Surprise!

Here's something that may surprise you: Dartmouth currently has the fifth-longest winning streak in the Football Championship Subdivision. The top current streaks:

1. Harvard - 10
2. North Dakota State - 7
3. McNeese State - 6
3. Delaware - 6
5. Dartmouth - 4
6. 11 tied with 3

Dartmouth's win streak:

Nov. 5 defeated Cornell 33-24
Nov. 12 won at Brown 21-16
Nov. 19 defeated Princeton 24-17
Sept. 15 defeated Butler, 35-7

Harvard's last loss? Sept. 17, 2011 at Holy Cross, 30-22.

Current Ivy League win streaks:

Harvard 10
Dartmouth 4
Columbia 2
Brown 1
Yale 1
current win streak link

Current Ivy League losing streaks:

Princeton 8
Penn 3
Cornell 1
current losing streak link

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The Columbia Spectator has a good capsule roundup of last Saturday's Ivy League games.

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Three Ivy teams garnered votes in The Sports Network FCS Top 25 College Football Poll

28. Harvard
49. Yale
53. Brown

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Harvard's Treavor Scales, who carried 19 times for 173 yards and two fourth-quarter touchdowns – including a 66-yard burst for the insurance score – is a College Sporting News National All-Star for his performance against defending Pioneer Football League champion San Diego.

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The Ivy League's weekly release points out that one game into his junior year Dartmouth tailback Dominick Pierre needs just 86 more yards to become the 25th Big Green player to reach 1,000 rushing yards in his career. Pierre had 170 yards in Saturday's win over Butler.

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After five interceptions last week, should Billy Ragone keep his job as Penn's starting quarterback? Two Daily Pennsylvanian columnists bat the question around.

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The Portal 31 blog offers up "five things we learned" from Yale's win at Georgetown including that tailback Tyler Varga "is for real." The Canadian ran for 103 yards in his American college debut.

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And finally, with several of former coach Roger Hughes' old recruits slimmed down enough to play in the lightweight version of the game, the Princeton sprint football team lost to Mansfield State on Friday, 23-16. That might not seem like news until you realize the Tigers:

• haven't beaten a varsity team in 13 years
• finished with more yards than an opponent for the first time since 2004
• had a lead for the first time since 2009

Thanks for a link to the Daily Princetonian story.

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It's gray and windy here today with a very good chance of rain during this afternoon's Big Green practice, a rarity this season. Rain or shine, BGA Premium will be there so check in tonight for a few thoughts from Coach Buddy Teevens about what the video from Saturday's game showed or confirmed as well as a practice report.