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The Dartmouth has a follow from Saturday's loss at UNH. (LINK)
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Allen Lessels has some interesting notes about Saturday's game in his UNH Insider blog. (LINK)
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The Daily Pennsylvanian writes about Penn's 41-7 loss to Villanova (LINK) and, with this week's game against Dartmouth on the horizon, notes:The news got worse for the Red and Blue as senior captain and star linebacker Dan Davis suffered a concussion. Junior defensive back Trent Dennington left the game with a concussion, as well.A columnist in the DP pushing for Villanova to come off the Penn schedule (LINK) called the game "a mismatch of 'Rocky IV' proportions, writing:
Willing or not, the Red and Blue basically played the role of Apollo Creed to the Wildcats’ Ivan Drago — a shorter, slower throwback to simpler times ... hopelessly out of their element nowadays.
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Here are the Sagarin Ratings for this week. The sequence of three numbers is preseason, last week, this week in bold.Ivy League
Harvard 149, 116, 131
Princeton 137, 124, 141
Dartmouth 174, 155, 170
Penn 184, 175, 177
Yale 194, 183, 178
Brown 195, 198, 205
Cornell 219, 213, 211
Columbia 241, 232, 235
Nonconference Opponents
New Hampshire 84, 93, 98
Holy Cross 213, 204, 215
Central Connecticut 225, 226, 225
Green Alert Take: It all comes out in the wash but on a week-to-week basis Sagarin is maddening. Princeton rolls over a bad team and drops 17 places. New Hampshire overpowers Dartmouth and falls five spots. Harvard wins against a conference rival and slips 15 spots. Cornell loses to Bucknell but moves up. Sure, it's a strength-of-schedule thing, but it still makes you gnash your teeth sometimes.
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Dartmouth, Penn and Columbia all get a mention as victims of Top-25 teams in a column from The Sports Network. (LINK)
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Yale's win over Army gets a quick look and Dartmouth-Penn is in a list of "pivotal conference matchups," in a Sports Network column. (LINK)
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Tonight on BGA Premium, The Optimist and The Pessimist.
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Tomorrow in this space: Announcement of the second NextTitle18 contest for a $100 gift certificate to a fine Hanover Eatery. Instead of guessing the attendance there will be a new question for the Penn game. To learn more about the contest being conducted here before each Dartmouth home game, CLICK HERE.
