Columbia's game notes for Saturday's matchup with Dartmouth have been posted here.
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The Roar Lions blog offers an exhaustive analysis of the Big Green in anticipation of Columbia's trip north.
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The Columbia Spectator writes about Dartmouth tailback Dominick Pierre. Lions coach Pete Mangurian describes the Ivy League's leading rusher this way:
“He’s big, he’s powerful, he can break tackles at the line of scrimmage, and once he gets out in the open he’s hard to catch. He’s the total package.”
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The Sports Network writes about Super Saturday matchups, including a couple in the Ivy League. From TSN:
Princeton (4-1, 2-0) at Harvard (5-0, 2-0) - Princeton ranks No. 1 in the league in scoring as well as No. 3 nationally at 42.4 points per game. The last time the Tigers finished as the Ivy scoring leader was 1988, when Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett was the league's most valuable player at quarterback.
Yale (3-2, 1-1) at Penn (3-2, 2-0) - The Quakers won an outright Ivy championship last year despite losing to a last-place Yale squad.The Sports Networks' picks this weekend:
- Dartmouth over Columbia
- Brown over Cornell
- Princeton over Harvard
- Penn over Yale
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The Gridiron Power Index for the FCS (think BCS standings) has been released and the surprise is probably that while Penn is 2-0 in the Ivy League it is ranked fifth in the conference with a big gap until Dartmouth at sixth:
22. Harvard (23.57)
28. Princeton (27.71)
47. Brown (41.71)
49T. Yale (44.29)
54. Penn (46.86)
78. Dartmouth (63.14)
99. Cornell (78.71)
116. Columbia (89.57)
72. Holy Cross (60.29)
85. Butler (67.57)
109. Bucknell (83.29)
