The Massey Ratings ahead of the 2023 season are out and you might want to rethink putting your life savings behind a site that has Cornell sweeping a doubleheader on Sept. 30, defeating Colgate, 27-24, and then dominating down at the Alderson-Broaddus in West Virginia, 45-3. (For the record, that game against the Battlers is on the Big Red's lightweight schedule. How it got on the Massey sked is anybody's guess.)
All that said, here's how Massey sees the Ivy League season playing out (sans the Big Red's ABU game):
Princeton 7-0, 10-0
Yale 6-1, 9-1
Harvard 5-2, 7-3
Dartmouth 4-3, 6-4
Penn 3-4, 6-4
Columbia 2-5, 5-5
Cornell 1-6, 4-6
Brown 0-7, 1-9
And here's where Massey ranks Dartmouth and the Big Green in all of the FCS:
31 - Princeton
35 - Yale
40 - Harvard
44 - Dartmouth
59 - Penn
69 - Columbia
87 - Cornell
96 - Brown
42 - New Hampshire
88 - Colgate
99 - Lehigh
The Bulls lost their main tight end Robbie Mangas (who is now on staff as an offensive analyst) and Trevor Borland, so they did additional restocking in the portal by getting Dartmouth transfer Zion Carter. The 6’6”, 265 pound tight end only caught one pass in the Ivy League last year, but he made his mark as a blocker.
Mangas, of course, was a grad transfer from Dartmouth, where he served as a captain.
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The local Valley News features a sweet story by Tris Wykes headlined, Joyce Conroy; ‘She was the eternal hostess’ that details the life of the wife of onetime Dartmouth lineman Pete "Cube" Conroy '56 and sons Brian '86 and Michael '89, who both played for the Big Green.
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EXTRA POINT
The roofers are here.
It feels as if that should be followed up with a funny line like from the Aunt Sophie "expired, expired" Geico commercial. I was at my standing desk and looked up only to lock eyes with an equally surprised roofer. Now there is non-stop scraping along with footsteps and pounding above my head here on the second floor and shingles flying past the window on their way to the ground.
I can't come close to concentrating. Time to head to the library.
