There were a lot of weather concerns when the 2015 Ivy League football TV schedule came out and Dartmouth and Cornell were slated to play in Hanover at 8 p.m. in early November. The Ivy League lucked out and Mother Nature has cooperated.
The temperature at kickoff on Memorial Field is predicted to be an unseasonable 60 degrees with 7 mph wind out of the west-southwest. It's overcast this morning but there is just a 3 percent chance of rain at kickoff.
The game is being televised on NBCSN. If your package doesn't include that network, radio coverage is available on 99 Rock with Adam Giardino calling the action and Wayne Young '72 doing the color. The game video will not be carried live on the Ivy League Digital Network, although the audio will be available.
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In advance of the football game against Cornell, Dartmouth will hold a Veterans Memorial Dedication ceremony tonight from 5-6:15 at the Memorial Field West Gates, featuring remarks by former Dartmouth President Jim Wright. From a press release:The first plaque in the new Memorial Field (1923) was placed by alumni veterans of the Civil War as a tribute to alumni who served in WWI. The other 11 plaques have been relocated to Memorial Field from around campus, and were created by alumni as a memorial to alumni who served in all the following wars and conflicts. A new memorial sculpture was conceived as a tribute to all Dartmouth men and women who have served their country in war and peace and has been placed in the renovated Memorial Field by alumni members of Sphinx and contributing classes.
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The Gridiron Power Index ranks FCS teams with a process not unlike that of the old BCS rankings system. The GPI adjusts seven computer rankings by throwing out the high and throwing out the low, and mixes in the FCS Coaches Poll and the STATS poll. Pulled together by College Sporting News, it is billed as "a top indicator of at-large playoff selection."Here's how the GPI ranks the nation's top-10:
1. Illinois State
2. Jacksonville State
3. North Dakota State
4. Harvard
5. Portland State
6. South Dakota State
7. Chattanooga
8. James Madison
T9. Dartmouth
T9. Richmond
Other Ivies and Dartmouth nonconference opponents:
23. Penn
34. Princeton
43. Brown
44. Yale
73. Columbia
107. Cornell
67. Georgetown
T75. Central Connecticut
86. Sacred Heart
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When you don't advance to the playoffs there's no way of being certain where you stand. That only invites message board silliness like this from the Championship Subdivision board in a 21-message string regarding the Dartmouth-Harvard TV broadcast:Watching that game it was like the two teams were playing in slow motion.. . . (T)he lack of athletic ability on that field was embarrassing.Green Alert Take: Given the stifling defense they play, the feeling here is both Harvard and Dartmouth would acquit themselves just fine in the FCS playoffs, but we'll never know and that's a crying shame.
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Courtesy of the Dartmouth football office, here's Throwback Thursday (Plus One Day ;-)
