With five games in the books and five more to go it's as good a time as any for another edition of the always popular Questions For Coach.
To that end, after practice this evening I will be asking Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens a representative sampling of questions BGA Daily and BGA Premium readers have submitted.
The Q&A will be posted tonight on BGA Premium and will be available to everyone tomorrow, whether you are a BGA subscriber or not, so send those questions ASAP so I have them before practice. I'll post a link to the Q&A in this space tomorrow.
Feel free to submit questions about Dartmouth football, Ivy League football or football in general. All I ask is that you please be respectful, and do not ask about playing time for individual players.
To send questions for me to ask Coach Teevens CLICK HERE. That will address an email to me with the subject line, BGA Questions.
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This is also as good a time as any to take a look at how Dartmouth's players who have moved on are faring. Here they are listed by school:
UMass (1-6, 0-0)
Linebacker Jalen Mackie '22 leads the Minutemen by a wide margin in tackles with 50. (Next is 32). He has 8.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks and one interception.
Samford (5-1, 3-0)
Defensive tackle Seth Simmer '20 is fifth on the team with 25 tackles including two for a loss, one sack, one pass breakup and two quarterback hurries.
Syracuse (6-0, 3-0)
Corner Isaiah Johnson '22 has appeared in all eight games and has eight tackles.
Buffalo (4-3, 3-0)
Tight end Robbie Mangas '22 has seven catches for 49 yards with a long of 16 yards appearing in all seven games this fall.
New Mexico State (2-5, 0-0)
Tight end JJ Jones '20 has appeared in four games and has caught two passes for six yards.
USC (6-1, 4-1)
Defensive back Micah Croom '20 has appeared in all seven games with one tackle.
Boston College (2-4, 1-3)
Nickel John Pupel '22 has appeared in two games without any statistics
Connecticut (3-5, 0-0))
Center Jake Guidone '21 has started every game for the Huskies this fall.
Virginia (2-4, 0-3)
Offensive lineman John Paul Flores '22 has started five of six games this fall for the Cavaliers.
Pitt (4-2, 1-1)
Quarterback Derek Kyler '21 has yet to appear in a game.
Case Western Reserve (4-2, 2-1)
Defensive lineman Nate Boone '21 has appeared in three games with three tackles.
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The early odds have gone up for this weekend's games:
Dartmouth is a 1½-point favorite at Columbia, making it the only road favorite in the Ivy League this week.
Harvard is a 1½-point favorite at home against Princeton
Penn is a 2½-point favorite at home against Yale
Brown is a 1½-point favorite at home against Cornell
Elsewhere . . .
Sacred Heart is a 2½-point underdog at Merrimack
New Hampshire is a 6½-point underdog at home to Elon
Valparaiso is a 4-point underdog at Morehead State
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Jake Novak has his weekly Power Ratings on the Roar Lions website. He has the teams rated this way:
1. Princeton
2. Yale
3. Harvard
4. Penn
5. Cornell
6. Columbia
7. Dartmouth
8. Brown
Regarding Dartmouth he writes: “The Big Green are now dealing with even more injuries. But the defense is improving.”
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Another Sign of the Apocalypse in the transfer era . . .
The national leader in FCS passing efficiency is at his fifth college. Grad student Lindsey Scott Jr., Gatorade High School Player of the Year in Louisiana in 2015, is playing this fall at Incarnate Word. He has been at:
LSU - redshirt
East Mississippi Community College - one season
Missouri - did not play
Nicholls - sat one season, played last fall
Incarnate Word - this year
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EXTRA POINT
I can't see the ground, roots or rocks on my morning hike because the trail is covered with leaves. I've seen a zillion leaves that I've been tempted to stop and pick up or photograph. Here's a unique one that caught my eye:
