Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Questions, Anyone?

As noted yesterday here and on BGA Premium, with the season at the midway point and only Ivy League games remaining this is a good time for the next edition of the always popular Questions For Coach. If you have a question you'd like me to ask Buddy Teevens, email it this way by CLICKING HERE. That will address an email with the subject line, QuestionsForCoach.

The plan is to post the story for subscribers Wednesday night and make it available to others over the weekend.

Only a few readers sent along questions yesterday so I'm hoping to hear from more of you over the next two days.
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Dartmouth has cracked one national ranking and is on the cusp of making the other:


STATS Perform Top 25

1st

Pts

1

Sam Houston (35)

5-0

1,223

2

Eastern Washington (14)

7-0

1,178

3

North Dakota State (1)

6-0

1,169

4

Southern Illinois

6-1

1,097

5

Villanova

5-1

1,022

6

South Dakota State

5-1

980

7

James Madison

5-1

951

8

Montana State

6-1

919

9

Southeastern Louisiana

5-1

842

10

UC Davis

6-1

750

11

Montana

4-2

694

12

Kennesaw State

5-1

658

13

UT Martin

5-1

583

14

ETSU

6-1

556

15

South Dakota

5-2

521

16

UIW

5-1

518

17

Missouri State

4-2

486

18

Rhode Island

5-1

405

19

Sacramento State

4-2

251

20

Northern Iowa

3-3

190

21

VMI

5-2

173

22

PRINCETON

5-0

166

23

Delaware

3-3

152

24

Jackson State

5-1

148

25

DARTMOUTH

5-0

120


Dropped Out: Weber State (19), North Dakota (22), NEW HAMPSHIRE (23), Jacksonville State (24)




Also Receiving Votes on two ore more ballots: Jacksonville State 104, HARVARD 101, Eastern Kentucky 85, Weber State 73, Duquesne 44, North Dakota 27, Prairie View A&M 16, Youngstown State 11, Chattanooga 8, William & Mary 7, Stephen F. Austin 5, Mercer 4





FCS Coaches Poll

Rec

Pts

Last

1

Sam Houston (26)

5-0

674

1

2

Eastern Washington (2)

7-0

670

2

3

North Dakota State

6-0

646

3

4

Southern Illinois

6-1

605

4

5

Villanova

5-1

581

5

6

James Madison

5-1

561

7

7

South Dakota State

5-1

543

8

8

Montana State

6-1

509

9

9

Southeastern Louisiana

5-1

453

11

10

UC Davis

6-1

419

12

11

Kennesaw State

5-1

409

13

12

Montana

4-2

376

6

13

UT Martin

5-1

347

16

14

East Tennessee State

6-1

312

10

15

South Dakota

5-2

268

21

16

HARVARD

5-0

246

19

17

PRINCETON

5-0

193

20

18

Missouri State

4-2

184

23

19

Rhode Island

5-1

169

14

20

Jackson State

5-1

151

25

21

Jacksonville State

3-3

111

22

22

Eastern Kentucky

5-2

89

NR

23

VMI

5-2

89

NR

24

Northern Iowa

3-3

85

17

25

Delaware

3-3

71

15


Dropped Out: Weber St. (18), North Dakota (24)






Others Receiving Votes: UIW, 70; DARTMOUTH, 67; North Dakota, 34; Chattanooga, 33; Weber St., 28; Monmouth (N.J.), 19; Florida A&M, 15; Duquesne, 13; Sacramento St., 10; Holy Cross, 9; Furman, 8; Mercer, 6; NEW HAMPSHIRE, 6; Stephen F. Austin, 6; YALE, 6; Prairie View A&M, 2; Towson, 2; Elon, 1.




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The Big Green was the STATS Perform/The Analyst National Team of the Week. From the story (LINK):

Dartmouth (38-21 win at then-No. 23 New Hampshire)

The Big Green (5-0) beat a nationally ranked opponent for the fourth time since 2016 and posted their first win at UNH since 1969. Derek Kyler completed 18 of 23 passes for a career-high 325 yards as well as two touchdowns, and fellow quarterback Nick Howard rushed for three scores as the offense possessed the ball for nearly 39 minutes and totaled 604 yards.

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Something called SportsLogos.net has a lengthy piece on the “Lone Pine” helmet design Dartmouth helmets will be adorned with Friday night. So you know, the design is simply applied to the current helmets, which will then be returned to the Blackman stripe design.(LINK)

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In advance of Friday night's game against Columbia here's a look at highlights from the Lions' win over Penn:

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Sagarin has Dartmouth as an 18.5-point favorite over Columbia. In other Ivy League matchups the computer guru's algorithm has Princeton as a 2-point favorite at home over Harvard, Yale as a 10.5-point favorite over Penn in New Haven, and Brown at Cornell a pick 'em.

Outside of the Ivy League, New Hampshire is a 2-point pick at Elon, Duquesne is favored by 8 at Sacred Heart and Dayton is a 3-point favorite at Valparaiso.

For perspective, Dartmouth was a 2-point favorite at New Hampshire last week and won by 17.

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AP columnist Jim Litke has a story with the headline No jab, no job: Ex-coach Rolovich gets pink-slipped at WSU about the Washington State head football coach (and several assistants) being let go for not getting vaccinated. (LINK) Discuss among  yourselves.

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EXTRA POINT
I was rooting around for something here in the BGA World Headquarters this morning and came across a strip of Velcro I bought for some forgotten reason and never used. That got me thinking about the first time I remember seeing the stuff.

It was playing flag football in junior high school gym class. It was a long time ago but I remember the first flags we used had big plastic snaps and they didn't work well when they stretched or broke. Then one day Mr. Rikstad or whoever the gym teacher was brought out these cool red and yellow flags that just stuck to new belts automatically and came off with a satisfying rrrip if you were playing defense or just liked making the sound in the huddle.

Two things. First, don't tell anyone but if you wrapped the flags once around the belt after attaching them it made them shorter and really hard to pull off.

And second, did you know where the word Velcro comes from? Wikipedia explains that it is a portmanteau from the French words velours (velvet) and croché (hook). Don't say you never learned anything reading BGA Daily ;-)