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Worth noting is that in addition to being carried by the online subscription ESPN+ service, the game will be broadcast on NBC Sports Boston and NBC Sports Philadelphia+.
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Not surprisingly, the Dartmouth-Princeton showdown is the FCS national Game of the Week per STATS. From the story:Prediction: Next year's game will be played at Yankee Stadium as part of the 150th anniversary of college football (Princeton and Rutgers met in the first game in 1869), but it will be hard to match the magnitude of this year's matchup. Princeton, 31-24.
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Checking in with the Offshore Wise Guys, the "line" has moved on Dartmouth-Princeton. The Tigers opened as nine-point favorites and are now favored by seven.
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On the Princeton Tigers Football posting by Jay Greenberg under the headline In a Game Worth the Wait, Patience Will Prevail, Princeton coach Bob Surace is quoted saying of Dartmouth:“I can’t recall any team better in eight years. And we have played playoff teams.”More from the posting, which offers a detailed analysis of the Big Green:
Considering how remarkably healthy both these teams remain in Week Eight, as dominant as these defenses have been, the game certainly doesn’t figure to be 54-44 this time. But all due respect for what Dartmouth has earned, it hasn’t faced a choose-your-poison combination of playmakers like John Lovett, Charlie Volker, Carlson and Horsted.
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Town Topics, the Princeton weekly newspaper, does a nice job covering the Princeton football team and its look back at the Tigers' 66-0 win over Cornell last week included this (LINK):Wearing a splint on his left arm, (Princeton quarterback John) Lovett played through pain in his second game back after sitting out the Brown game on October 13.
“Injuries are part of the game, I am not going to let that keep me out,” said Lovett.
Having been out all of the 2017 season due to injury, Lovett is savoring his return to the field this fall.
“It is incredible; I love this game more than anything,” said Lovett, the Ivy league Offensive Player of the Year in 2016 who has rushed for 608 yards and eight touchdown and passed for 1,272 yards and 14 touchdowns this fall. “It is my passion to be back here with my team. It feels great. I am excited to be out on the field and do the best I can to help us.”
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The Alliance of American Football league will have its “Protect or Pick” quarterback draft shown live on CBS Sports on Nov. 27. From a story about the draft:Quarterbacks have been allocated by region based on where they played college football or last NFL/CFL team. If they went to school outside of an Alliance team’s area the player will essentially be a free agent.Why might you want to check out the draft? More from the story:
The Arizona Hotshots have three quarterbacks that have been allocated to them: including Mike Bercovici, who played at Arizona State, the San Diego and later the Los Angeles Chargers and the Arizona Cardinals; Jack Henegan, who went to Dartmouth and last appeared on the San Francisco 49ers roster in training camp; and Alek Torgersen, who went to Penn and had stints with the Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions and Cardinals.Find the story HERE.
