Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Silent But Deadly


Teams of interest in the STATS poll for FCS football
14. Villanova
20. UNH
24. Harvard
36. Penn
39. Dartmouth
40. Princeton

And in the Coaches Poll
17. Villanova
23. UNH
25. Harvard
35. Penn
38. (T) Dartmouth
The wise guys have spoken.

Dartmouth 13.5 points over Penn
Princeton 31 points over Columbia
Harvard 30 points over Georgetown
Yale 5 points over Lehigh
Brown 15 points over URI
Colgate  9 points over Cornell

How did the early line last week compare to the results? Let's check . . .

They had Yale by 24 over Cornell and the Bulldogs won by seven, 33-26.
They had Harvard by 19 over Brown and Harvard won by 26, 53-27.
They had Princeton by 11 over Lehigh  and Princeton won by 26, 52-26.
They had Georgetown by 6.5 over Columbia and Georgetown won by eight, 24-16.
They had Villanova by 26 points over Penn and Penn won by 11, 24-13.

And finally, the wise guys had Dartmouth by 14 points over Sacred Heart and Dartmouth won by 42, 49-7.
Went to see the movie Everest last night. There were four of us in the theatre, which isn't terribly unusual on a Monday night in the Upper Valley. My take afterward was that I believe I'd rather hike the Appalachian Trail than climb Everest ;-). That was a v-e-r-y intense movie, even having read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and knowing how it would play out.