Athlon Sports sees Dartmouth and Princeton coming up as winners Saturday in a story headlined, FCS Football: Predictions for the Best 10 Games in Week 6. (LINK)
Athlon has Princeton winning against in-state rival Monmouth by a touchdown. Regarding the Dartmouth-Yale game, the story includes this:
Two years ago, these Ivy League heavyweights shared the league championship with identical 6-1 records – even though Dartmouth throttled the Bulldogs on the field, 42-10.
By the way, why would the Big Green not be granted the league title outright based on that head-to-head outcome? Sometimes I just don’t get the Ivy League. Don’t get me started about these Ivy programs opting not to be in the playoffs. And trust me, the players and coaches want to be. Oh, and the rest of the FCS is curious, too
Rant over, at least for a moment.
So, Yale has lost three in a row to Dartmouth and seven of the last eight.
Pick: Dartmouth by 10.
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Sagarin sees the weekend like this:
Dartmouth over Yale by 10
Harvard over Cornell by 30
Princeton over Monmouth by 3
Penn over Lehigh by 19
Columbia over Central Connecticut by 4
Brown over Colgate by 6
St. Thomas by 6 over Valparaiso
Merrimack by .5 over Sacred Heart
(New Hampshire has a bye.)
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Baylor.com has an entry that includes this (LINK):
'DREW ESTRADA IS A BEAST'
Dartmouth grad transfer Drew Estrada's breakout game, with six catches for 88 yards, might have been a surprise to everyone else. But, (senior safety Jalen) Pitre said he sees that every day in practice.
"Drew Estrada is a beast, and you'll continue to see that the rest of the year," Pitre said of Estrada, who had one catch in each of his previous two games with the Bears.
"He's going to do everything he has to do to make the catches. What you guys saw on Saturday, he's been doing that in practice. It's just good to see him go out there and get catches in the game, because sometimes guys don't get that option."
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From a Calgary Sun practice report on the CFL's Stampeders (LINK):
Folarin Orimolade was doing all sorts of work on the sidelines. The defensive end has been out injured since mid-August, but would be a huge boost for the Stampeders if he can get back sometime soon.
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A Virginia digital newspaper features a story headlined NFL Star Reggie Williams Speaks On The Power Of Poetry in advance of his reading from his memoir tonight at William & Mary. From the story (LINK):
“Adversity, while it’s one word it’s many different things when we’re all experiencing it. One of the best equalizers is love,” said Williams. “Family. Love. With your parents and with your children. It’s the one aspect that can emotionally bring the best out of us and the best out of our family members. Living life is a team sport. Love is the glue, and family love is the strongest glue.”
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The Dartmouth writes about an in-person Homecoming this year (LINK):
On Friday evening festivities will begin with the freshman Homecoming parade, followed by the bonfire. On Saturday, Dartmouth Football will host Yale University at 1 p.m. at Memorial Field, with class reunions taking place outside on the Alumni Gym lawn after the football game.
And . . .
According to an email statement from vice president of alumni relations Cheryl Bascomb, in a normal year, the College typically anticipates close to 5,000 alumni to visit for Homecoming weekend. However, she said she could not provide an expected estimate for visitors this weekend.
“This year, much is unknown in terms of how people will want to gather during the time of [COVID-19] that I couldn’t tell you what numbers are likely to show up,” Bascomb wrote.
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Also from The Dartmouth (LINK):
In response to student noncompliance with the indoor mask mandate at Alumni Gymnasium and some noncompliance with weekly testing, the College closed the gym for general recreational activity on Wednesday and sent testing reminder emails on Monday.
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EXTRA POINT
One of the guilty pleasures of spending time in Happy Valley, where we were last weekend, used to be a trip into downtown State College to enjoy grilled stickies at Ye Olde College Diner (the Penn State Diner when I was there). Sadly, the Diner closed down several years ago.
The good news? The iconic stickie, once described in the New York Times as, “an elongated cinnamon roll that, after baking, is reheated on a greased grill and served piping hot, sometimes with ice cream on top” are still being produced and we brought several boxes home. Former Penn State quarterback and broadcaster Todd Blackledge did a piece on the "world famous" stickies several years ago HERE.
