The Brown Daily Herald takes a lengthy look at the Dartmouth-Brown game from the home team's perspective HERE.
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The final regular-season computer are in and Dartmouth held onto third place in the Ivy League:
This week's Sagarin Ratings among all DI teams, with last week's rating in parentheses:
115 Harvard (104)
123 Yale (141)
166 Dartmouth (157)
181 Penn (190)
196 Princeton (188)
203 Brown (211)
216 Cornell (203)
219 Columbia (232)
145 New Hampshire (144)
206 Central Connecticut (199)
250 Fordham (252)
The Massey Ratings of only FCS teams with last week's rating in parentheses:
12 Harvard (7)
19 Yale (24)
31 Dartmouth (28)
46 Penn (47)
59 Brown (67)
67 Princeton (62)
72 Cornell (66)
81 Columbia (90)
28 New Hampshire
78 Central Connecticut
109 Fordham
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In case you missed it, BGA Overtime kicked off yesterday's posting with an overview of the Ivy League's presence in the FCS playoffs. Dartmouth faced four teams advancing to the postseason and posted a 3-1 record in those games. Each of the four will play Saturday afternoon. Click HERE for the BGA OT posting.
• Yale won the Ivy League's automatic bid and will visit 15-seed Youngstown. (Dartmouth defeated the Bulldogs, 17-16.
• Harvard squeaked into the tournament as an at-large team and will visit 12-seed Villanova. (Dartmouth fell to the Crimson, 31-10)
• Central Connecticut won the NEC's automatic bid and will visit 9-seed Rhode Island. (Dartmouth defeated the Blue Devils, 35-28.)
• New Hampshire also squeaked in as an at-large team and will travel to 11-seed South Dakota. (Dartmouth defeated the Wildcats, 27-20.)
Worth noting is how things turned out for the bubble teams. Here's what the NCAA revealed:
Last 4 in (alphabetical order)
Harvard
Illinois State
Lamar
New Hampshire
First 4 out (alphabetical order)
Austin Peay
Monmouth
Presbyterian
Southern Utah
Here's an FCS bracket you can click to make readable:
Each player has exhausted their Ivy League eligibility but has an additional year available to use at another school since they played four games or fewer during their freshman season in 2022— the participation limit for an NCAA redshirt. Though the Ivy League does not recognize redshirts, NCAA rules permit players to utilize would-be redshirts years at other institutions.
Green Alert Take: A quick search this morning did not turn up any Dartmouth players who have used up their Ivy League eligibility that have already declared for the portal, but there will be some. The bigger question is, are there players who could have a medical redshirt season who choose instead to move on?
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And finally, with the Dartmouth football season over and some of you spending your mornings elsewhere for the next 10 months instead of visiting this electronic precinct, a huge thank you to those who have supported BGA for 20 years. A lot of time goes into this site and BGA Overtime, and without your help it would I don’t know if I would keep it going. So thank you again.
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EXTRA POINT
With the Dartmouth football season concluded and Thanksgiving looming this figures to be a very busy week here at our Vermont hillside home. There's firewood to be lugged and stacked in our sun room for cold winter nights. The gas and charcoal grills can't spend the winter on the deck. Ditto for the big, foldable picnic table we didn't use even one time this summer. The Adirondack chairs up on the hillside where they have a nice view of the White Mountains have to be put away, and the hammock and its stand need to be broken down to spend the next five months or so tucked into the VW bus. The solar lights lining the driveway have already been pulled and four-foot orange stakes to guide the snowplow have to do up. So does the snow stick that shows us how much of the stuff has fallen.
The garage has to be rearranged to make room for the '84 VW camper van, which will be jockeyed back and forth until it fits cross-wise across the back of the garage, leaving room for our cars to spend the night out of the weather. Before that all the accoutrements of winter – shovels, scrapers, sleds and more – need to come down from the garage loft, which is inaccessible when the VW blocks the pull-down stairs. Lots to do before the snow starts to fall and the temperature begins to plummet.
