With the passing of the annual night game at Harvard Stadium, Ivy League football will now slip into irrelevance for the average Harvard student—at least for another few months until Yale comes to town, and it becomes acceptable to drink before noon.

But for the next nine weeks leading up to the 127th playing of The Game, how can we make Ivy League football more interesting for the typical Cantabridgian?

One solution is to schedule more night games. A greater number of Ancient Eight teams are catching on to this idea, as evidenced by the fact that three Ivy League teams are playing under the lights tomorrow night—including the Crimson, which will play in the first-ever night game held at Brown Stadium.

While night games are one way to draw students away from the library and into the stadium, I have a better solution, one that will turn the average Ivy League nerd into a diehard football junkie: fantasy football for the Ancient Eight.

What better way to drum up interest in football at the Ivy League level than to add a statistical component?

Now that we all agree that “Fantasy Football: Ivy Edition” is going to be the next big thing to hit ESPN.com, let’s start to debate the all-important question of who should be this year’s number one overall draft pick.

After a high-scoring Week 1, several candidates have emerged: three Ivy quarterbacks—Yale’s Patrick Witt, Priceton’s Tommy Wornham, and Harvard’s Andrew Hatch—passed for more than 275 yards and at least one touchdown; three running backs—Dartmouth’s Nick Schwieger, the Bulldog’s Alex Thomas, and Brown’s Zachary Tronti—managed to find the end zone at least twice; and four receivers hauled in more than 100 yards.

Of this group, a couple individuals separated themselves from the pack. Schwieger had perhaps the most impressive individual performance of any Ivy Leaguer in Week 1. The tailback not only scored two touchdowns but also rushed for 216 yards to go along with 57 receiving yards.

With 161 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns in Week 1, Yale’s Thomas also made a strong case for being selected first, but it should be taken into account that he put up those numbers against a weak Georgetown team.

Witt recorded some pretty crazy statistics against the Hoyas himself, passing for 407 yards and two touchdowns to go along with one score on the ground.

Tigers wide receiver Trey Peacock’s name should also be thrown into the mix after he hauled in 196 receiving yards and one touchdown in Princeton’s Week 1 loss to Lehigh.

But before a consensus can be reached on whom to take No. 1, perhaps we need another week to evaluate the field. With that in mind, let’s move onto the predictions for Week 2.

YALE (1-0) AT CORNELL (0-1)

After Bulldogs coach Tom Williams’ sanity was called into question for running a fake punt on fourth and 18 against Harvard in the 2009 season finale, Williams proved he still knows the rules of football last week by leading Yale past Georgetown.

It remains to be seen how much coaching Williams will actually have to do tomorrow against Cornell, a team that won just two games last season.