

2013
Sept. 21 at Butler
Sept. 28 Holy Cross
Oct. 5 at Penn
Oct. 12 Yale
Oct. 19 Bucknell
Oct. 26 Columbia
Nov. 2 at Harvard
Nov. 9 Cornell
Nov. 16 at Brown
Nov. 23 Princeton

The lone non-conference game listed on the Future Football Schedules page beyond 2013 is at 2015 visit to Georgetown. The only sure thing beyond the contest with the Hoyas is that the Dartmouth-UNH series still has two games remaining on the contract.

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Today's Manchester Union Leader has a story suggesting message board chatter about a potential Holy Cross-New Hampshire game this fall might have some basis in fact. Although there is no confirmation from officials at the two schools, the story says the teams appear to have reached an agreement to play Oct. 1 in Durham. Published schedules show neither team has a game scheduled for that date.

Connecting the dots, the Holy Cross spring prospectus lists 10 tentative opponents with the note that there is, "one non-conference opponent still to be announced."

The UNH schedule released on Feb. 22, meanwhile, included a strange matchup against Central State on Sept. 17. The game against a Division II team that has gone 2-20 over the last two years will not help UNH's chances at gaining an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament if it doesn't win the CAA, and that has led to speculation that the Wildcats might trade the game out for one against Holy Cross.

News the Holy Cross might indeed be playing at UNH on Oct. 1 sent me scrambling to double-check the date of the Dartmouth-Holy Cross game because there can be a lot of sore bodies the next week. Turns out the Crusaders play Brown on Oct. 8 and Dartmouth one week later.

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It's an off day for Dartmouth football. The Big Green will do the first hitting of the spring tomorrow afternoon. Check Big Green Alert premium for coverage.

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The temperature could reach the low 70s today and just now I heard the rumble of thunder. Spring is, uh, springing.