Monday, October 26, 2015

Harvard Week Begins

The Dartmouth school paper has the Columbia game story HERE.
The Harvard Crimson game story on a 42-7 thrashing of Princeton in which Harvard accumulated 647 yards of total offense can be found HERE.
Here are the Sagarin Ratings for this week. The sequence of three numbers is preseason, consecutive weeks, and this week in bold.

Ivy League
Harvard 142, 140, 141, 128, 123, 107, 88, 94, 85
Dartmouth 172, 177, 174, 130, 124, 105, 108, 120
Princeton 198, 202, 203, 157, 147, 164, 153, 165, 168
Penn 212, 213, 211, 221, 195, 202, 190, 181, 172
Yale 182, 185, 187, 184, 181, 171, 178, 166, 174
Brown  196, 198, 201, 201, 204, 203, 189, 180, 175
Columbia 240, 242, 239, 233, 237, 228, 220, 232, 227
Cornell 234, 233, 234, 231, 229, 225, 230, 234, 237
(253 ranked)

Nonconference Opponents
Georgetown  225, 234, 225, 225, 221, 222, 209, 215, 208
Sacred Heart 200, 203, 167, 200, 216, 214, 202, 196, 217
Central Connecticut 224, 224, 232, 224, 235, 235, 231, 228, 225

Last This Week
Davidson 253

Massey National Ratings
(FCS only)
1. Harvard
2. Illinois State
3. Dartmouth
4. North Dakota State
5. South Dakota State

27. Princeton
30. Yale
31. Penn
34. Brown
80. Columbia
107. Cornell

59. Georgetown
78. Central Connecticut
82. Sacred Heart

125. Mississippi Valley State

Massey Chances of Winning:

Dartmouth
at Harvard 21 percent
Cornell 99 percent
at Brown 80 percent
Princeton 83 percent

Harvard
Dartmouth 79 percent
at Columbia 99 percent
Penn 95 percent
at Yale 93 percent
In case you missed it . . .

Do check out the Valley News story on Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams. The shame is that it ran in Sunday's paper after so many alums had left town. Having worked at the paper, I understand the reasons – but that doesn't mean it's not a shame. Find the story HERE.

There was also a sidebar that told the story of Williams' recruitment. Find that story HERE.
Also, because Mondays draw the most readers to this site, and because this information was well-received, it's worth repeating that a former Dartmouth captain has discovered that the old CW Pack collection of Dartmouth photos for all but three years between 1977 and 2007 is now available for sale. Find more information on the previous BGA Daily post HERE.