Odds and ends about Dartmouth's 2026 football schedule:
• With each Ivy League team playing seven conference games, teams have four conference home games one year, and three the next. Dartmouth is home for three Ivy games this year (Penn Harvard, Brown), and four on the road (Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell).
• Home-Away Ivy League schedules this fall:
• Brown 4 home, 3 away
• Columbia 4 home, 3 away
• Cornell 4 home, 3 away
• Dartmouth 3 home, 4 away
• Harvard 2 home, four away, 1 neutral
• Penn 3 home, 4 away
• Princeton 4 home, 3 away
• Yale 3 home, 3 away, 1 neutral
• As has been the case in every even-numbered year since the Ivy League schedule was adjusted ahead of the 2018 season, the Big Green will play back-to-back road games at Princeton and Cornell before finishing the season at home against Brown.
• This was posted earlier, but here are the round-trip distances for the Big Green this fall: Lehigh 710 miles, Princeton 630, Cornell 594, Columbia 520, and Yale 378. Dartmouth will travel 1,224 miles in weeks eight and nine combined. That's a total of 2,832 miles.
• Dartmouth opens the season with a rare game on the real stuff – grass. Lehigh will be the Big Green's first game not on artificial turf since Oct. 5, 2018 at Yale. The Yale Bowl put in artificial turf before the next season.
• Only two of 10 Dartmouth opponents are on the road before facing the Big Green. All but Monmouth and Columbia are home the week before playing Dartmouth.
• Merrimack has a bye the week before playing at Dartmouth.
Here's the full list of who Big Green opponents play the week before Dartmouth plays them:
Sept. 19 at Lehigh (vs. William & Mary)
Sept. 26 Monmouth (at Albany)
Oct. 3 Penn (vs. Lehigh)
Oct. 10 at Yale (vs. Merrimack)
Oct. 17 Merrimack (bye)
Oct. 24 at Columbia (at Penn)
Oct. 31 Harvard (vs. Princeton)
Nov. 7 at Princeton (vs. Cornell)
Nov. 14 at Cornell (vs. Penn)
Nov. 21 Brown (vs. Columbia)
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Dartmouth has an offer out to a Georgia wide receiver named Folefac Wrightnick Atabonglefac. He also has offers from Princeton, Penn and Brown. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: Thank goodness for copy and paste.
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EXTRA POINTWith clear skies this morning I've put a somewhat-yellowed baseball hat out on our front steps, which receive sunlight all day long. The hope is the sun will help bleach the hat. It may be beyond saving but I have another one that I left in the sun for a few weeks that actually turned out OK. Time will tell.
