Wednesday, November 06, 2024

Here And There

Flo Football has a story headlined 4 Things To Know About Week 11 Of The 2024 FCS Football Season that concludes this way:

Harvard has another huge matchup this week as they host Columbia. One of those teams will drop to two losses and on paper make it clearer who will be the winner of the Ivy League. But with week after week of close games, it's hard to truly count anyone out. Dartmouth has a tough game on the road at Cornell and hosts Brown at home the week after. Columbia similarly has to play the two teams sitting in second place at the moment. So while this weekend may provide some clarity, no one can truly be counted out. The winner of the Ivy League will be whichever team is able to consistently perform and make big plays when it comes down to it.  

Find the full posting HERE.

Green Alert Take: Points taken but Columbia does not have to play "the two teams sitting in second place at the moment." With Dartmouth, Harvard and Columbia tied for first, the next two teams would be tied for fourth place.

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Short-staffed, the local Valley News is doing a weekly roundup of Dartmouth sports and this week the column leads off with a look at the Harvard game HERE. (Again, it's behind a paywall but if you visit only occasionally it will let you read the story.)

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If you don't have ESPN+ and want to watch the entire Dartmouth-Harvard game – or just until the final minute or so ;-) – the Ivy League has made the game available here:


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No game notes posted yet for Friday's nationally televised game but if you want to check out the Princeton football yearbook, you can find it HERE. There's not much to it but there you go.

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BGA Overtime offered up the weekly The Optimist-The Pessimist last night with a little bit of a twist at the start. Find it HERE.

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On the subject of Dartmouth-Princeton, the 2018 game between nationally ranked teams down in New Jersey didn't end the way the Big Green wanted but the battle of unbeaten teams was a classic, absolutely one of the best football games I've ever attended. A Princeton team that would finish the year scoring 66, 66, 59, 51, 50, 48, 45, 42 and 29 points on the way to going undefeated managed just two touchdowns against Dartmouth but came out on top in a 14-9 thriller. Here are the highlights:


Green Alert Take: Princeton may be having a difficult season but I still miss the year ending with the Tigers and Big Green squaring off. 
 

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A release out of Fordham offers the Rams' football schedule for the next several years, including a visit from Dartmouth. That sent me scurrying to see what I could find about the Big Green's future schedules. The bottom line? Not much.

It used to be Dartmouth would include the next few schedules in its press guide but, alas, no more press guides. The schedules also used to appear on the website, but that's no longer the case. All that being the case, here's what I was able to find about Dartmouth's future non-conference opponents on the FBSchedules website (LINK):
2025
Sept. 20 New Hampshire 
Oct. 18 at Fordham 

2027
Sept. 25 at New Hampshire 
Oct. 16 at Central Connecticut 

2028
Sept. 23 New Hampshire 

2029
Sept. 15 at Towson

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Screenshot from 1983 Dartmouth media guide

Joe Moglia put football on the back-burner after his final season as linebacker coach at Dartmouth under Joe Yukica in 1983. A site called The Bulletin Time catches us up on what came next for Moglia in a piece headlined, Joe Moglia – Net Worth 2024, Biography, Personal Life, Professional Life and Everything. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: And because I'm sure the "net worth" part caught your eye, I'll save you clicking through. Take it with a grain of salt but the piece says he was earning $20 million annually as CEO of TD Ameritrade and his "estimated net worth is $75 million."

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EXTRA POINT
Maybe tomorrow. Maybe.

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Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Anything Happening Today?

The Manchester Union Leader, which used to cover every Dartmouth home game but hasn't spent much time in Hanover in recent years, has a story headlined After first loss, Dartmouth focused on one thing: next game. Find the story. HERE.

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Dartmouth athletics has a story about kicker Owen Zalc being honored yet again HERE. 

The Ivy League has a release HERE that recognizes Dartmouth linebacker Micah Green, quarterback Jackson Proctor and wide receiver Luke Rives as honorable mention selectees this week.

Harvard safety Ty Bartrum was honored as the defensive player of the week after posting 16 tackles in the Crimson's win Saturday.

By the way, digging around I pulled up some interesting facts regarding Owen Zalc's impact on the Dartmouth football fortunes. Be sure to check out yesterday's first note in the BGA OT Six-Pack HERE. And if you happened to just scroll through this site yesterday without paying attention, there were some interesting nuggets about what the placekicker has accomplished HERE.

