Monday, September 12, 2022

Here We Go

Sagarin Ratings have Dartmouth a 34-point favorite over Valparaiso in Saturday's opener.

Green Alert Take: Given that Sagarin is algorithm-based, I honestly don't know how much faith I'd be willing to put in it before a team has played a game or early in the season. But that's just me and I'll share them anyway ;-)

Green Alert Take II: I miss the days when I could toss up the odds provided by the "offshore wise guys," but with the advent of legalized sports betting in a growing number of states the offshore guys have, if you'll excuse the pun, pulled up anchor. I'd offer up the MGM odds except with Vermont being one of the states that has not taken the gambling plunge I can't access those numbers on this side of the Connecticut River. Maybe I could if I had a VPN. Oh well, if anyone wants to send those numbers for the Ivy League each week I'd be glad to share them here for – discussion purposes only!

By the way, Sagarin rates 261 Division I college football teams. He has Alabama No. 1 and Presbyterian No. 261. In between he has:

128 - Dartmouth
137 - Harvard
141 - Princeton
163 - Yale
183 - Penn
185 - Columbia
211 - Brown
227 - Cornell

Dartmouth's nonconference opponents:

182 - New Hampshire
195 - Sacred Heart
253 - Valparaiso
 For what it's worth, among the schools where Dartmouth grad transfers are playing, one is just ahead of the Big Green and three are below:

123 - Buffalo
128 - Dartmouth
149 - Connecticut
170 - New Mexico State
221 - Massachusetts

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The FCS STATS site has a list of teams on the longest streaks. It looks like this:

Wins
8 – North Dakota State
5 – North Carolina Central
4 – Dartmouth
4 – Weber State

Losses
22 – Wagner
12 – Wofford
10 – Lamar
9 – Bucknell

Green Alert Take: I've written this before but if you want to get on that wins list the trick is to either win the national championship (North Dakota State) or not go to the playoffs (the other three). A much more interesting list would be for regular-season wins in a row.

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From the Dartmouth football office:

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EXTRA POINT
Why is it I can proof read something a bunch of times times and still not notice things like double words? (That was supposed to be funny If you don't know why, read it again.)

Here's something former Dartmouth SID Kathy Slattery Phillips taught me that I've never forgotten. To proofread spelling in headlines and cutlines (captions for most people) read them backwards. It lessens the chance that you'll see what you expect to see rather than what's actually there. It probably wouldn't have helped me that time when I was sports editor at a Pennsylvania daily and wrote a 48-point headline about Dodgers pitcher Fernando Venezuela but you never know.

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