The Bulldogs go back to New Haven for the first time in almost month. Last week, quarterback Patrick Witt completed just two passes, but when your running back goes for 230 yards, it doesn’t really matter.
Like Harvard, Yale adjusted its game plan around the weather. Don’t count on the Bulldogs relying too much on the run again—unless, of course, New England gets hit with another freak snowstorm.
The title implications of this game can’t be overstated. This winner stays alive; the loser is all but eliminated.
Prediction: Yale 17, Brown 16
PRINCETON (1-3, 1-6 Ivy) at PENN (4-3, 3-1)
Penn suffered its first league loss of the season last week, but it was hardly its first lackluster game.
In the Quakers’ three earlier Ivy wins, Penn escaped only with fourth-quarter comebacks. That sort of luck catches up to you eventually, and Brown finally ended the Quakers’ long Ancient Eight win streak.
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t expect this game to be too close, but I have reservations. For one, Penn was tied with Columbia into the fourth quarter, a game that demonstrated the team’s vulnerability. The other is what I’ve seen from Princeton this year. Yes, a 1-6 record is hardly impressive, but in the third quarter of the Tigers’ game against the Crimson, Princeton proved that it could be an offensive threat.
Even so, I can’t imagine Penn losing to the Tigers. That would send the league into all kinds of chaos.
Prediction: Penn 28, Princeton 20
CORNELL (3-4, 1-3 Ivy) at DARTMOUTH (2-5, 1-3 Ivy)
Dartmouth is like that one drunk friend everyone has. I mean, sure, he’s a cool guy, but it’s always an interesting experience when you go drinking together.
Sometimes, he’s chill and one of those friendly drunks. But other times, he’s a sloppy mess, throwing himself at anything and anyone and hardly able to control any of his own actions.
Like your inebriated buddy, the Big Green is erratic and tough to predict. The team has certainly had its ups—a 37-0 win over Columbia proves that—but Dartmouth has taken its share of beatings as well.
In early October, the Bulldogs shut out the Big Green, and Dartmouth looked consistently outplayed on all fronts against Harvard last week.
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