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The Dartmouth football office turned out this video from the trip to Valparaiso. It begins with the flight to South Bend, Ind., and the visit to Notre Dame Stadium:

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Keeping in mind these numbers are based entirely on algorithms, Sagarin Says:

Dartmouth at home is plus 15 over Sacred Heart
Harvard at home is plus 20 over Brown
Yale at home is plus 12 over Cornell
Princeton is plus-37 at Stetson
Columbia at home is plus 13 over Georgetown
Penn is plus 9.5 at Lafayette

Pittsburgh is plus 28 at home over New Hampshire
Drake is plus 8 at home over Valparaiso

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From STATS:

FCS active winning streaks in home openers:
35 – North Dakota (1987-21)
23 – North Dakota State (1999-21)
22 – Central Arkansas (2000-21)
19 – James Madison (2003-21)
19 – Harvard (2001-2019)

Dartmouth comes into Saturday's home opener against Sacred Heart with a streak of six consecutive wins to open the Memorial Field season. The last loss in a home home opener was to Holy Cross by a 31-28 score on Sept. 28, 2013.

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The Hawk Eye, the (Carrollton, Texas) Hebron High School newspaper, has a story about Dartmouth-bound defensive end  Joe Onuwabhagbe. From the story (LINK):

“Dartmouth was the first school to send me an offer, which was important because they took a chance (on) me,” Onuwabhagbe said. “To get a football offer was something that I’ve worked toward for so long. Having it be Dartmouth was just like a cherry on top of everything — it took me a couple days to process it. (The recruitment) was a crazy experience.” 

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	STATS Perform Top 25	1st	Pts
1	Sam Houston (2-0)	31	1210
2	South Dakota State (2-0)	8	1184
3	James Madison (3-0)	9	1179
4	Montana (2-0)	2	1100
5	North Dakota State (3-0)		1071
6	Eastern Washington (3-0)		942
7	Southern Illinois (2-1)		870
8	Delaware (2-1)		837
9	Jacksonville State (2-1)		771
10	North Dakota (2-1)		753
11	Villanova (3-0)		747
12	UC Davis (3-0)		718
13	Montana State (2-1)		672
14	Weber State (1-2)		622
15	ETSU (3-0)		530
16	Southeastern Louisiana (2-1)		517
17	UNI (2-1)		414
18	Missouri State (1-1)		412
19	Austin Peay (2-1)		357
20	Monmouth (2-1)		319
21	New Hampshire (3-0)		198
22	VMI (2-1)		178
23	Kennesaw State (2-1)		135
24	Richmond (2-1)		115
25	Central Arkansas (1-2)		110
	Also Receiving Votes:Rhode Island (77), Alabama A&M (36), Murray State (34), Chattanooga (25), Nicholls (24), Furman (23), Stephen F. Austin (17), Duquesne (15), UIW (14), Samford (10), South Dakota (9), Jackson State (3)

	FCS Coaches Poll	Rec	Pts	Last
1	Sam Houston (24)	2-0	696	1
2	James Madison (3)	3-0	667	2
3	South Dakota State (1)	2-0	636	3
4	Montana	2-0	586	5
5	North Dakota State	3-0	583	4
6	Eastern Washington	3-0	508	6
7	Villanova	3-0	490	T-9
8	Southern Illinois	2-1	455	T-9
9	Jacksonville State	2-1	447	11
10	UC Davis	3-0	403	12
11	Delaware	2-1	399	7
12	Montana State	2-1	385	13
13	North Dakota	2-1	381	14
14	Northern Iowa	2-1	354	15
15	Weber State	1-2	313	8
16	Southeastern Louisiana	2-1	295	16
17	East Tennessee State	3-0	290	17
18	Missouri State	1-1	209	19
19	Monmouth (N.J.)	2-1	199	20
20	Austin Peay	2-1	143	21
21	Richmond	2-1	126	18
22	New Hampshire	3-0	105	23
23	Chattanooga	1-2	99	22
24	Central Arkansas	1-2	67	24
25	Kennesaw State	2-1	67	NR
	Dropped Out: Furman (25)
	Others Receiving Votes: Rhode Island, 28; South Dakota, 24; VMI, 23; Furman, 22; Northern Arizona, 19; Murray St., 13; Nicholls, 12; Alabama A&M, 10; Stephen F. Austin, 9; Gardner-Webb, 7; Illinois St., 6; PRINCETON, 6; Fordham, 5; Duquesne, 4; HARVARD, 3; Jackson St., 3; Florida A&M, 1; Holy Cross, 1; UT Martin, 1.

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You may have read here or heard about the Portland State football coach offering to buy beers for fans who turned out to watch his team take on Western Oregon last week. Find a story HERE and the bill he posted to his Twitter account below:

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EXTRA POINT
I hope Mrs. BGA doesn't take this the wrong way.

I miss my dog.

Because my self-imposed BGA Premium deadline means I head straight to my office to write after getting home from late afternoon football practices, Mrs. BGA and I almost never eat dinner together during the week. Truth be told, at this time of the year it can seem as if I'm almost always busy working when we are here together.

That being the case, Mrs. BGA is spending a couple of quality days at our friends' lake house while they are away. She brought Griff the Wonder Dog to the lake with her.

Here's the thing.

While Mrs. BGA is at work during the week, I'm usually sitting here alone at the BGA World Headquarters tapping away on BGA Daily, writing feature stories, or doing advance work on BGA Premium. But I'm not really alone. From the time I sit down at the keyboard until I head off to practice, good ol' Griff is either under the desk, or on the floor behind me. If I go downstairs to get something to nibble or drink he dutifully plods along behind me. He's always there. But for these couple of days he's not . . .  and I miss him.