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June 22, 2026 · Dead Period · Heritage Window · 2026 Outlook

Dartmouth Big Green

7-3 2025 final

Dartmouth football leads the Ivy League with 22 conference championships and played the first intercollegiate game (1881 vs Amherst) — a program that has built excellence in the mountains of New Hampshire and refuses to leave.

The Big Green keep the faith.

Record
7-3
win% .700
FCS Top 25
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Conf Standing
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Playoff Path
Building résumé
Dead PeriodOffseasonPatientPost-loss — reckoning
The Long Wait·Offseason

Dartmouth football leads the Ivy League with 22 conference championships and played the first intercollegiate game (1881 vs Amherst) — a program that has built excellence in the mountains of New Hampshire and refuses to leave.

Standard Gap22 Ivy League titles (the most of any Ivy program), the 1925 national ch…

Under coach Sammy McCorkle (named 2023 Ivy Coach of the Year), Dartmouth returned to excellence after the tragic loss of Buddy Teevens in September 2023. The 2024 team finished 8–2 and shared the Ivy League championship, proof tha…

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Offseason

69 days

until kickoff · Sun Aug 30 · 17:00 UTC

Act I

The 2026 Outlook

The Pulse on Dartmouth Big Green

Quiet · dead period heritage · signal ramps back in camp
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The Big Green keep the faith.

What moved it — offseason · last 30 days

June Dead-period quiet — official-visit + heritage window —
Camp Fall camp ~40 days out
"Go Dartmouth" — Dartmouth Big Green fanbase · recurring line
9 mentions · awaiting signal

Aspiration Ladder

Brief Part III §33.4 · Dartmouth Big Green

Winning record—

The season's first milestone.

Conference title race—

Competitive for the conference crown.

Playoff bidLocked—

24-team bracket qualifier — realistic in a strong year.

Championship gameLocked—

The FCS championship weekend. A generational leap.

Dartmouth Big Green · Next-Season Outcome Band

Floor / Base / Ceiling

floor5-7Sub-.500 season. Playoff bid out of reach.
base7-5Mid-table finish. Conference title a stretch.
ceiling10-2Conference title + deep playoff run.

Variance assumed at ±2 wins from last-season record. Replace with the season-path projection once preview data is built.

Act II

Who We Are

FCS Program Prestige · Dartmouth Big Green

Blue Blood

Blue Blood — generational elite. The standard the sport measures itself against.

T1Regional
T2Mid-Major
T3Power
T4National
T5Blue Blood
T6Dynasty
T7All-Time

Fanbase Health Index · Dartmouth Big Green · medium confidence

Growing (59)

DecliningStableGrowingSurging
On-Field — 7-3 (70% win rate)68
Volume — 9 effective signal-N49

Home-Field Advantage · Dartmouth Big Green · 2018-present

Strong

76% home win rate vs 56% on the road. margin runs +8.8 better at home.

Home19-6Away14-11
Act III

Last Season Reviewed

2025 season · tap to expand

Recent Form · last 10 games

Mixed

Three of five. Trending up, not yet hot.

Streak L1Last 5 · 3-2Last 10 · 7-3

Ivy Standing · 2025

3rd in the Ivy

Dartmouth Big Green is 3rd in the Ivy at 7-3. 2 teams above — that's the direct path to the title game.

#ProgramRecord
1Harvard9-2
2Yale9-3
3Dartmouth7-3
4Pennsylvania6-4
5Brown5-5
6Cornell4-6
7Princeton3-7
8Columbia2-8

Schedule Strength · Dartmouth Big Green · 2025

Balanced

Average opponent win rate 48% across 10 finalized games. No top-25 opponents, but mid-tier slate kept the schedule honest.

Opp Win %0.488
Top-250
Top-100

Moment of the Year · Dartmouth Big Green · 2025

Won 30-13 at Fordham

Week 8 of 2025. The single game that defined the season's arc.

Decisive Margin

From the Archive — Dartmouth Big Green

2023: Lost 9-17 at Harvard

In 2023, the program lost 9-17 at Harvard — a one-score road result, 8 points either way.

Go Big Green.