As widely anticipated, former Dartmouth receivers coach Cortez Hankton is moving from national champion Georgia to LSU per a story in The Advocate (LINK). The move brings the New Orleans native and Georgia passing game coordinator back to his home state. A former NFL wide receiver, Hankton broke into college coaching at Dartmouth in 2012, spending three seasons in Hanover before moving on to Vanderbilt in 2014 and then Georgia in 2018.
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Add Samford to the list of schools offering Dartmouth linebacker Jalen Mackie, who has the option of returning to Dartmouth as a fifth-year senior. He also holds offers from UMass, Western Carolina and Albany.
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In addition to the STATS and Coaches Polls, the NCAA posts something called the Simple Rating System for FCS football. Here's how it is explained by one site (LINK):
The NCAA Simple Rating System (NCAA SRS) is a ranking system used to gauge team quality. Within the NCAA SRS, the rating of a team will be calculated largely by two components: a strength-of-schedule measure (SOS) and a win-loss differential (WL).
A team’s SOS measure is simply the average NCAA SRS rating of that team’s opponents for the season.
A team’s WL measure factors whether or not a game was won or lost; the location of the game (home/away/neutral site); and the NCAA (sub)division of the opponent.
One team’s rating depends on its opponents’ ratings, which depend on their opponents’ ratings, etc., based on the “network” of college football games played each week during the football season.
Here is the SRS at the completion of the FCS regular season, the latest available on the NCAA site:
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SIMPLE RATING SYSTEM |
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1 |
North Dakota St. |
2 |
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2 |
James Madison |
1.74 |
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3 |
Montana |
1.58 |
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4 |
Sacramento St. |
1.57 |
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5 |
Weber St. |
1.51 |
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6 |
Montana St. |
1.25 |
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7 |
DARTMOUTH |
1.14 |
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8 |
YALE |
1.12 |
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9 |
South Dakota St. |
1.02 |
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10 |
UNI |
0.93 |
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11 |
Central Ark. |
0.87 |
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12 |
Villanova |
0.86 |
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13 |
Wofford |
0.81 |
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14 |
Central Conn. St. |
0.81 |
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15 |
Eastern Wash. |
0.79 |
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16 |
Southeastern La. |
0.73 |
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17 |
Monmouth |
0.72 |
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18 |
Southeast Mo. St. |
0.72 |
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19 |
PRINCETON |
0.72 |
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20 |
Austin Peay |
0.71 |
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21 |
San Diego |
0.64 |
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22 |
Kennesaw St. |
0.64 |
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23 |
North Dakota |
0.63 |
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24 |
Furman |
0.63 |
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25 |
Nicholls St. |
0.62 |
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Ivies and Others of Interest |
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36 |
New Hampshire |
0.36 |
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40 |
Holy Cross |
0.21 |
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56 |
HARVARD |
-0.19 |
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65 |
PENN |
-0.32 |
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66 |
Sacred Heart |
-0.33 |
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73 |
CORNELL |
-0.50 |
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94 |
COLUMBIA |
-0.86 |
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102 |
BROWN |
-1.08 |
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121 |
Valparaiso |
-1.94 |
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First and Last |
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1 |
North Dakota State |
2.00 |
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126 |
Presbyterian |
-2.26 |
Find the full NCAA SRS HERE.
Green Alert Take I: The SRS is seriously flawed. Duh.
Green Alert Take II: Flawed or not, it's fun water cooler stuff when you are ranked No. 7 in the nation.
Green Alert Take III: Did you read that explanation for the SRS? (LINK if you missed it.) If this is the simple system I don't want to see the complex system.
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