The final NextTitle18 contest is set for the Brown game. Here are the rules and info sent along by the former player and friend of BGA who is sponsoring the contest:
For the final NextTitle18 contest of the year (and possibly of all time, as any contest next year will hopefully go by the moniker NextTitle19!) the object is to guess how many sacks Dartmouth's defense will register against Brown, with the tiebreaker being the total combined points scored by both teams in the game. So, submit both your predicted sack total and your predicted total number of points scored in the game.
The winner will receive a $100 gift card to what many people believe is the best restaurant in the Upper Valley, Elixir, located in downtown White River Junction. Don't believe me? Go to Yelp and check it out.
Good luck to all!
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To enter the contest, send an email to guesstheattendance@gmail.com with your prediction for Dartmouth's sack total and the combined point total. Remember, one entry per email address.
Here's a little help for you:
Dartmouth has 15 sacks this fall while Brown has surrendered 15 sacks.
Dartmouth sacks by game:
Central Connecticut State 0
UNH 1
Penn 4
Yale 0
Holy Cross 2
Columbia 0
Harvard 2
Cornell 6
Last year Dartmouth had one sack of Brown.
With the prediction here being that a lot of you are going to guess the right number of sacks, here's a little more help. Dartmouth is averaging 28.5 points per game overall and Brown is averaging 23.1 for a total of 51.6.
In Ivy League action, Dartmouth is averaging 30.0 points and Brown is averaging 27.0 for 57.0.
Last year Dartmouth defeated Brown, 24-20, for a total of 44 points.
Good luck!
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Andy Gardiner, for many years a talented sportswriter at the Burlington Free Press and later at USA Today, is now the sports correspondent for Vermont Public Radio and was in town last week for a piece about the resurrection of the Dartmouth football program. You can read the story and listen to an interview with Gardiner talking about Dartmouth football and Buddy Teevens' role HERE.
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New Hampshire sits atop the latest national poll conducted by The Sports Network. It is the Wildcats' first time at No. 1 since Oct. 9, 2006. Teams of interest in the poll (LINK):
1. UNH
2. Coastal Carolina (former Dartmouth assistant Joe Moglia)
7. Fordham (Patriot League)
17. Harvard
36. Yale
37. Bucknell (Patriot League)
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The FCS Coaches poll looks like this (LINK):
1. Coast Carolina
2. UNH
8. Fordham
17. Harvard
35. Yale
38. Bucknell
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The ECAC poll emblematic of "supremacy in the East," looks like this:
1. New Hampshire
2. Villanova
3. Fordham
4. Harvard
5. Richmond
6. Bryant
7. James Madison
8. Yale
9. Liberty
t-10. Bucknell
t-10. William & Mary
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Headline from the Brown Daily Herald (LINK) in the aftermath of Yale's 45-42 win over the Bears:
High-octane Elis overwhelm football
Yale eliminates Bruno from Ivy championship race after Bears blow 13-point lead in home loss
Um, yes, that did mathematically eliminate Brown, which already had two losses.
