With 75 days remaining until the first Dartmouth game at New Hampshire on Sept. 16, it's a good time to look back at what two prominent ranking services thought of the Big Green and this year's non-league opponents after last season.
2022 Sagarin Ratings
(among all of DI)
152 - Yale (8-2)
155 - Princeton (8-2)
164 - Harvard (6-4)
174 - Penn (8-2)
182 - Dartmouth (3-7)
189 - Columbia (6-4
211 - Cornell (5-5)
226 - Brown (3-7)
168 - New Hampshire (9-4)
223 - Colgate 3-8)
236 - Lehigh (2-9)2022 Massey Ratings
(among FCS only)
25 - Yale
28 - Princeton
37 - Penn
43 - Harvard
56 - Columbia
68 - Dartmouth
70 - Cornell
91 - Brown24 - New Hampshire
97 - Colgate
110 - Lehigh
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Jake Novak, who pulls together the Roar Lions Columbia football blog, puts his a background in TV and radio to good use in a five-minute audio clip discussing the 2023 Ivy League football race, with special attention paid to the surfeit of standout quarterbacks returning this fall. Click HERE for Jake's take.
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It didn't take long for Dartmouth alum Flo Orimolade '17 to earn his teammates' respect on the field as well as off it. The former Bushnell winner as the Ivy League's defensive player of the year has been elected to the Canadian Football League Players Association's Board of Player Representatives in his first season with the Toronto Argonauts. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
We braved the occasional sprinkle last night to go to the Fairlee Drive-In, an easy 17 miles north of campus off I-91 to catch a showing of the new Indiana Jones flick Dial of Destiny.
I have to admit for as much as I enjoyed the earlier movies about Indy, the chase scenes (and there were a lot of them in various vehicles) went on way too long. It might also help to read a synopsis of the story before seeing the film and I kind of wish the film had been lit better. (Maybe it was tough to see all the detail because it was a drive-in theater.)
For the record, we did not stick around for the second half of the double feature, Guardians of the Galaxy. It's not something we would have watched anyway, but it certainly didn't help that the Harrison Ford & Co. flick didn't finish until 11:40 p.m.
All that said, I'd highly recommend Dartmouth students in town this summer catch a show at Fairlee, if only for the dancing hot dog commercial and video National Anthem that precede the first film and to get a taste of Americana from before they were born.
