Time For Some Trickeration?

Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens' history against Columbia has Jake Novak, the color commentator for the Lions' radio broadcasts, a little nervous. Under the headline "What Will Buddy Do?" on his Roar Lions Roar blog, Jake writes :

Buddy T. has never lost to Columbia in any of the eight times he's faced the Lions in his two tenures as head coach in Hanover. That alone would be disturbing enough, but the fact is that by my count, most of those wins were the direct result of Teevens excellent gameday coaching featuring some tricky strategy.

Message boards, shmessage boards, but someone over at Any Given Saturday is saying what a lot of people are probably thinking regarding the Dartmouth-Columbia battle of winless teams that will be carried on Versus television starting at 4 p.m:

"And this game is on national television?!?!?"

The weekly Sagarin Ratings for all of Division I football are in and they look like this:

• 100. New Hampshire
• 129. Harvard
• 159. Holy Cross
• 161. Brown
• 162. Colgate
• 169. Penn
• 175. Cornell
• 191. Princeton
• 217. Columbia
• 222. Dartmouth

Sagarin has Columbia a 5-point favorite Saturday.

The venerable Dunkel Index of FCS teams is out and Dartmouth and its opponents stand like this:

• 16. UNH
• 24. Harvard
• 32. Holy Cross
• 35. Yale
• 38. Colgate
• 39. Brown
• 51. Penn
• 77. Cornell
• 80. Princeton
• 84. Columbia
• 93. Dartmouth

Dartmouth and overall Ivy League statistics can be found all over the web. Statistics for the Ivy teams in league games only are a little harder to come by. Find them here.

Opponents on this week's Sports Network poll:

• 10. UNH
• 25. Harvard
• 33. Cogate
• 48 (t) Holy Cross
• 48 (t) Penn

Opponents on this week's Coaches poll:

• 10. UNH
• 29. Harvard
• 40. Colgate
• 43. Brown

And finally, if you missed the story I wrote on senior tailback Milan Williams for the Dartmouth football program against Yale, find it here.