Lost in the muddy Saturday of the Harvard football team's loss to Princeton was the upset of the Ivy League season so far:

Cornell topped Dartmouth, 26-16.

This was a Shocker. Sure, Cornell was good, but Dartmouth...Dartmouth was a juggernaut. Dartmouth was going all the way to its show-down with Princeton undefeated.

Big Green superquarterback junior Jay Fiedler has a higher QB rating than Joe Montana did in 1990. The defense is tough. The offense is tougher.

But scratch that record now.

Cornell tailback senior Scott Oliaro ran for 135 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as the Big Red ended the Big Green's 15-game unbeaten streak in the Ivy League.

How poetic. Red vs. Green. Stop vs. Go. Danger vs. All Clear.

Dartmouth (4-2 overall, 2-1 Ivy) had not lost a league game since a 16-6 loss to Pennsylvania in the opening week of the 1990 season. It was the fifth straight win for Cornell (5-1, 2-1 Ivy).

"This is the biggest win since I've been here," said third-year Cornell Coach Jim Hofher. Dartmouth was the only Ivy League team Cornell had not beaten under Hofher.

The loss ruined a strong performance by Dartmouth senior Matt Brzica, who caught eight passes for 151 yards and one touchdown in a driving rainstorm. Fielder completed 15 of 24 passes for 231 yards and a touchdown, but also had three passes intercepted.

Cornell linebacker senior Chris Zingo led Cornell's defense with 15 tackles, a blocked punt and a fumble recovery. For this, he was named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for the third straight time.

But let the record show that it took a driving rainstorm to slow down the Fiedler Express.

"The rain made it difficult for us to do anything," Dartmouth Coach John Lyon said. "Especially once they got the lead."

Lyon isn't happy. His loss transformed the two-team race for the Ancient Eight crown into a five-team race: Princeton is 3-0-0, while Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn and Yale are tied at 2-1-0.

Still, none of those teams have the class of Princeton or Dartmouth. Put your money on the Ivy title going to the winner of the Tiger-Big Green clash on November 21 in Princeton.