Rank, School, First-Place Votes, Record, Points, Last Week
1. Jacksonville State (24) 9-1 648 1
2. McNeese State (2) 9-0 616 2
3. North Dakota State 8-2 592 3
4. Coastal Carolina 9-1 559 4
5. South Dakota State 8-2 544 5
6. Illinois State 8-2 531 6
7. William & Mary 8-2 486 7
8. Charleston Southern 9-1 464 8
9. Chattanooga 8-2 440 9
10. James Madison 8-2 408 11
11. Portland State 8-2 368 16
12. Sam Houston State 7-3 327 18
13. North Carolina A&T 9-1 312 14
14. Fordham 9-2 295 17
15. Northern Iowa 6-4 256 19
16. Richmond 7-3 229 12
17. Montana 6-4 188 22
18. Southern Utah 7-3 185 15
19. Eastern Washington 6-4 184 10
20. Northern Arizona 7-3 138 25
21. Harvard 8-1 114 13
22. Bethune-Cookman 8-2 111 23
23. Dartmouth 8-1 93 24
24. The Citadel 7-3 92 20
25. Central Arkansas 7-3 70 NR
Dropped from rankings: Youngstown State
Others receiving votes: Grambling State 59, Dayton 29, Villanova 20, Youngstown State 19, Eastern Kentucky 16, North Dakota 15, Eastern Illinois 13, Alcorn State 7, Towson 5, New Hampshire 5, Penn 4, UT Martin 2, Western Carolina 2, Western Illinois 2, South Dakota 1, Cal Poly 1
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With final exams beginning Friday, Dartmouth practice has been moved up 90 minutes the rest of the week to give the players more study and sleep time after practice. The Big Green will be on the field at 2:45.
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From the Princeton game notes for this week:It will be the final game for the Class of 2016, which never experienced a losing season at Princeton and helped claim the 2013 Ivy League title. There is very little that those seniors have never done here.
One of them lays ahead. They've never beaten Dartmouth.
To do it in their final game would make Thanksgiving dinner all the sweeter.And . . .
The last time Princeton traveled to Hanover, it was seeking its first perfect Ivy League season since 1964. Dartmouth won the game 28-24 and forced Princeton to share the title with Harvard, This weekend, Dartmouth is seeking its first title since 1996, and Princeton can keep it from the title with a road victory.
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With a potential championship looming in Hanover it's easy to overlook what's happening deeper in the standings. The Columbia blog Roar Lions points out that in addition to a potential three-way tie at the top there's a good chance for Columbia, Brown and Princeton to finish in a three-way tie for fifth in the conference. All it would take is a Dartmouth win over Princeton, a Penn win over Cornell and Columbia taking down Brown.
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On hand Saturday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Dartmouth's 1990 Ivy League championship run will be 80 or so of the 114 members of that team. More on BGA Premium tonight.
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The New Haven Register has a nice story about Yale quarterback Morgan Roberts, who flirted with Dartmouth, spent a year at Clemson, and then transferred to Yale where he has enjoyed a fine career. (LINK)
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Heading down the driveway with Griff the Wonder Dog this morning to get the newspaper I could see snow on the trails at Killington and Pico in Vermont, and river fog over campus and Hanover. It was much more dramatic than this with the early sun splashing the mountains and giving the sky a pale yellow hue, but this will give you an idea. Not sure what was behind the one blob of fog sticking up above the rest. |
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