Monday, October 12, 2015

You Ask The Questions

It's a Monday, the biggest day for "hits" on BGA so I thought to try something new today and give you a chance to ask Coach Buddy Teevens questions.

Click on the link below and it should address an email to me with the subject line Questions for
Coach.

Questions For Coach

I will select a handful of the best questions and ask them of Coach Teevens after Wednesday's practice and post the questions (anonymously) and answers that night.

Here's about the only rule: Please no questions about playing time. Other than that, fire away!
The Yale Daily News has a story about Saturday's Dartmouth-Yale game 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
Dartmouth 172, 177, 174, 130, 124, 105
Princeton 198, 202, 203, 157, 147, 164, 153
Yale 182, 185, 187, 184, 181, 171, 178
Brown  196, 198, 201, 201, 204, 203, 189
Penn 212, 213, 211, 221, 195, 202, 190
Columbia 240, 242, 239, 233, 237, 228, 220
Cornell 234, 233, 234, 231, 229, 225, 230
(253 ranked)

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

Last This Week
Davidson 253

From last night's BGA Premium regarding the Sagarin ratings: All three of Dartmouth’s nonconference opponents won on Saturday and Penn very nearly beat No. 14 Fordham. Harvard, meanwhile, was running all over winless Cornell, 40-3. If you expected that beating an undefeated team and having  your earlier conquests win would allow you to close the gap on a team beating a winless opponent in the Sagarin ratings, you might be surprised. While both the Green and the Crimson moved higher in the rankings, the span between them remained exactly the same: 17 teams.

You'll get a kick out of this national ranking of FCS teams. . .

Massey Ratings
1. North Dakota State
2. Illinois St.
3. Harvard
4. Dartmouth
5. South Dakota State

19. Princeton
25. Yale
51. Penn
53. Brown
88. Columbia
94. Cornell

63. Georgetown
67. Sacred Heart
93. Central Connecticut

125. East Tennessee State

Dartmouth Massey Ratings
(chance of winning remaining games)
at Central Connecticut 99 percent
Columbia 99 percent
at Harvard 39 percent
Cornell 99 percent
at Brown 91 percent
Princeton 82 percent
And another . . .

Compughter Ratings
1. Illinois State
2. Dartmouth
3. James Madison
4. North Dakota State
5. Jacksonville State

9. Princeton
11. Harvard
17. Yale
67. Brown
70. Penn
103. Columbia
112. Cornell

56. Georgetown
61. Sacred Heart
78. Central Connecticut

125. Wagner