Monday, September 19, 2022

One More Look

Highlights of Dartmouth's win over Valparaiso:


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And this from FCS Football's Twitter:

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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a general overview of the opening weekend of Ivy League football (HERE).

For a little more granular look at what happened in Week One, scroll down through BGA Daily. ;-)

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And there's this about Dartmouth's next opponent from a takeaways column in The Analyst (LINK):

Stock Down: The good news for Sacred Heart is it owns a Northeast Conference win over Central Connecticut State, but the bad news loom larger because the two-time defending champ is 1-2 and not playing as well as its recent teams. Adding in a 24-9 loss to Morgan State, the Pioneers have scored only 23 points and been over 250 offensive yards just once in three games. All-American Malik Grant has rushed for only 168 yards on 2.9 yards per carry and one touchdown.  

Green Alert Take: As noted on BGA yesterday, only 21 of Sacred Heart's points have come on offense (two were a safety). So it's three touchdowns total in three weeks for the Pioneers.

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The Analyst column also has this (LINK):

Ivy League teams went 7-1 against non-league foes for their best season-opening weekend since posting the same record in 2005. Harvard rallied past Merrimack for a 28-21, overtime win and Brown worked two OTs to top Bryant 44-38. Harvard’s Aidan Borguet scored three touchdowns and defensive linemen Nate Leskovec and Thor Griffith enjoyed huge performances. In replacing 2021 Ivy League offensive player of the year E.J. Perry, Brown quarterback Jake Wilcox passed for 356 yards and three TDs with three interceptions in his first career start.

Yale was the only Ivy team to lose its opener, 38-14 at No. 13 Holy Cross.

Green Alert Take: You can only beat the teams that are on your schedule but to be fair, it's not like the Ivy League really challenged itself with three Pioneer Football League opponents and Merrimack. Holy Cross was far and away the toughest nonconference opponent and you saw what happened in that game. Colgate and Bryant were OK tests but the rest? On the one hand, it's tricky scheduling first games against teams that have already played one or two games. On the other hand, if the Ivy League lost to most of the teams on the opening slate it would have been an embarrassment.

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I don't spend much time on the Ivy League's official football web page but the photo accompanying the weekend wrap (LINK) is an eye-catcher:

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EXTRA POINT
The little EV we bought last year has a lot more techno-digital capabilities than my last car. One of them is automatic headlights that not only come on when needed but will flick the high beams on and off when appropriate. It never fails to amaze me when the high beams go off as soon as there are lights coming in my direction or appear ahead of me. In a full year the only time the headlights have made a mistake is not far from our house where a bright white lantern  toward the end of a driveway leads the car to flick off the high beams. It may be that there's an uphill climb before the house that angles the camera in my car upward just enough to read the light from the lantern.

What made me think about this was an affirmation on the drive to my hike this morning that the days are indeed growing shorter. For the first time since last spring the headlights on my car came on and stayed on the entire two-mile drive to the trailhead. Granted, it's an overcast day, but still . . .

For those keeping score, you have to go all the way back to March 30 for the last time the sunrise was this late – and it's only going to continue getting later. But I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know ;-)

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