Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Finally

If you are a football fan the silly season is at long last winding down. But before we let it go, Dartmouth football's win over Princeton was voted the Ivy League's game of the year over the Big Green women's rugby win at Army in the NIRA championship.

Find a Dartmouth release about the game of the year voting HERE (but the best part is watching the highlights below).

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Speaking of silly, CBS Sports has a column headlined, Picking the best college football team in each state entering the 2022 season. From the story (LINK):

New Hampshire -- Dartmouth: Coach Buddy Teevens has Dartmouth on a special run with consecutive Ivy League titles and a 56-14 record since 2014, and standout players include All-Americans Jake Guidone and Jalen Mackie. The success is more than enough to hold off New Hampshire. 

Dartmouth has one opponent who earned the nod in its state:

Connecticut -- Sacred Heart: The Pioneers picked up the top spot by default (in 2020) after UConn, Central Connecticut and Yale all opted against playing football during the pandemic. In 2021, Sacred Heart earned the honor on the field. Mark Nofri's squad won its third Northeast Conference championship in the past four years and earned a trip to the FCS playoffs with an 8-4 record. Pioneers football is looking up.

Green Alert Take: If this doesn't define silly – "Hawaii: The Rainbow Warriors are the only Division I team in the state, so consider this a no-contest" – then this does: "Vermont – n/a"

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The Stats Perform Preseason Top-25 poll released yesterday has Dartmouth 30th, Harvard 32nd and Princeton 33rd. Sacred Heart, who Dartmouth will visit on Sept. 24, comes in at 37. Old friend Holy Cross is at 16.  Find a story HERE.

Stats Perform Preseason Poll

2021

Pts

1

North Dakota State (14-1)

52

1348

2

South Dakota State (11-4)

2

1285

3

Montana (10-3)


1218

4

Montana State (12-3)


1203

5

Missouri State (8-4)


1066

6

Villanova (10-3)


997

7

Sacramento State (9-3)


991

8

Kennesaw State (11-2)


959

9

Southern Illinois (8-5)


915

10

Stephen F. Austin (8-4)


813

11

ETSU (11-2)


750

12

Chattanooga (6-5)


562

13

Eastern Washington (10-3)


538

14

UIW (10-3)


533

15

Jackson State (11-2)


515

16

Holy Cross (10-3)


503

17

Southeastern Louisiana (9-4)


440

18

UT Martin (10-3)


404

19

Delaware (5-6)


401

20

Weber State (6-5)


391

21

UNI (6-6)


289

22

Rhode Island (7-4)


242

23

Mercer (7-3)


215

24

Richmond (6-5)


166

25

UC Davis (8-4)


153


ARV: South Dakota (151), Eastern Kentucky (129), Florida A&M (78), William & Mary (66), DARTMOUTH (59), Monmouth (23), HARVARD (19), PRINCETON (18), Central Arkansas (14), Furman (14), South Carolina State (13), Sacred Heart (12), Elon (8), North Carolina A&T (4)




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Should have posted this yesterday afternoon. Find the Ivy League release announcing its preseason poll HERE. 

Craig Haley, who heads up FCS football for Stats Perform, emphasizes just how close the Ivy League poll that came out yesterday is:

Still, it's cause for celebration in Hanover: 

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EXTRA POINT
Throughout July and August there are concerts on the green in the next town south of here. When it rains they move the performance indoors, which is fine if it's a folk singer or bluegrass.

Tonight's act is billed as performing "classic rock." Sorry, but the indoor venue is too small for that. If much-needed rain comes this evening as predicted we'll be sitting at home watching a Monk rerun instead of listening to a Stairway to Heaven cover rattling windows . . . and perhaps a few pensioners' teeth.

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