From a Craig Haley column on STATS Perform's The Analyst page under the headline, FCS Football Review: Week 10 Takeaways comes this (LINK):
Dartmouth sets four-season wins record
Dartmouth handed No. 20 Princeton its first loss of the season 31-7, which left both teams at 7-1 and tied atop the Ivy League standings at 4-1. Quarterback Derek Kyler threw three touchdown passes, while defensive end Shane Cokes collected 2.5 of the Big Green’s six sacks and cornerback Isaiah Johnson scored on a 75-yard interception return. Their 14 super seniors whose careers began in 2017 have produced the most wins (33) over any four consecutive seasons in program history, and their .868 winning percentage (33-5) in that time is the second-highest in the FCS to North Dakota State (.923, 60-5).
Green Alert Take: That the Big Green's record over four seasons is up there with the best wasn't nearly as much of a surprise as discovering that North Dakota State's four-year players had appeared in 27 more games than Dartmouth's seniors. How is that even possible? Yeah, I know. Eleven-game regular seasons and deep runs into the playoffs. But still, 27 more games?
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The local Valley News has a follow on Dartmouth-Princeton HERE.
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The Dartmouth has a story about the game HERE.
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TigerBlog looks at Saturday's game and why the Tigers have to put the game behind them HERE.
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Standout Princeton tailback Collin Eaddy, injured Friday night and taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Tweeted HERE that his surgery was a success. Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens visited him a DHMC.
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If you missed the Dartmouth-Princeton broadcast, don't have ESPN+ or simply want to save the recording for posterity with one of the free apps that enable downloading of YouTube videos, you are in luck. But you might want to hurry. Someone posted the full game HERE and the guess is that at some point it's going to get yanked down.
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This is adopted from BGA Premium's Sunday Six Pack of thoughts and observations after Dartmouth's 31-7 win over Princeton Saturday. The legwork was done by a loyal BGA reader. He pointed out that a four-way tie for the Ivy League title is still possible. The only significant upset necessary would be a Dartmouth stumble against either Cornell this week, or Brown next week.
If the Big Green loses either of its last two game (and this scenario works with a loss in either, but for argument’s sake Cornell will be the one used here) there will be a four-way tie for the title if . . .
This happens Saturday:
Yale beats Princeton. (Yale goes to 5-1, Princeton to 4-2)
Harvard beats Penn (Harvard to 4-2)
Cornell beats Dartmouth (Dartmouth to 4-2)
And this happens next week:
Harvard beats Yale (Harvard goes to 5-2, Yale to 5-2)
Princeton beats Penn (Princeton to 5-2)
Dartmouth beats Brown (Dartmouth to 5-2)
Then the Ivy League champion would be:
Dartmouth 5-2
Yale 5-2
Harvard 5-2
Princeton 5-2
(Should Dartmouth sweep its final two games and the rest go as noted above, Dartmouth would win the title outright.)
A four-way championship has never happened. Could it? The only result in the above scenario that is hard to imagine would be Dartmouth losing one of its final two, but keep in mind the undefeated Big Green lost to Cornell on Memorial Field two years ago, and the Big Red is coming off a win at Penn.
Editor’s Note: The closest the Ivy League has come to having half of its teams tie for the title came in 1995. How close did it come? Real, real close.
Princeton kicked an 18-yard field goal on the final play of the Nov. 18, 1995 game at Dartmouth to earn a 10-10 tie. If that kick had been blocked or flubbed, Dartmouth, Princeton, Cornell and Penn would have all shared the title. Instead, the standings looked like this:
Princeton 5-1-1
Cornell 5-2-0
Penn 5-2-0
Dartmouth 4-2-1
Columbia 3-4-0
Brown 2-5-0
Yale 2-5-0
Harvard 1-6-0
A scenario I wrote up for the newspaper with three weeks left in the season played out exactly as I thought it might – except for the tie at the end.
That tie, by the way, was the last one in FCS history with the NCAA introducing the tiebreaker the next year.
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EXTRA POINT
Mrs. BGA and I drove past this sign yesterday. We both laughed and said we had to turn around and get a snap of it:
