Wednesday, October 01, 2025

How They See It

Dartmouth-Central Connecticut highlights as seen from above:

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Current Sagarin ranking of Ivy League teams followed in parentheses by their ranking last week. A total of 265 Division I programs are ranked.

Sagarin Ratings

110 Harvard (119)

136 Yale (126)

147 Dartmouth (142)

180 Princeton (219) 

188 Penn (179)

203 Brown (187)

206 Columbia (229)

222 Cornell (234)


149 New Hampshire

227 Central Connecticut

249 Fordham

265 Stetson

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Massey is another computer-driven ranking system. 

The Massey Ratings

15 Yale

17 Harvard

26 Dartmouth 

62 Princeton 

65 Penn 

69 Columbia 

71 Brown 

89 Cornell 

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Sagarin Ratings

Dartmouth is a 3-point favorite at Penn.


Massey Ratings

Dartmouth 27, Penn  24 final with 58 percent confidence.

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Here's how FanDuel sees the weekend:

Dartmouth is a 5½ point favorite at Penn

Princeton  is a 9½ point home favorite over Columbia

Harvard  is a 17½ point favorite at Holy Cross

Brown is a 14½ point underdog at home against Rhode Island

Yale is a 3½ point underdog at Lehigh

Cornell is a 5½ point home underdog against Colgate 

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Massey Dartmouth Season Prediction (after two weeks)

Yale 30, Dartmouth 27 (57 percent confidence)

Dartmouth  34, Fordham 24 (74 percent)

Dartmouth  27, Columbia 17 (78 percent)

Harvard 28, Dartmouth 21 (71 percent)

Dartmouth 31, Princeton 24 (68 percent)

Dartmouth 31, Cornell 21 (77 percent)

Dartmouth 31, Brown 24 (65 percent)

Massey Ivy League Standings Prediction (after two weeks)

Yale 7-0

2 Harvard 6-1

3 Dartmouth 5-2

4 Penn 3-4

4 Princeton 3-4

6 Cornell 2-5

6 Columbia 2-5

8 Brown 0-7

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EXTRA POINT

On our way home in the VW poptop camper yesterday we passed a church just north of here with one of those plastic signs out front. The sign read simply:

Pray For Rain

How serious is the drought? The Lebanon city website has a new brief under a headline reading Wildfire Response Helicopter at Lebanon Municipal Airport. From that posting (LINK):

The U.S. Forest Service has temporarily positioned a CH-54A Tarhe helicopter at Lebanon Municipal Airport to improve response times to potential wildfires in drought-stressed National Forest lands in New Hampshire and Vermont. 

And . . .

Nearby residents may notice intermittent flight activity, including low-level approaches and departures, as well as occasional trips to local water sources if bucket operations are employed.