Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Numbers Folks Agree

Your mileage may vary but two stat services seem to agree on the Dartmouth-Yale game.

Massey Ratings has Dartmouth coming out on top, 28-20.

(By the way, on this Massey page the next-to-last column in the report, EW, is expected wins the rest of the way, and the last column, EL, is expected losses the rest of the way. Looking at those columns, Massey has Dartmouth almost as a 6-4 team when the season ends.)

Bassett Football has Dartmouth with a 60-70 percent chance of victory this weekend.
Portal 31, the New Haven Register's Yale football blog has a few thoughts from Bulldog coach Tony Reno's Tuesday luncheon. Among his thoughts is the following one about freshman quarterback Eric Williams, who ran for 114 yards and passed for 171 and two touchdowns against Colgate:
"I’ve more than encouraged him to slide to put it mildly. You can see why we really like (him) because he’s tough, he can run, he can throw, he can do all those things. But it’s not high school anymore. Guys here, when they hit you, they hit you a little harder than they do in Ohio." 
Reno's concern is well-founded given Yale's lack of depth at quarterback.
The Daily Pennsylvanian's The Good, the Bad & the Ugly weekly column has Penn's lack of turnovers as the good from the Dartmouth game, the injury that knocked starting tailback Brandon Colavita out of the game early as the bad, and Dartmouth's botched field goal attempt as the ugly. The last includes this video look at what happened.