First ever Dartmouth selection ✅
— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) September 12, 2023
1 of 3 FCS players on this year’s team ✅
Founded the Off the Bench Foundation ✅
Congratulations to our own Josh Greene for his selection to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team‼️
🔗: https://t.co/sxLvRsB6dX#TheWoods pic.twitter.com/7igpYmeVOo
Find the AFCA Good Works release and entire team HERE.
And find a video report featuring Greene in the early days of the Off the Bench Foundation HERE.
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To the list of Dartmouth commits add the name Lou Lamar, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound "athlete" from Magnolia, Texas and Concordia Lutheran. His offer sheet per his Xwitter account lists Carnegie Mellon, Henderson State and South Dakota School of Mines:
Headed to The Woods! #committed @DartmouthFTBL @Coach_McCorkle @CoachJoeCas @CoachDaft @CoachALarkins @coach_dobes @TXPrivateFBGuy @TXPSMedia @clhstxathletics @vypehouston pic.twitter.com/mUFkreOo5j
— Lou Lamar (@LouLamar2024) September 11, 2023
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The Daily Pennsylvania offers up its Ivy League football "Power Rankings" HERE. Dartmouth is ranked sixth, just as in the Ivy League media poll. The Dartmouth capsule begins this way:
Ranked last in offensive production and squarely in the middle of the pack defensively, the Big Green did not display much prowess in last year's season.
Ouch.
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The wise guys haven't chimed in yet with odds on this week's FCS games so while we wait, here is how the Sagarin algorithm predicts the games:
• New Hampshire is a 7-point home favorite over Dartmouth
• Bryant is a 9-point home favorite over Brown
• Columbia is a 5-point favorite at Lafayette
• Cornell is a 3-point favorite at Lehigh
• Harvard is a 15-point home favorite over St. Thomas
• Penn is a 10-point favorite at Colgate
• Princeton is a 22-point favorite at San Diego
• Yale is a 4-point home favorite over Holy Cross
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And here are the Sagarin Ratings for Division I football with last week's rating in (parentheses):
138 Yale (133)
151 Princeton (152)
173 Dartmouth (166)
182 Harvard (176)
185 Penn (183)
192 Columbia (193)
208 Cornell (214)
230 Brown (232)
142 New Hampshire (148)
234 Colgate (231)
235 Lehigh (239)
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Here are the weekly FCS polls:
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Stats Perform |
W-L |
Pts |
Prev |
|
1 |
South Dakota State (52) |
2-0 |
1,396 |
1 |
|
2 |
North Dakota State (3) |
2-0 |
1,335 |
2 |
|
3 |
Montana State |
1-1 |
1,263 |
3 |
|
4 |
William & Mary |
2-0 |
1,208 |
4 |
|
5 |
Idaho (1) |
2-0 |
1,141 |
7 |
|
6 |
Holy Cross |
1-1 |
1,092 |
5 |
|
7 |
Furman |
1-1 |
989 |
6 |
|
8 |
Sacramento State |
2-0 |
986 |
9 |
|
9 |
Weber State |
2-0 |
926 |
12 |
|
10 |
UIW |
1-1 |
906 |
10 |
|
11 |
NEW HAMPSHIRE |
1-1 |
830 |
11 |
|
12 |
Montana |
2-0 |
764 |
13 |
|
13 |
Southeast Missouri State |
1-1 |
666 |
14 |
|
14 |
North Dakota |
2-0 |
620 |
17 |
|
15 |
