* The Big Green will open at home against Central Connecticut at 7 p.m., as of this writing the only night game of the year. But stay tuned . . .
* The next week's game at New Hampshire is one of the TBA's, but the guess here is that if the UNH lights are ready to go, that one will probably be at night. Again, that's a guess, but an "informed" one ;-)
* The Ivy League season kicks off in Week Three with a 1:30 game against Penn at Memorial Field.
* Dartmouth will have an early wakeup call on Oct. 11 with a noon start at Yale.
* On Oct. 18 it's 1:30 again for the Homecoming matchup with Holy Cross.
* The Columbia game the next week is the final TBA.
* Dartmouth and Harvard, which have played recently under the lights will be back to the traditional 1:30 start in Hanover on Nov. 1.
* The game at Cornell is set for 12:30 on Nov. 8, a start time much appreciated by everyone who has to make the long drive back from Ithaca.
* The Big Green will close out its home slate against Brown the next week at the regular 1:30 Memorial Field time slot.
* The season will wrap up at Princeton on Nov. 22 starting at 1 p.m.
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Harvard's Zach Hodges is the lone Ivy Leaguer on The Sports Network's preseason watch list for the Buchanan Award, emblematic of the top defensive player in the FCS. Find bios for Hodges and the 20 players on the list HERE.
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Thanks to a BGA regular who shared a link to a Business Insider story about great college traditions.Dartmouth's Winter Carnival is one of the featured traditions along with Dragon Day at Cornell and The Game (although I think if you were playing a game of which doesn't belong, the finger would be pointed at a game).
Penn State's Thon dance marathon gets a writeup as do more unusual traditions like the Rotblatt softball game at Carleton College.
But while I have soft spots for Winter Carnival and Thon, the Little 500 at Indiana might top my list. Might be because I enjoyed the 1979 movie built around it, BREAKING AWAY.
