HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth football team released its schedules through the 2024 season today, including the recently announced renewal of the series against New Hampshire.
Next year the Big Green will travel to Pioneer Football League schools Jacksonville and Marist while playing host to Colgate (Sept. 28), which advanced to the quarterfinals of the FCS playoffs this year. The usual Ivy League slate will be highlighted by the game against 2018 conference champion Princeton at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 9 as part of the 150th anniversary of college football and the 250th anniversary celebration of Dartmouth College.
Both Jacksonville and Marist will play return games in Hanover in 2020, while the Big Green will head down to Baltimore to play at Towson, a team that Dartmouth defeated in the initial meeting in 2016, 20-17, and that also participated in the 2018 FCS Playoffs.
In 2021, the Green will rekindle their rivlary with New Hampshire in Durham for the fifth game of the season, while also playing host to Sacred Heart and opening the season with a trip to Valparaiso. The following year, those three schools are on the slate once again in return trips.
New Hampshire will be the Big Green opponent in the 2023 season opener, followed by a home game against Lehigh and a road contest at Colgate in week five. While the Wildcats had a 14-year streak of making the FCS Playoffs end this past fall, the Mountain Hawks had advanced to the playoffs twice in the past three seasons and the Red Raiders have been to the quarterfinals not only in 2018, but three years earlier as well.
In 2024, the matchup at Army West Point will take place, just the third FBS opponent for Dartmouth since Division I split into two football classifications in 1978. The game, originally scheduled for the 2022 season, is the first against an FBS team for the Big Green since a 45-0 defeat against Navy in 1986. Dartmouth also played the Black Knights in 1983, falling by a single point, 13-12.
The other non-conference opponents on tap in 2024 are Fordham to open the season and Central Connecticut State in week five, both to take place at Memorial Field.