The Weekend Outlook

Here's how Massey Ratings sees the Ivy League weekend playing out:

at Yale 24, Dartmouth 21 with 57 percent confidence that Yale will win
Harvard 23, at Cornell with 53 percent confidence in Harvard winning
at Princeton 48, Lehigh 21 with 97 percent confidence in Princeton winning
Penn 28 at Sacred Heart 21 with 70 percent confidence in Penn winning
at Columbia 37, Marist 7 with 99 percent confidence in Columbia winning
at Rhode Island 42, Brown 17 with 96 percent confidence in URI winning

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From a gambling site's Dartmouth capsule:

Cooper Rashaad leads the way with 194 yards and one touchdown. Defensively, Dartmouth is allowing 9.3 points and 188.3 yards per game. Jack Traynor leads the Dartmouth Big Green with 19 tackles, Perry Jackson has two sacks and Isiah Swann has four interceptions.

Wonder if Traynor Jack and Swann Isiah think the site has it backwards?

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For a story I freelanced for the weekly Dartmouth game program on Big Green defensive lineman Seth Simmer and his road back to football from a serious medical issue, CLICK HERE.

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Yale's game notes have been posted HERE.

A Yale Daily News story about the Bulldogs' reliance on their receivers because of injuries to running backs notes that receiver JP Shohfi "racked up a national record–setting 2,464 yards in his senior campaign and a slew of honors in a competitive state," but wasn't offered by any FBS schools. From the story:

Recruiting analysts throughout the country noticed the snub, especially after a Sports Illustrated article questioned the outcome of Shohfi’s recruiting season and claimed that Shohfi was one of the best players at his position in the history of high school football.

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Penn football is headed to China. From a Penn release:

The Quakers will hold a week of their 2019 spring practices in China from March 2-9 during the University's spring break, culminating in the 2019 Penn-China Global Ambassadors Bowl in Shanghai on March 8 against the American Football League of China (AFLC) All-Stars.

And . . .

The Quakers will fly from Newark to Beijing on March 2 before traveling to Shanghai on March 6 and returning to the States on March 9. While in China, the Quakers will hold multiple spring practices, hold clinics for youths and young adults, and sightsee before the Penn-China Global Ambassadors Bowl.