Friday, November 07, 2025

Tiger Time

Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle looks briefly back at Harvard and ahead to Princeton in this short video from Dartmouth sports publicity:

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Per FanDuel Dartmouth is a 10½-point favorite over visiting Princeton. Also:

Harvard is a 27½-point favorite tonight at Columbia 

Yale is a 13½ -point favorite at Brown

Penn is a 10½-point favorite over visiting Cornell  

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Dartmouth defensive end Joshua Johnson quoted in a preview in The Dartmouth (LINK):

“The main thing that happened last year was exposing the offensive tackles with their lack of strength compared to our ends. I feel like that’s a similar thing we’re going to do. Up front we’re just gonna try to beat them, play our scheme and continue on with the fundamentals we’ve been building for years now. There’s no difference.”

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Be sure to visit BGA Overtime tonight for a game preview, and tomorrow night for the game story. BGA OT went up last night with predictions for this week and a recap of what was an historic performance by the Fearful Forecast last week.

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Game notes for tomorrow are up: 

 
Click HERE for Princeton's notes.
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Did I miss something? Dartmouth is the Big Green, right?

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From an FCS Central story headlined FCS Football Playoff Picture (LINK):

IVY

Lock: None

Should Be In: None

Work To Do: Harvard, Yale, Penn, Dartmouth

Harvard took another step toward securing the Ivy League auto bid and potentially an undefeated season with a win over Dartmouth. They remain the only team in the conference with a realistic shot to earn a Top 8 seed. Yale and Penn remain in the auto bid race with only one conference loss, but neither team has played Harvard yet. At this point, Dartmouth has a difficult path forward, needing a ton of help to make the field.


A 9-1 Harvard or an 8-2 Dartmouth would have a shot at sneaking into the field as an at- large. The Big Green have out-of-conference wins over New Hampshire and potential NEC auto bid Central Connecticut State. All four of the teams in this section play the bottom half of the league, and cannot afford an upset this weekend.

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Ivy League players and their national ranking per a HERO Sports piece headlined, 2025 PFF Highest-Graded FCS Players By Position After Week 10 (LINK):

Quarterbacks

2. Jaden Craig, Harvard – 92.9


Wide Receivers

5. Nico Brown, Yale – 88.7


Tight Ends

3. Logan Reaska, Harvard – 80.1

4. Chris Corbo, Dartmouth – 78.4


Centers

4. Aidan Kilstrom, Harvard – 75.8


Tackles

3. Delby Lemieux, Dartmouth – 78.9

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EXTRA POINT

The Northern Lights were supposed to be visible in as many as two dozen states last night. I didn't even bother trying to see them. That's right. This time Charlie Brown didn't even try to kick the football.


I was thinking about that this morning as I watched the sun put on a show climbing above Mount Moosilauke. Maybe I'll think about it again tonight as the sun puts on another show slipping behind Wright's Mountain.


I may never see the Northern Lights from here at our Vermont hillside home, but I can't imagine they would be anywhere near as dramatic as the show that is put on right outside our windows both in the morning and the evening throughout the year. This shot, which appeared on this site a while back, accurately depicts what we've seen time and time again. Take that, Northern Lights!



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