On the NCAA site Stan Becton has a column headlined the Way-too-early FCS tiers for every team entering the 2023 season that categorizes every FCS football team by "factoring in last season's success, potential and new, returning and departing talent."
Here's the breakdown and where Dartmouth and its 2023 opponents are classified (LINK):
• THE STEP ABOVE THE REST TIER – 1 team
• THE FRISCO OR BUST TIER – 3 teams
(Frisco is the location of the FCS championship game.)
• THE POTENTIAL-PLAYOFF-SEEDS TIER – 8 teams
New Hampshire
• THE PLAYOFF-CONTENDERS TIER – 18 teams
Princeton
Yale
(Editor's Note: Ivy League schools, as we know all-too well, might be playoff contenders but they are not allowed to be playoff participants.)
• THE GOOD-BUT-NOT-GREAT TIER – 19 teams
Harvard
Penn
• THE UNPROVEN TALENT TIER – 22 teams
Columbia
• THE MEH TIER – 29 teams
Brown
Cornell
Dartmouth
• THE BOTTOM TIER – 27 teams
Colgate
Lehigh
Green Alert Take: Am I the only one who finds it surprising the NCAA veers into opinions on the quality of football programs?
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Dartmouth football has started a series featuring graphics of the incoming freshman recruits. Here's the first in the series with hometowns, high schools, height and weight added below the graphics.
Gotta run. Our closest neighbor up the hill is having a barn erected and I can see a huge crane towering over the back of his house where the building is going up. It's not as interesting as if he had a bunch of Amish come down from their growing enclave in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom do a barn raising, but the little boy in me has to check out the crane doing the heavy lifting on the post-and-beam barn being erected.