Got Questions?

This is a last-minute idea but with the Ivy League season opening up for the Big Green this week, I thought I'd see if you have any interest in a Questions For Coach post on BGA Overtime. If I get enough good questions, I'll ask them of Sammy McCorkle after Wednesday's practice and post the Q&A Wednesday night. Again, this is short notice so if you have questions, email them this way today!

Click HERE to send along a question and I'll ask it for you. The only restriction would be that you not ask about playing time for individual players.

A reminder that the Q&A will only go up if enough interesting questions are submitted.

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I don't often cannibalize BGA Overtime for this page but I thought those of you who don't visit the other site regularly might find these numbers interesting.

Here is what two data-driven services found when ranking the strength of schedule for Ivy League teams based only on their first two opponents:

Massey (link)
26. Dartmouth
31. Cornell
83. Yale
84. Penn
93. Harvard
95. Brown
97. Princeton
106. Columbia

Warren Nolan (link)
12. Dartmouth
37. Penn
46. Cornell
88. Brown
102. Princeton
103. Yale
117. Harvard
127. Columbia

Green Alert Take: There are 128 FCS schools in those rankings. Here's what I wrote last night over on Overtime."Debate the merits of each system if you must, they certainly agree that 0-2 Dartmouth has had the toughest schedule and 2-0 Columbia the easiest."

Oh yeah, the schedule musing was part of last night's Your Mileage May Vary After Monmouth posting on BGA Overtime. Tonight the two curmudgeons will visit the site again with their weekly conversation.

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The ONNJ site has a story headlined Unpacking Monmouth University’s 31-28 Comeback Win At Dartmouth HERE.

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Myles Craddock’s First Career 100 Yard Game!#GoBigGreen | #TheWoods pic.twitter.com/x0mEWgUM2K

— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) September 28, 2026

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Still no story in The Dartmouth, but The Daily Pennsylvanian is already looking ahead to this week's matchup with predictions for the game HERE.

Spoiler alert: The four pickers are split down the middle with Penn winning by 17-13 and 20-16, and Dartmouth winning by 24-10 and 21-13.

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Good news. The bonfire is returning Friday night after a year's hiatus because of drought. The college news service has a story HERE.

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This week's polls:

	FCS Coaches	W-L*	Pts	Prev*
1	Montana St. (25)	5-0	625	1
2	South Dakota St.	4-1	590	2
3	Tarleton St.	4-0	568	3
4	Montana	4-1	550	4T
5	Stephen F. Austin	5-0	521	6
6	LEHIGH	5-0	484	7
7	North Dakota	4-1	467	8
8	Tennessee Tech	4-0	429	10
9	Austin Peay	4-1	420	11
10	Youngstown St.	3-2	386	13
11	Illinois St.	4-1	370	4T
12	South Carolina St.	5-0	329	14
13	Lamar	3-1	322	15
14	Idaho St.	4-0	311	16
15	UC Davis	3-2	236	9
16	South Dakota	3-2	223	12
17	Richmond	4-1	196	19
18	West Florida	3-1	193	20
19	Northern Arizona	3-2	175	17
20	Colgate	4-1	155	23T
21	Mercer	3-2	117	23T
22	HARVARD	2-0	82	25
23	Jackson St.	4-0	72	NR
24	Campbell	4-1	71	NR
25	Southern Illinois	3-2	57	NR
	Dropped Out: Yale (18), Rhode Island (21), Villanova (22)
	Others Receiving Votes:  Elon, 55; YALE, 22; Alabama St., 19; Prairie View A&M, 17; Southeastern Louisiana, 14; UT Rio Grande Valley, 7; Furman, 6; MONMOUTH, 6; Chattanooga, 5; Stony Brook, 5; Cal Poly, 4; DARTMOUTH, 4; St. Thomas (Minn.), 4; Cal Poly, 4; Delaware St., 3; Villanova, 2; Bryant, 1; Northern Iowa, 1; UIW, 1

	STATS	W-L*	Pts	Prev*
1	Montana State (49)	5-0	1417	1
2	South Dakota State (8)	4-1	1365	2
3	Montana	4-1	1284	5
4	Tarleton State	4-0	1273	4
5	North Dakota	4-1	1105	7
6	LEHIGH	5-0	1093	6
7	Stephen F. Austin	5-0	1078	9
8	Youngstown State	3-2	1035	11
9	Tennessee Tech	4-0	950	12
10	Illinois State	4-1	905	3
11	Austin Peay	4-1	876	13
12	Idaho State	4-0	777	14
13	South Dakota	3-2	756	8
14	Lamar	3-1	702	15
15	South Carolina State	5-0	637	16
16	UC Davis	3-2	558	10
17	West Florida	3-1	409	20
18	Campbell	4-1	385	22
19	Northern Arizona	3-2	371	18
20	HARVARD	2-0	305	21
21	Southern Illinois	3-2	249	24
22	Colgate	4-1	222	NR
23	Mercer	3-2	147	25
24	Richmond	4-1	134	NR
25	Jackson State	4-0	103	NR
	Dropped Out: Yale (17), Rhode Island (19), Villanova (23)
	Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Alabama State (3-1, 1-0 SWAC): 88; Elon (4-1, 2-1 CAA): 78; Stony Brook (3-2, 1-0 CAA): 45; YALE (1-1, 0-1 Ivy): 42; Southeastern Louisiana (3-2, 1-1 Southland): 38; Northern Iowa (2-2, 1-0 MVFC): 29; MONMOUTH(3-2, 2-0 CAA): 24; Rhode Island (2-3, 1-2 CAA) 10; Villanova (2-3, 1-2 Patriot): 6; Morgan State (3-1): 5; William & Mary (2-3, 1-2 Patriot): 5; CORNELL (1-1, 1-0 Ivy): 2

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The Analyst has a piece headlined The Longest Winning Streaks in FCS History that includes this (LINK):

Additional 20-Game Unbeaten Streaks
Dartmouth (1995-97) – 22 Games
21 Wins, 1 Tie
Start: Lafayette 14-7 (1995); Tie: Princeton 10-10 (1995); End: Lehigh 46-26 (1997)

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Per a story on HogSports, former Dartmouth safety Sean Williams '26 (right in photo above) hasn't yet played for Arkansas as a grad transfer as the case regarding his eligibility and that of teammate Caleb Wooden – who has played – proceeds through the courts. Find a story HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
When I got to the top of the mountain yesterday on my daily hike I found a fellow who had pitched a small tent and was trying to get a campfire started while his Siberian husky-pitbull mix looked on. I asked him (the man, not the dog) about spending the night on the mountain and he said he'd just bought the tent and wanted to see how it did in the rain.

When I walked over for a closer look at the tent he told me it was nothing fancy and he bought it "at Walmart for like $60." I asked if he had a ground cover under the tent, and while he said he did, my sense is he wasn't sure what I was asking about and the tent was on bare ground. His hope, he said, was to watch Monday Night Football on his phone while in the tent.

Because I have spent more than enough time on that mountain to know where water puddles up when it rains, I gently suggested he might want to move his tent to higher ground. He didn't seem to in any hurry to move it.

As I said, I've spent a lot of time on top of that mountain and I'm here to tell you if he wanted to see how the new tent did in the rain, he certainly found out.