Game Week

Colgate's Football Game Day Central now reflects Saturday's game at Dartmouth. There's nothing up – yet – but it's a reminder that it's "game on." Check the site during the week.

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Not only was there a story detailing Yale's preseason scrimmage against Dean College on the Portal 31 blog, but the official Yale website actually had a story that included stats here. Imagine that ;-)

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Is Brown "Wide Receiver U?" The Bears' top receiver calls it that in a story in the Brown Daily Herald.

Speaking of which, the receiver in question, Alex Tounkara, is referred to as Alex Tounkara-Kone in the story. Best of luck to the Brown announcer who will likely be saying this quite a few times this season: Completion from Kyle Newhall-Caballero to Alex Tounkara-Kone. For variety he might want to occasionally say, "That was Alex Tounkara-Kone from Kyle Newhall-Caballero."

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Brown coach Phil Estes in a story about football safety, as quoted in the Providence Journal:

"We need to make the game safer, or there won't be football and I won't have a job. There will be football and it will be called soccer."

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Should have mentioned this yesterday but 2010 Dartmouth opponent Bucknell improved to 2-0 with a 28-14 win over Marist Saturday. (link) With an opening win over Duquesne the Bison haven't exactly played the toughest schedule but hey, 2-0 is 2-0 and that's one more win than they had last year. They will be at Cornell Saturday.

Speaking of which, call up the Cornell website and a Homecoming schedule of events pops right up. It's another little example of the pedal being to the metal in Ithaca.

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The Sagarin Ratings have been updated and it's always kind of interesting to see what has happened to Ivy League teams – even when they haven't played. Here are the ratings for this week with last week's rating in parentheses:

117. Penn (121)
128. Harvard (129)
163. Brown (160)
166. Yale (164)
200. Dartmouth (199)
204. Columbia (202)
218. Princeton ( 219)
223. Cornell( 221)

Non-League Opponents
141. Holy Cross (178)
175. Colgate (149)
237. Sacred Heart (237)

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This is beautiful. From ESPN:

The final score of USC's win over Utah at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum has officially been changed from 17-14 to 23-14 after the Pac-12 Conference and USC worked to review a game-ending penalty call, a school spokesperson said Saturday.

Two thoughts. How do you think that played in Las Vegas, where it changed winners to losers and losers to winners? I'm not a betting person but those who follow these things might find a story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal interesting.

A second thought. Here's the above sentence with italics added that you need to think about:

The final score of USC's win over Utah at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum has officially been changed from 17-14 to 23-14 after the Pac-12 Conference and USC worked to review a game-ending penalty call, a school spokesperson said Saturday.

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A couple of Green Alert Premium notes today. First, be sure to check in tonight for some reactions to whatever took place on Memorial Field Friday afternoon. ;-)

And second, the first of a three-part BGA podcast will be posted tonight. Part One will focus on the Dartmouth offense. Part Two tomorrow will focus on the defense. And Part Three on Wednesday will take a look at Dartmouth's opponents and offer predictions on how the Ivy League race will shake out. Each segment runs about 11 minutes.

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