This ESPN graphic appeared in advance of the FCS championship game between North Dakota State and Montana State:
North Dakota State and Montana State face off Saturday at Noon ET in the FCS National Championship Game on ESPN2.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 8, 2022
NDSU is looking for its 9th championship in 11 years, while MSU is eyeing its first since 1984.
The matchup features the two best scoring defenses in all of FCS. pic.twitter.com/qZASBQbgpj
Green Alert Take: Dartmouth slapped 41 points on Sacred Heart. Only one other team all year cracked the 20-point mark against the Pioneers. That would be Howard, which posted at 22-17 win over SHU. The Pioneers' three points were a season low for the Big Green defense.
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Dartmouth corner Isaiah Johnson gets a capsule mention in a story about Syracuse and the transfer portal HERE.
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The American Football Coaches Association convention is taking place in conjunction with the national championship game and a couple of familiar names were involved in a breakout session yesterday:
Women in Coaching meeting today @ 4 in room 209!
— AFCA (@WeAreAFCA) January 9, 2022
The meeting is moderated by @CoachMickeyG and includes a 'Hiring Women Panel' with @BTeevens & @CoachDavidson23. As well as, a special appearance from @Tiffani_Sykes.
Coaches of all genders are encouraged to attend!#WeAreAFCA pic.twitter.com/RtRJT5VKt4
@CoachMickeyG is Dartmouth quality control assistant Mickey Grace and @BTeevens, of course, is Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens. This graphic accompanied mentions of the session:
John Davidson is head coach at Philadelphia's Mastery Charter North High School, where Grace coached before Dartmouth.
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The push to make football safer has seen Riddell develop a high-tech football helmet. From a FootballScoop story:
To get fitted for the helmet, a new fitting system was created in the form of a scanning app, called Riddell's Verifyt, that will scan an athlete's head to generate an individual fit of liner pads on the inside and that fit is stored in Riddell's database.
And . . .
The real gem of the helmet is a built-in impact response system, which will provide smart helmet technology for each player that will report Head Impact Exposures and compare them to Riddell's database of 8 million on-field impacts.
The helmets come in at a cool $750. Find a Riddell release explaining more HERE and the FootballScoop story HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
A little tired of pro football on the tube, Mrs. BGA and I streamed the Sidney Poitier/Rod Steiger film In the Heat of the Night last evening. It's well worth watching and will get you thinking. Heat won the 1967 Oscar for best picture over a strong group of movies, any one of which might have won in another year: Cool Hand Luke, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Bonnie and Clyde, The Dirty Dozen and my personal favorite, The Graduate.
