Monday, October 01, 2018

BMT

When you watch practice all week you sometimes have to bite your tongue – or in this case sit on your fingers – when you watch the team work on trick plays that you know are coming. I was waiting for this one against Penn:


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HERO Sports has something called BennettRank, "an objective, predictive, data-driven ranking algorithm. It is sometimes called an "enhanced-RPI" measure, in reference the Rating Power Index used by the NCAA college basketball tournament selection."

Clear as a bell, right?

Anyway, here's their FCS top 25 (LINK):

1. North Dakota State
2. James Madison
3. Elon
4. Eastern Washington
5. South Dakota State
6. Weber State
7. Princeton
8. UC Davis
9. Northern Iowa
10. Montana
11. Illinois State
12. Stony Brook
13. Wofford
14. Villanova
15. Towson
16. Dartmouth
17. Colgate
18. Missouri State
19. Rhode Island
20. North Carolina A&T
21. Delaware
22. Kennesaw State
23. Jacksonville State
24. Nicholls
25. McNeese
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The FCS Coaches have Princeton at No. 25, Harvard at 30 and Dartmouth absent from the list of "others receiving votes."

 Oops, stayed tuned for an update. That was last week's poll ;-)
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Latest Sagarin Ratings (with most recent rating in parentheses).
104 Princeton (113)
150 Yale (171)
156 Dartmouth (164)
175 Harvard (170)
184 Penn (181)
197 Cornell (216)
201 Columbia (187)
225 Brown (233)

199 Sacred Heart (202)
210 Holy Cross (205)
243 Georgetown (235)

There are 255 teams rated with Mississippi Valley State replacing Davidson as the final team after the Wildcats' road win at Valparaiso Saturday ;-)
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There are just four undefeated teams remaining in the FCS:
North Dakota State (4-0)
Colgate (4-0)
Dartmouth (3-0)
Princeton (3-0)
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The Dartmouth, the school newspaper, had several paragraphs about the Big Green's Ivy League opener against Penn in a roundup of weekend sports.

The Daily Pennsylvanian had two stories. From the first, headlined Penn football loses battle in the trenches, falls to Dartmouth, 37-14; Quakers struggled to move the ball all day:
Behind its linemen on both sides of the ball, Dartmouth methodically dismantled Penn in both teams’ Ivy opener to the tune of 37-14.
Green Alert Take: Yup, that's what it looked like from upstairs.

And from the other, headlined Penn football's performance against Dartmouth raised more questions than answers; Quakers didn't prove much in uninspired performance:
It’s now three weeks into the season, and I still feel like I don’t know anything for certain about this team.

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