Game Day

Penn squeezed past Princeton last night as sophomore quarterback Keiffer Garton went 16-for-21 for 132 yards with a couple of touchdown passes in his first career start. He also ran 15 times for 89 yards. Find a game story here and the box score here.

Dave Coulson of The Sports Network came away very impressed by the new Penn qb:

But Garton announced himself as the next great quarterback in the Quakers' storied football history, rushing, passing and leading Penn to a 14-9 victory before 8,966 fans at Princeton Stadium.

Penn coach Al Bagnoli has won 199 games and six Ivy League championships in his 17 years as the Quakers' helm, but he had never seen a win quite like this.

"This is unbelievable," said Bagnoli. "He plays 20 plays last week and it's like we're confident with him at quarterback. Keiffer just has a way of carrying himself and it rubs off on everyone else."

Garton looked more like an Armanti Edwards, or a Rodney Landers, as he rushed for 89 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries and cooly completed 16-of-21 passes for one TD and just one interception, than an inexperienced player.

The Dartmouth website has quick profiles on three senior players:

Hudson Smythe
Phil Galligan
Brian Scullin

For an interesting and informative look at reforms in the Patriot League Academic Index, with specific attention to how it will work in football admissions, check out this posting on the Lehigh Football Nation blog. The writer sat with the Patriot League commissioner and got the straight story about the changes, including the abandonment of class ranking in the AI formula and the introduction of a banding system.

From the post:

The new system looks and feels a lot like the Ivy League system. The numbers are different - the computed AI for the Ivy League is different from that of the Patriot League - but functionally, with its use of bands, it's extremely similar.

Should Colgate be called Running Back U? The Utica Dispatch asks the question with a talented freshman stepping right in for Jordan Scott. A glimmer of hope for everyone they play next fall: All but one starter on the offensive line is a senior.