From the Dartmouth football office:
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— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) September 19, 2022
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For a program story I wrote on fifth-year linebacker Joe Heffernan to accompany the handout at Saturday's game. Find the story HERE.
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The local Valley News has a follow piece that leads with a look at junior linebacker Macklin Ayers, Saturday's leading tackler for Dartmouth, HERE.
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The Sagarin Ratings are in. Here's where the Ivies and Dartmouth's nonconference opponents sit among the 261 NCAA Division I teams and how their ratings changed after last week's games:
133 - Dartmouth - down 5
149 - Harvard - down 12
151 - Princeton - down 10
172 - Penn - up 11
175 - Yale - down 12
177 - Columbia - up 8
189 - Cornell - up 38
200 - Brown - up 11
198 - New Hampshire - down 16
234 - Sacred Heart - down 39
242 - Valparaiso - up 11
Dartmouth now has played five Pioneer Football League teams. Here's how the four who play football stand (Jacksonville disbanded its program) among the 261 teams and it's not pretty:
242 - Valparaiso
256 - Butler
258 - Stetson
260 - Marist
For the record, there's another Pioneer team at the bottom of the pack:
261 - Presbyterian
For what it's worth, Sagarin has Dartmouth a 19-point favorite over Sacred Heart.
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The wise guys have set the odds for this weekends games and they look like this:
Dartmouth is a 16 1/2 point favorite at Sacred Heart.
Harvard is a 14 1/2 point favorite at Brown.
Yale is a 4 1/2 point favorite at Cornell.
Princeton is a 24 1/2 point favorite at home against Lehigh.
Columbia is a 12 1/2 point favorite at Georgetown.
Penn is a 9 1/2 point home favorite against Lafayette.
Elsewhere . . .
New Hampshire is a 1 1/2 point favorite at Towson.
Valparaiso is a 5 1/2 point underdog at home against San Diego.
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Curious about how teams did against the spread last week?
Brown was a 3 1/2 point favorite at home over Bryant.
The Bears won by 6 in overtime.
Cornell was a 13-point underdog at VMI.
The Big Red won by 6.
Yale was a six-point underdog at Holy Cross.
The Bulldogs lost by 24.
Penn was a 4 1/2 point favorite at home over Colgate.
The Quakers won by 11.
Columbia was a 21-point favorite at Marist.
The Lions won by 35.
Harvard was a 26 1/2 point favorite at home against Merrimack.
The Crimson needed overtime to win by seven.
Dartmouth was a 32 1/2 point favorite at home against Valparaiso.
The Big Green won by 22.
Princeton was a 34 1/2 point favorite at Stetson.
The Tigers won by 25.
Green Alert Take: And what does it all mean? It means you are nuts if you bet on Ivy League football, but you already knew that. Didn't you?
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A loyal reader with ties to the University of Virginia shared a link noting that in UVa's 16-14 home win over Old Dominion "the only touchdown run of the game went to the 'B' gap between (left tackle Logan) Taylor and guard John Paul Flores."
The story offers up the Pro Football Focus grades for the Cavalier line with Flores grading out at 60.0 on 88 snaps (73.9 pass/59.9 run).
(Thanks for the link!)
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EXTRA POINT
When we were renovating our home on Moose Mountain we visited a granite showroom where a salesperson told us in no uncertain terms she would not recommend dark stone for a bathroom sink. She said it showed everything. While I was standing at the sink this morning I found myself wishing the people who built our Vermont hillside house had followed that advice. That's your HGTV tip of the day ;-)
