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HERO Sports has an entry listing confirmed "payouts" by FBS schools to visiting FCS opponents. (LINK) Here are a few of those numbers of regional interest:

New Hampshire at Syracuse     $550,000

Villanova at Louisville                 $500,000

Maine at Boston College         $400,000

CCSU at Toledo                         $325,000

Lafayette at UConn                 $300,000

Sacred Heart at UMass             $250,000

As for 2026 Dartmouth opponents, Merrimack will play FBS games at Wake Forest and at Delaware, but the payout is not yet public for those contests. Ditto for Monmouth at Western Michigan. Lehigh does not have an FBS game this year.

Not surprisingly, no Ivy League team is playing a payout game.

Green Alert Take: UMass is paying Sacred Heart $250,000 for visiting Amherst this fall. How sweet would it be for Dartmouth players to have the opportunity to test themselves right down the road against an FBS team like that (with very good chance of coming away with a win), and the college banking a cool quarter of a million dollars for the privilege? Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle is on record as favoring the opportunity for his team to have the chance to play an occasional FBS game.

 Here's what we know so far of the non-conference schedule for Ivy League teams this fall:

BROWN

at New Haven

at Rhode Island

Bryant

COLUMBIA

Lafayette

at Georgetown

at Marist

CORNELL

at Colgate

at Georgetown

Lehigh

HARVARD

at New Hampshire

Colgate

Holy Cross

PENN

at Bucknell

Lehigh

TBA

PRINCETON

at Bryant

Albany

at Wagner

YALE

at Holy Cross

TBA

Rhode Island

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Middlebury College has a blurb about bringing in Darren Shoyer as its associate equipment manager. Shoyer spent last fall working in the Dartmouth equipment program, including with football. (LINK)

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Yale formally introduced Kevin Cahill as its next head football coach yesterday:

Dartmouth will face three new head coaches this fall in Cahill, Monmouth's Jeff Gallo, and Lehigh's Rich Nagy, who was promoted yesterday from defensive coordinator to replace the departed Cahill. Read about Nagy HERE.

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From an Opta Analyst posting headlined FCS Schools With the Most NFL Players by Position in the 2020s Decade (LINK):

The story notes that Harvard is tied for second among FCS programs both with four offensive linemen making it to the NFL in some capacity, and with two players in the running back/fullback category.

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