Southern Illinois |
2-0 |
552 |
24 |
|
16 |
UC Davis |
1-1 |
540 |
15 |
|
17 |
North Carolina Central |
2-0 |
467 |
18 |
|
18 |
Samford |
1-1 |
390 |
8 |
|
19 |
Southeastern Louisiana |
0-2 |
369 |
16 |
|
20 |
Mercer |
2-1 |
264 |
20 |
|
21 |
Rhode Island |
1-1 |
245 |
22 |
|
22 |
Delaware |
1-1 |
241 |
19 |
|
23 |
Florida A&M |
1-1 |
150 |
23 |
|
24 |
Villanova |
2-0 |
135 |
NR |
|
25 |
Youngstown State |
1-1 |
105 |
25 |
|
|
Others Receiving Votes (on two or more ballots): Gardner-Webb 88; Central Arkansas 83; Western Carolina 81; Northern Iowa 72; Abilene Christian 51; UT Martin 44; Morgan State 43; Eastern Kentucky 36; Tarleton State 28; Fordham 25; Albany 19; Jackson State 13; YALE 11; Eastern Washington 9; Campbell 8; Illinois State 5 |
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|
|
|
FCS Coaches |
W-L |
Pts |
Prev |
|
1 |
South Dakota State (26) |
2-0 |
650 |
1 |
|
2 |
North Dakota State |
2-0 |
624 |
2 |
|
3 |
Montana State |
1-1 |
555 |
3 |
|
4 |
William & Mary |
2-0 |
545 |
4 |
|
5 |
Holy Cross |
1-1 |
523 |
5 |
|
6 |
Sacramento State |
2-0 |
500 |
8 |
|
7 |
Weber State |
2-0 |
486 |
9 |
|
8 |
Furman |
1-1 |
445 |
6 |
|
9 |
UIW |
1-1 |
424 |
10 |
|
10 |
Idaho |
2-0 |
393 |
12 |
|
T-11 |
Montana |
2-0 |
343 |
13 |
|
T-11 |
NEW HAMPSHIRE |
1-1 |
343 |
11 |
|
13 |
North Dakota |
2-0 |
329 |
15 |
|
14 |
Samford |
1-1 |
289 |
7 |
|
15 |
Southeast Missouri State |
1-1 |
287 |
16 |
|
16 |
UC Davis |
1-1 |
241 |
14 |
|
17 |
North Carolina Central |
2-0 |
239 |
18 |
|
18 |
Southern Illinois |
2-0 |
214 |
23 |
|
19 |
Delaware |
1-1 |
161 |
19 |
|
20 |
Rhode Island |
1-1 |
159 |
22 |
|
21 |
Mercer |
2-1 |
114 |
24 |
|
T-22 |
Fordham |
2-1 |
97 |
NR |
|
T-22 |
Southeastern Louisiana |
0-2 |
97 |
17 |
|
24 |
Florida A&M |
1-1 |
91 |
21 |
|
25 |
Illinois State |
2-0 |
50 |
NR |
|
|
Others Receiving Votes: Northern Iowa 45; Youngstown State 39; YALE 29; Gardner-Webb 25; Central Arkansas 17; Richmond 17; Jackson State 15; Murray State 14; HARVARD 10; Eastern Kentucky 9; PRINCETON 9; Villanova 5; Western Carolina 5; St. Thomas (MN) 4; Stephen F. Austin 3; Austin Peay 2; Chattanooga 1; Morgan State 1; Tarleton State 1 |
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EXTRA POINT
Gallup had a story the other day under the headline, Casual Work Attire Is the Norm for U.S. Workers that had me thinking back to my days as sports editor of a daily newspaper in central Pennsylvania. Every man on the editorial staff at the paper was required to wear tie while in the office and there were no exceptions.
This was back in the days when there were afternoon newspapers and ours usually hit the street by 1 p.m. or so. Because the deadline to get my section done was the earliest I was always the first person in the building, sometimes coming through the door by 5 a.m., a good two hours ahead of anyone else. It didn't matter what time of day, I was told. If you were in the building, you had to wear a tie. My not-so-subtle protest was to buy an ugly thrift-store clip-on that I kept in the top drawer of my desk to slap on each day when the managing editor arrived.
I sometimes miss working at a newspaper. I will never miss wearing a tie.
