The Wise Guys Say . . .

The Offshore Wise Guys have spoken and installed Princeton as a nine-point favorite in the Battle of the Unbeatens between the No. 14 Tigers and the No. 20 Big Green Saturday in New Jersey.

Elsewhere, per the OWG:

Penn is a 1.5-point at Cornell
Harvard is a 10-point favorite at home against Columbia
Yale is a 24-point favorite at home against Brown

Holy Cross is a 10.5-point favorite at Lafayette
Sacred Heart is a 24-point favorite at home against Robert Morris

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Massey sees:

Princeton defeating Dartmouth, 31-28, with 58 percent confidence
Cornell knocking off Penn, 24-20, with 62 percent confidence
Harvard holding off Columbia, 21-16, with 65 percent confidence
Yale punishing Brown , 31-7, with 97 percent confidence

Holy Cross over Lafayette , 26-17, with 76 percent confidence
Sacred Heart bowling over Robert Morris, 46-17, with 98 percent confidence

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The Athlon Power Poll has Princeton at No. 14 and Dartmouth on the outside looking in. It ranks the Ivy League sixth among the nation's FCS conferences with the Patriot League at 13 and the Pioneer Football League at the bottom.

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From the Princeton website:

Tickets are available right now for Saturday’s showdown between #20 Dartmouth (7-0, 4-0 Ivy) and #14 Princeton (7-0, 4-0 Ivy), which is set for 1 pm on Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. You can purchase tickets by CLICKING HERE, or by calling the ticket office at 609-258-4TIX (4849). Admission will be free for kids 12 and under, and the first 1,000 fans at Princeton Stadium will receive a free seat cushion.

This is the first time that Princeton has played a November game between two undefeated Ivy League teams since 1993, nearly five full years before the opening of Princeton Stadium. Princeton and Dartmouth are two of the nine Division I teams that are currently undefeated, and two of the four unbeaten programs at the FCS level.

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Check out the football office's Harvard highlight video HERE.

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The Sagarin Ratings
88 Princeton (99)
120 Dartmouth (116)
164 Yale (155)
176 Harvard (180)
194 Columbia (199)
195 Penn (191)
209 Cornell (206)
234 Brown (235)

196 Holy Cross (215)
207 Sacred Heart (213)
232 Georgetown (228)

(255 teams with Mississippi Valley State last)

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One year from now college football will celebrate the 150th anniversary of what is considered the first game ever played, a Rutgers-Princeton match in 1869. Some football fans with a sense of history were clamoring for a rematch between the schools, which are less than 20 miles apart.

They aren't going to play each other next year and that's a shame. And if you are a Princeton fan you are really disappointed they aren't going to play this year ;-)

Princeton is undefeated at 7-0 and ranked No. 88 per Sagarin. Sagarin has Rutgers at No. 141. The 1-7 Scarlet Knights' only win came against 2-6 Texas State.

Princeton has scored 355 points this year and Rutgers 121. Rutgers has given up 270 points and Princeton 64.