There's Still Time

Check in with BGA Premium tonight to read Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens' answers to your questions. If there's something you'd like me to ask, there's still time because I won't be meeting with him until after practice today. Email your question this way by CLICKING HERE. That will address an email with the subject line, QuestionsForCoach. 

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Still can't get enough of that big win at New Hampshire? There are several key plays from the game on Dartmouth's Plays of the Week and I've broken them out for you here:

Watch several angles of Paxton Scott's long TD catch-and-run HERE. (By the way, there's an angle you may not have seen that shows he really DID stay inbounds ;-)

Connor Davis' 51-yard field goal can be seen HERE.

John Pupel's interception and the Derek Kyler-to-Joe Kramer TD catch are available HERE.

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If I'm going to be completely honest, these highlights from the Dartmouth football office made me a little dizzy ;-)

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Massey Ratings has . . .

Dartmouth over Columbia, 28-14, with 85 percent confidence.

Harvard winning at Princeton, 27-24, with 55 percent confidence.

Yale over Penn, 24-14, with 84 percent confidence.

Cornell over Brown , 30-26, with 60 percent confidence

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The Analyst has Columbia in a story headlined, Five Surprising FCS Team. From the story (LINK):

 

Columbia (4-1, 1-1 Ivy)

Coming From: When the Ivy League last played in 2019, the Lions finished 3-7, so they’ve already surpassed that win total. They were picked seventh out of eight teams in the league’s preseason poll.

Key Wins: 22-20 at Central Connecticut State; 23-14 vs. Penn

Key Factor: The Lions have held a halftime lead and not surrendered it in the second half of all four wins, and Dante Miller has averaged 131.5 yards in those games. It also helps to have the No. 3 active winningest coach at all NCAA levels in Al Bagnoli (261-127).

What’s Ahead: Overlooked due to the Ivies having three 5-0 teams for the first time since 1968, the Lions have a difficult stretch of Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard in their next three games.

Green Alert Take: I'm reminded of that old World War I saying, "Smoke 'em if you got 'em." With Columbia's upcoming three-game stretch, this figures to be the perfect time to include the Lions in this kind of story. If they make it clean to the other side they will go from Surprising to Really, Really Surprising.

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Former Dartmouth defensive lineman Derham Cato '05 took one for the team as tight ends coach at the University of Washington. From a Yardbarker story (LINK):

The tight-ends coach met with reporters for the first time since he was injured at Oregon State, cut down on the sideline during a punt early in the game and taken away to a local hospital.

Outside of learning that Cato has recovered without surgery or anything getting in the way of his coaching, the biggest revelation from the mishap previously undisclosed was this:

The second year assistant coach got hit by friendly fire — Cato was taken out by a Husky player. 

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Even the Dartmouth Co-Op is climbing aboard the bandwagon. From an email this morning:

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EXTRA POINT
During the summer the sun was up right from the start of my early morning hike. As the days grew shorter earlier this fall I needed a headlamp when it set out until the I reached the peak and could usually turn it off on my way down the back side of the mountain. Because I now need the headlamp for the entire hike I've shifted my daily hike until a little later – and today I'm really glad. It was a brisk 37 degrees this morning when I'd usually set off. Since then the temperature has "soared" to 45 degrees but feels much warmer with a Columbia Carolina blue sky and not a cloud to be seen. Time to pull on the hiking shoes and hit the trail ;-)