8. Brown
7. Cornell6. Penn5. Columbia4. Harvard3. Yale2. Princeton1. Dartmouth
Green Alert Take: You can quibble with the algorithm (if you can find it or understand it) and you can quibble with whether a particular team should be a spot or two higher or a spot or two lower. But here are two things you cannot quibble with. First, did you ever think you would see the day when Penn was ranked sixth and lower than Columbia, regardless of who is doing the ranking? And second, could you imagine just a few years ago that Harvard would be a middle-of-the-pack program? Didn't think so.
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He played 71 special teams snaps over the final six games, with most of his snaps coming on kick return, kick coverage and field goal block.
Lalos also played 72 snaps on the defensive line, playing on both edges and finishing with five tackles, one pass defended, an interception and a fumble recovery.
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The latest FCS team to call off spring football is Dayton of the Pioneer Football League. From the team website (LINK):
"Our AD Neil Sullivan and I considered a myriad of complex COVID-related factors that influenced our decision to focus on the fall of 2021. First and foremost was the physiological demands of football and the experience of our student-athletes," said Flyer head coach Rick Chamberlin. "In total and together, we felt this was the best decision for our football program. We look forward to quality winter and spring development programs and we are excited about the fall 2021 season."
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The Dartmouth has a story headlined, Facing rising COVID-19 cases, College warns of potential restrictions for winter term. From the story (LINK):
“If conditions stay as they are today, and if the number of cases per capita doesn’t increase beyond where it is now and begins to settle back toward levels that we had in the fall, there will be no change in operations in winter term — none, period,” (Provost Joseph) Helble said.
And if not?
In his email to students, Helble wrote that an increase in COVID-19 cases could potentially result in common spaces, such as the Top of the Hop and the Collis Center, being significantly restricted or closed. Similarly, access to outdoor activities, including ice skating on the new rink, fire pits and buses to the Dartmouth Skiway may become unavailable. Classes with an in-person component may shift to fully remote instruction, and students may be asked to pick up all of their meals instead of having the option to dine in at Class of 1953 Commons, which was available for students at the end of fall term.
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EXTRA POINT
From the Jan. 27, 2007 BGA Daily:
We used to have an outdoor digital thermometer that radioed the temperature inside. I was amazed several years ago at how often it bottomed out at 24.9 below zero. Eventually, I got suspicious and emailed the manufacturer. According to the response I received, the problem was with the batteries in the outdoor monitor and wouldn't matter what batteries we tried, it would never register colder than 24.9 below.
That hasn't been a problem this year. We've had just two days when the temperature even dipped its toes below zero this winter and then only barely. Single digits above zero have been rare so far in January. Here's our seven-day forecast from Weather.com:
Trust me, I really don't need 25-below zero. But when the temperature gets above the mid-30s and there's snow on my hiking trail it balls up on my microspikes and that's a problem. It's way too slippery on steep slopes to hike without the spikes and almost more trouble than it's worth when the spikes are continually clogged with packed snow that has to be scraped off.
I'm hoping for temps in the 20s until the snow melts, but in the meantime instead of my preferred afternoon hike I need to hit the trail each day before the snow softens. Which is my way of saying . . . I better get going. BW out ;-)
