You can watch the entire Valparaiso football coaches show HERE or skip ahead to HERE, where Valpo coach Landon Fox says the Beacons won't be able to sneak up on Dartmouth the way they did last year.
Find Valparaiso's notes for Saturday's game at Dartmouth HERE.
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For the record, the wise guys have installed Dartmouth as a 31½-point favorite over Valparaiso.
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From a story out of Pittsburgh in advance of the Panthers' game at Western Michigan Saturday (LINK):
Here are two similar stat lines.
Quarterback 1 362-of-522 for 4,409 yards and a 42:6 touchdown to interception ratio
Quarterback 2 334-of-497 for 4,319 yards and a 43:7 touchdown to interception ratio
The kicker is in the next line:
Does one of those stat lines look familiar? Quarterback 2 is Kenny Pickett during the 2021 season. Quarterback 1 is Kyler’s career at Dartmouth. This isn’t a legitimate comparison. It’s to show that Kyler’s college career — at a low level — has been very efficient. He’s not big (6-foot, 180 pounds) or fast, but he’s accurate and experienced.
Pickett, of course, was the Pitt quarterback chosen in the first round by the Steelers.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story headlined A look at Penn football analytics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly that features league-wide efficiency charts from a year ago that followers of other Ivy League schools may find interesting. Check the piece out HERE.
There are previews of sorts of the Princeton team HERE and Brown HERE.
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Columbia (and Cornell) fans may be interested to learn that Pete Mangurian, who had a relatively successful stint at one of those schools has surfaced as offensive line coach for the XFL San Antonio team under Hines Ward.
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Stumbled across a story headlined From New College to King's College: Do you recognize the original names of the Ivy League universities? It's annoying as all heck scrolling down the page to dig up the names, but you may find it interesting. Find the page HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
Usually when I'm dealing with "stuck song syndrome" I'm humming or singing it in my head. What's really annoying is when you've got a stuck song and even if you can (somewhat) carry a tune, you can't quite get this one right. Even in your head!
I wonder how many of the people who have helped this VIDEO get 680.5 million views have heard "the secret chord?" (For those of you in the know, that's a clue to the song.)
