Tuesday News Day

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The offshore wise guys have installed Yale as a 2.5 point favorite over Dartmouth in Friday night's nationally televised (if you get ESPNU) game in New Haven. Elsewhere in the Ivy League and among Dartmouth opponents:

Princeton is a 26-point favorite at home against Lehigh
Columbia is a 26-point favorite at home against Marist
Harvard is a 5-point favorite at Cornell
Penn is a 3-point favorite at Sacred Heart
Brown is a 21.5-point underdog at Rhode Island

Georgetown is a 6.5 point underdog at Fordham
Holy Cross is an 11-point underdog at New Hampshire

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STATS Top 25
1 North Dakota State (4-0)
2 James Madison (4-1)
3 South Dakota State (2-1)
4 Kennesaw State (4-1)
5 Eastern Washington (4-1)
6 Weber State (3-1)
7 Wofford (3-1)
8 Jacksonville State (3-1)
9 McNeese (4-1)
10 Elon (3-1)
11 North Carolina A&T (4-1)
12 Nicholls (3-2)
13 Stony Brook (4-1)
14 Montana (4-1)
15 Illinois State (3-1)
16 UC Davis (3-1)
17 Sam Houston State (2-2)
18 Rhode Island (3-1)
19 Villanova (3-2)
20 Central Arkansas (2-2)
21 Colgate (4-0)
22 UNI (2-2)
23 Towson (3-1)
24 Missouri State (3-1)
25 Maine (2-2)
Others: Chattanooga (254) , ETSU (224) , Princeton (187) , South Dakota (162) , Western Illinois (80) , Montana State (70) , North Dakota (65) , Idaho State (54) , Yale (46) , Dartmouth (27) , Sacramento State (23) , Tennessee State (21) , Prairie View A&M (14) , Delaware (9) , Harvard (7) , Mercer (4) , Howard (2)

Coaches Top 25
1 North Dakota State 4-0
2 James Madison 4-1
3 Kennesaw State 4-1
T4 Eastern Washington 4-1
T4 South Dakota State 2-1
6 Wofford 3-1
7 Weber State 3-1
8 Jacksonville State 3-1
9 Elon 3-1
10 McNeese 4-1
11 North Carolina A&T 4-1
12 Nicholls 3-2
13 Stony Brook 4-1
14 Illinois State 3-1
15 Montana 4-1
16 Sam Houston State 2-2
17 Rhode Island 3-1
18 Central Arkansas 2-2
19 Villanova 3-2
20 Colgate 4-0
21 UC Davis 3-1
22 Northern Iowa 2-2
23 Princeton 3-0
24 Towson 3-1
25 Maine 2-2
Dropped out: Chattanooga (24)

Others Receiving Votes: East Tennessee State, 17; South Dakota, 15; Chattanooga, 14; Missouri State, 13; Western Illinois, 10; Sacramento State, 7; Southeastern Louisiana, 5; Yale, 4; Dartmouth, 3; Montana State, 3; Delaware, 2; Idaho State, 2; Harvard, 1; Tennessee State, 1.

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By now if you open a newspaper sports section or go online to read sports you've likely seen stories citing a Journal of the American Medical Association report about the efficacy of the Ivy League change in kickoff rules in reducing the incidence of concussion. (The Ivies moved the kickoff from the 35 to the 40 to encourage more touchbacks and moved the touchback line from the 25 to the 20 to reward kicks into the end zone.)

Rather than link to all the stories out there, here's a link to the JAMA Network Research Letter. Interestingly, both the New York Times report and the FootballScoop used photos from Dartmouth games to accompany their stories:

Probably not a kickoff ;-)

It's the Columbia team coming out of Dartmouth's Davis Varsity House.