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The Columbia Spectator has a story coming out of Penn under the headline, Point After: Despite football’s defeat to Penn, the team has improved over the course of the season. From the story:There were certainly areas in which this team could improve, but in a year where a regression was expected—adding on the massive amount of injuries the team has suffered—the team’s performance was not particularly poor.
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Checking in with the Massey Rating system, it has Dartmouth defeating Columbia, 29-10 with 91 percent certainty and then staying perfect in another week with a 31-10 win over Harvard with 94 percent certainty.Princeton, meanwhile, will handle Harvard this week, 34-21, with 83 percent certainty according to Massey. The Tigers will keep pace with Dartmouth and set up the Ivy League game of the year with a 38-17 win over Cornell with 93 percent certainty per Massey.
As for the Nov. 3 battle of the titans in New Jersey, Massey sees that as a 28-27 game. The winner? With 51 percent certainty (Can there be any certainty if it’s 51 percent?) is . . . Princeton.
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The Harvard Crimson looks at the Ivy League kickoff adjustment and its role in reducing concussions.
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With the season at the halfway point and only Ivy League games remaining it’s time for another edition of Ask The Coach. If you have a question you’d like me to ask Buddy Teevens, CLICK HERE TO SEND A QUESTION. That will address an email to me with the subject line, QuestionsForCoach.
I'll select a sampling of submissions and post the coach's answers on BGA Premium on Thursday. For those of you who are not subscribers, I will make the Q&A available on Monday.
