It's game day . . . finally!
The forecast for kickoff at Valparaiso is 82 degrees with full sun and just a light breeze.
To stream the Dartmouth game for free on ESPN3 CLICK HERE. In most cases you'll need to be signed in with your TV provider so hop on it and dig out that username and password before you miss the kickoff at 2 p.m. Eastern!
If you haven't already, be sure to check BGA Premium for an in depth look at Valparaiso-Dartmouth as well as the first of this year's Fearful Forecasts HERE.
Dartmouth comes into the game as a 30-point favorite over the 0-2 Beacons. Elsewhere around the Ivy League:
Princeton is favored by 22.5 points at Lehigh
Columbia is favored by a 18.5 points over Marist
Harvard is favored by 13 points at Georgetown
Penn is favored by 7.5 points at Bucknell
Yale is favored by 9 points over Holy Cross
VMI is favored by 1.5 points at Cornell
Rhode Island is favored by 6.5 points over Brown
There's not much to it, but the Ivy League has a release of sorts about the start of the season HERE.
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Our local daily takes a look at the outsized role Spencer Brown, Dartmouth's strength and conditioning coach, had in helping the Big Green stay ready for football during a pandemic and time away from campus. (LINK)
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Pennsylvania's Reading Eagle has a story about a big game turned in last night by a quarterback/athlete who is headed this way. From the story (LINK):
Logan Klitsch ran for four touchdowns and passed for three, leading Conrad Weiser to a thrilling 52-38 victory over Fleetwood in a Berks Football League Section 2 opener Friday night at Robesonia. . . .
Klitsch, who committed to Dartmouth earlier this week, completed 15-of-19 passes for 316 yards and carried 19 times for 145 yards for the Scouts (3-1).
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Headline on a FootballScoop story: FCS coach offers to buy beer for anyone who attends this weekend's game. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
If you have a dog this probably won't surprise you, but it continues to amaze me.
Sunrise here at the Summer Solstice was 5:05 a.m. If I was still in bed back then Griff the Wonder Dog would stand up at my bedside at 5:55 and start whimpering that it was time for our day to start.
Sunrise yesterday was 6:33. You'd think since he waited until well after sunrise in the spring to wake me that he'd do the same thing this time of year. Yeah, sure. Wanna guess what time it was when he was standing there staring me down with those big brown eyes? Yup, it was 5:55. His sense of time is uncanny.
