Gearing Up For a Colorful GAme

Kudos to Cornell (alliteration is good) for getting its game notes for Saturday's contest at Dartmouth posted this early. Find the release here and the full PDF packet here in advance of the game between the Green and the Red.

I stumbled across a page appropriately called Stats Overload that allows you pit one team's statistics against another's. Find the Dartmouth-Cornell comparison here. The final analysis on the page says, "Dartmouth down to Cornell, 18-33." I'm not really sure what that means because there's no explanation but I'll assume (perhaps incorrectly) that it is predicting a 33-18 Cornell win. Whatever it means, the page is kind of fun.

You can also pit one player against another. Dartmouth's Nick Schwieger is hurt, but Stats Overload gives him a 5-0 advantage over Cornell's Randy Barbour. Again, your guess is as good as mine ...

The latest Gridiron Power Index numbers are out and this is the one to pay attention to because it tosses all the various rankings, ratings and polls together to come up with a single ranking. This week's GPI for Ivy League teams looks like this:

30. Penn (28.38)
44. Harvard (36.75)
51. Brown (41.50)
63. Yale (48.88)
74. Columbia (56.50)
87. Dartmouth (63.88)
96. Cornell (70.00)
106. Princeton (73.25)

There are 125 schools rated.

Speaking of ratings and rankings, FCS Richmond is the third school from the subdivision to earn votes in the big-boy poll. The Sports Network shares background on that and a lot more, including Penn becoming the first NCAA school to play 1,300 football games.

Princeton's Tigerblog has a story about Jordan Culbreath being able to attend the Tigers' game last Saturday. From the story:

His presence on the sideline, in the locker room and at midfield for the coin toss clearly helped inspire Princeton, who snapped a four-game losing streak with a 17-13 win.

When Columbia and Yale squared off last week there were black head coaches on both sidelines. There's a story about that here. Columbia's Norries Wilson said:

That's more of something for our kids to talk about when they grow up. They don't put in the paper, 'The black coach won.' They put in the paper, 'Yale won.'

Thanks to a regular reader for a link to a very interesting blog posting on Georgetown football headlined, "Rebuilding a Winning Culture." While Dartmouth gets mentioned in the piece ("Georgetown's woes appear to parallel that of Dartmouth, whose winning days of football seem as remote as its Indian mascot of yore.") there's good stuff under the subheadings, Leadership, Tradition, Facilities, Training, Quarterback, Scheduling, A Star, Leadership Development, Publicity and Win.