Following up on yesterday's listing of who Ivy League teams are playing out-of-conference this fall, today we take a look at FBS games on tap for the Big Green's three non-conference opponents in 2025:
• New Hampshire will play at Ball State in its third game of the season on Sept 13, one week before visiting Dartmouth. The Big Green's season-opener will be UNH's fourth game.
• Central Connecticut kicks off its season Aug. 30 with a short trip to UConn. Dartmouth's Week Two game in New Britain on Sept. 27 will be the Blue Devils' fifth of the season.
• Fordham opens its season Aug. 30 at Boston College. The Rams will have a bye week before Dartmouth comes to The Bronx on Oct. 18.
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The video below comes with this explanation, which may – or may not – ring true:
When The Ivy League initially signed a television deal with ESPN in 1988, the relationship between the two sides was on rocky ground. However, in 1989, ESPN attempted to fix this with a proposal designed to give The Ivy League more television exposure. The end result was a disaster, with The Ivy League bashing ESPN, and with the relationship between the two sides being beyond repair. This is the story behind the drama between ESPN and the Ivy League at the end of the 1980s
The video goes on for a bit but there's interesting background as well as some clips from "back in the day." Hit the "skip" link to get into the video a little quicker.
Yes, this shot from the Calgary Stampeders website shows Flo Orimolade '17, the former Ivy League defensive player of the year wearing not just No. 7, but a cowboy hat at a press conference where he spoke this week about being traded back to the Stamps. Click HERE to hear what he had to say.
EXTRA POINT
We're having full sun for the third consecutive day and that's a good thing when you own Chevy and Hyundai EVs, and an electric lawn tractor that has to remain plugged in all winter. Although the large solar tracker we installed in our field a few years ago is incredibly efficient at turning and tilting to squeeze the most juice it can out of the sun, it's not a miracle worker. It can do only so much when the days are as short as they are in the winter and the sky is as overcast as it has been the past month or so.