The OT will have another visit from The Optimist and The Pessimist this evening, so don't forget to stop by.

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Stats Perform

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

North Dakota State (43)

9-1

1387

1

2

Montana State (13)

9-0

1352

2

3

South Dakota State

7-2

1288

3

4

UC Davis

8-1

1213

4

5

South Dakota

6-2

1157

5

6

Southeast Missouri

8-1

1107

6

7

Montana

7-2

1009

8

8

UIW

7-2

950

9

9

Idaho

6-3

930

10

10

Mercer

8-1

929

12

11

Rhode Island

8-1

829

14

12

Villanova

7-2

799

13

13

Richmond

7-2

683

16

14

Tarleton State

7-2

680

7

15

Abilene Chrstian

6-3

650

17

16

Central Arkansas

6-3

447

11

17

Stony Brook

7-2

444

20

18

Illinois State

6-3

411

21

19

UT Martin

6-3

349

NR

20

William & Mary

6-3

290

24

21

North Dakota

5-4

246

15

22

Western Carolina

5-4

160

24

23

Chattanooga

5-4

158

18

24

Harvard

6-1

153

NR

25

Duquesne

6-2

102

NR


Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Jackson State (7-2, 5-0 SWAC), 89; North Carolina Central (6-3, 2-1 MEAC), 74; ETSU (5-4, 3-2 SoCon), 61; Northern Arizona (5-4, 3-2 Big Sky), 55; Stephen F. Austin (6-3, 4-2 Southland), 54; South Carolina State (6-2, 2-0 MEAC), 48; DARTMOUTH (6-1, 3-1 Ivy), 37; Drake (6-1, 5-0 Pioneer), 28; Southeastern Louisiana (5-5, 4-1 Southland), 13; Tennessee State (6-3, 3-2 Big South-OVC), 12; Southern Utah (4-5, 3-2 UAC), 3





FCS Coaches

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

North Dakota State (24)

9-1

648

1

2

Montana State (2)

9-0

622

2

3

South Dakota State

7-2

599

3

4

UC Davis

8-1

568

4

5

South Dakota

6-2

523

5

6

Southeast Missouri State

8-1

493

6

7

Montana

7-2

484

8

8

UIW

7-2

452

10

9

Richmond

7-2

411

12

10

Rhode Island

8-1

372

14

11

Villanova

7-2

368

13

12

Idaho

6-3

357

11

13

Mercer

8-1

348

16

14

Tarleton State

7-2

320

7

15

Missouri State

7-2

274

17

16

ACU

6-3

249

18

17

Illinois State

6-3

224

19

18

Stony Brook

7-2

202

20

19

Central Arkansas

6-3

201

9

20

Jackson State

7-2

144

23

21

William & Mary

6-3

134

24

22

UT Martin

6-3

99

NR

23

North Dakota

5-4

83

15

24

Duquesne

6-2

71

NR

25

Harvard

6-1

27

NR


Others Receiving Votes:  South Carolina St., 23; North Carolina Central, 22; DARTMOUTH, 18; Butler, 16; Stephen F. Austin, 15; Florida A&M, 14; Austin Peay, 11; Drake, 11; Columbia, 9; Western Carolina, 9; Chattanooga, 7; Northern Arizona, 7; Robert Morris, 6; Tennessee St., 4; Indiana St., 3; Lamar, 1; Southeastern Louisiana, 1.





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Sagarin has Dartmouth as a six-point favorite at Princeton this Friday and Harvard as an 11-point home favorite over Columbia in a battle of the other one-loss Ivy League teams.

The unofficial FCS Sportsbook has Dartmouth as a 10-point favorite.

Massey has Dartmouth defeating Princeton, 28-24, wit 64 percent confidence.

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EXTRA POINT
If I had my druthers I would hide away the next few days in the tiny house where Mrs. BGA, Griff the Wonder Dog and I spent our last summer before moving to Vermont. With no electricity, no TV and no internet – and steadfastly refusing to listen to the radio – I'd be blissfully unaware of all the wild speculation being spewed by network talking heads, podcasters, bloggers and the like until the craziness is over. ... If it's ever over.

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